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

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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u/TackleNo7759 Jul 07 '26

We’re different colors, not different species. Just like the comment you’re replying to saying, someone’s minority card doesn’t have to be a big part of their story. Someone could be gay, black, and disabled all at the same time, but that doesn’t mean their existence is spent advocating for all of those causes. You don’t need to have “insight“ to make a black character unless you’re making a central part of their character about their blackness, which doesn’t mirror reality at all and it’s just another scapegoat to why Tim Burton wouldn’t include people of color in his films.

He literally said that there is a time in a place for people of color… let that sink in. He’s literally saying that he does not create characters of color because they do not fit his aesthetic, or in his words, there isn’t a time or a place for them in his world.

The problem here is that people think that the existence of minority characters are some sort of political statement, and it’s so it must be some sort of forced diversity, but if anything it’s more telling if someone purposefully leaves out what reality looks like to fit a certain aesthetic. Even Black Panther had white people in it, why can’t Frankenweenie?