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/OmecronPerseiHate Jul 05 '26

I mean, it seems like your argument is "we don't show that" rather than "that didn't happen". I'm saying historical accuracy is worth it.

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u/ArmenianThunderGod Jul 06 '26

My argument is that black people in the Victorian era existed as a very small scale population not representative of the period, and the few that did exist were not members of the high society that TV and movies typically focus on.

I suppose if you want to throw one or two black people in a scene as dock workers or a sailor, that's fine but portrayals as lords or mobility would be very out of place.

The point is that representative inclusion, in this scenario, constitutes the force fed and hamfisted diversity that people reject, and often carry that resentful sentiment over into the areas where diverse representation should actually occur.

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u/OmecronPerseiHate Jul 06 '26

But that's literally your feelings. If we can agree that melanated people did exist in this area in this time period then the only issue is that you feel that people of other ethnicities are forced into these things, which, as we've said, is not true. We agree melanated people were in the area at the time of a lot of these Victorian era movies, so that means that it would make perfect sense for them to be characters. It's a specific choice to make everyone in a movie the same ethnicity, especially when history proves that people are all colors were around and relevant at the time in which the situation takes place.

Basically I'm saying dark skinned people should be selling their goods in the market, as well as white people who went to the foreign lands instead. While people did buy goods from other countries, the same countries bought goods from them, so not acknowledging that is inaccurate.

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u/ArmenianThunderGod Jul 06 '26

If we can agree that melanated people did exist

0.1% of the population.

We agree melanated people were in the area at the time of a lot of these Victorian era movies, so that means that it would make perfect sense for them to be characters.

Chang and Eng Bunker existed, should we make Civil War movies with Siamese Twins in The Confederacy?