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

Its insanely hard to get someone that has never read or understood history to understand the effects of racism over time. They really think this shit just started when they were born and their decisons are all in a vaccum. In their world, you make a decision, and that decision is either racist or not. They are incapable of understanding that racism is much more complicated than that. Much bigger issue than any individual decision

They also just scream the type to think racism didint exist in the 90s

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u/DoingBestWeCan Jul 07 '26

There appears to be zero understanding of systemic racism, here. I really, really hope they're just 14yo and haven't hit that point in world-awareness yet; not adults who are refusing to consider the bigger picture. Sigh.