Quote Originally Posted by KerrAvon View Post
In fairness 'they' have been pretty active lately. Here are some examples:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisette...h=727e8626cc00

This sort of thing makes me realise just how out of touch I am. I always thought that I was pretty liberal sort of person and I have done my time in the trenches against discrimination in both a personal and professional capacity. Now I realise that I am just an old bigot that intersectionalism passed by.

Personally, I don't care if Anne Boleyn is played by a black actress. The only downside that I can see is that it might confuse school kids. If a person's colour is integral to a story - say a film about Nelson Mandela or Nathan Bedford Forrest then of course the colour of the actor is important, but otherwise surely it's the only the performance that should matter?

Again, I know my post will have some posters shaking their head about how wrong I am, but for me this sort of thing trivialises the issue of discrimination and will ultimately make it harder to address that issue.
Reading your link Kerr I'm struggling to see how you relate the quotes from the showbiz people to the playing of a historical role by a black actress. the majority of these quotes are simply white actors saying that they feel that they shouldn't be doing voice overs for animated black characters as there are plenty of black actors that need that work also. I can't see the controversy in that. I would see controversy and nonsense in people saying that accented roles should only be played by authentic people with those accents - but I can't see any evidence of that being argued by anyone? No doubt some extreme idiot might argue that but to conflate accents with skin colour and the points made in this link is stretching the point to confect outrage from the usual culture war zealots.