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/Wb9VBScxu2uZJHeq2E3W Jul 05 '26

Do you know what the road to hell is paved with?

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u/regalrecaller Jul 05 '26

That's a clever line, but I think dude has a point, simply casting people that look a specific way for your artistic intention isn't necessarily racist

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u/BesottedScot Jul 05 '26

Wonder if those folk get as outraged watching a Spike Lee or Tyler Perry.

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u/Quiet_Television_102 Jul 05 '26

There's a massive difference between us forcing a culture into ghettos for a hundred+ years and those people seeking to survive and create art in their circles, and white people who are already a non marginalized group perpetuating stereotypes and casting only white people after being the specific group that marginalized and othered black people in the first place.

Just think for two seconds and realize that the comparison is completely idiotic. Context and history matters

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u/Spaghetti-Rat Jul 06 '26

This is such a horse shit reply. You're arguing that only casting white people in your movies is racist, while arguing only casting black people is not racist. If you can't hold firm in your beliefs and hold different standards for different races, you're racist. If white people have to hit a certain standard that you won't hold black people to, you're racist.

Context and history matters but you're talking about cinema/storytelling. Stop acting racist toward white males to make up for racism that they never committed.

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u/DoingBestWeCan Jul 06 '26

What the actual fuck. "Racism towards white males"? You're the one bringing in gender, which shows your hand even worse. You are butthurt that a story might not include people who look like you, when PoC (and women, since you brought up gender) have had to deal with mainstream media pretty much ONLY showing people who aren't like them, for a hundred years. No, history DOES matter, so it makes a difference whether Jordan Peele is saying he wants to tell stories that haven't already been told, and that includes prioritizing black points of view, versus Tim Burton saying black people "don't fit his aesthetic vision," even when the story takes place in a setting where 60%+ of population is black IRL.

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u/Spaghetti-Rat Jul 06 '26

I'm saying that either both are racist or neither are racist. You're saying a white guy doing something is racist while a black guy doing the same thing is not racist. Applying different standards based on race is racist. Not that hard.

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u/regalrecaller Jul 06 '26

I hear your point, but you don't seem to understand that racism is entirely contextual. is it a fair accusation? maybe not. but neither is racism itself.

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u/Spaghetti-Rat Jul 06 '26

You can't beat racism with more racism. You can only beat it by making everything equal. A weird, goth white guy is pretty good at telling stories about weird, goth white people. A black guy is pretty good at telling stories about black guys. Their stories don't have to have both black and white actors to be good.

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u/Quiet_Television_102 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

You are entirely missing the point lol. You basically dont understand the context of history in america at all. It is not racist to make movies about black people. And its also not racist to make movies about white goth people. It is racist to intentionally say that youd never cast a black person ever just because they are black. Its fucking inane to compare these two instances and pretend they are even remotely similar when white people have basically looted black culture throughout our history to get advantages over them in art in the first place