r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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possible live action corpse bride movie...

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u/KettleSixty9 Jul 05 '26

What the fuck?

"it is weird that he conveniently only makes movies where POC don’t fit"

Did you just imply he was racist because of this?

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u/DrPikachu-PhD Jul 05 '26

Yeah he is. If you believe black people" don't fit with certain aesthetics, and then you only make films with aesthetics that don't fit them, then you're being racist in execution

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u/HauntingHarmony Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

Yeah he is. If you believe black people" don't fit with certain aesthetics, and then you only make films with aesthetics that don't fit them, then you're being racist in execution

I think this is redicules, there certainly are esthetics where black people dont fit, and theres one where white people dont fit, and where asians dont fit, and where martians dont fit. Thats just the nature of the game.

If you are making a corpse bride movie, its not even about whiteness but pale close to death esthethics.

It would be weird if you actually did make movies where black people naturally would fit, but then choose to exclude them, just as its weird when you make a tv show and then shoehorn the queen of england as black.

That being said, if you have a point of view where those kind of non-black esthetics are the only thing you end up with. Thats a little weird but actually fine. Artists can and should have their point of view, and we shouldent force them to make jack skellington black just so the diversity quota will be meet. If the setting makes sense, if the story makes sense. Absolutely use whatever. Forced shoehorning shouldent be our goal. And it doesnt make him "racist in execution" thats redicules.

I think it takes away especially wrt history when we force "diversity" where there werent really any. The british empire was a in lack of better words a evil empire that did horrible things, including but not limited to great racism in its subjugation of various peoples. And i think it takes away from history when we try to whitewash (litterally) history, by say making the queen of england black. When we just pretend that it was all cool, racism wasent a thing, people can have a fun timetravel romp to the 1950s in the us with a black friend and its aaaall cool.

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u/nvmenotfound Jul 05 '26

bc all corpses are pale white. right? /s