Wow! Black comedy means something completely different where I come from. It is about the tone, and has nothing to do with skin colour. For example: Heathers, American Psycho, and Deadpool (though that’s a bit of slapstick as well).

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8991716

post contains references to sociology papers on the underrepresented nature of minorities in film. I'll be waiting for your academic sources. 

Yeah I think I'm done here. There's no changing the mind of the willfully ignorant.

VGChartz, you got an infestation of lowkey racists who don't seem to see their racism as racism but 'justified questioning of the status quo', and as was said before, the most dangerous people in the world are the ones in power convinced they're being repressed.

This post sums up my feelings and why I started visiting other sites more often

It's astonishing how dedicated to ignorance some can be. My entire life growing up I was taught not to lash out or get angry at others for not being as smart as me but to educate them, to bring others up around me (I was labelled as gifted as a kid). And for most of my life I've dedicated my time to letting others know where they went wrong, showing them the right way, backing up my claims with logic and statistics and historical data...

...but more and more it's clear people don't want to be right, they want to be SEEN as being right, and the only way to do that is to double down when you're wrong until your opponent gives up and stops trying. 

I've been watching this thread, among others, and it's so clear that there is a subset of users on this website that are outright terrible for various reasons and, in the eyes of the mods, it's okay to be terrible as long as you don't get aggressive with it, but the second someone decent says 'hey, you're wrong and this thought process is bad', that person gets banned. I've been banned multiple times for calling stupid people out for the stupid things they've said or otherwise labelled bigots accurately...but it's perfectly okay to say things like 'I have learned to not tolerate people from the middle east'. 

I absolutely hate the idea that it's okay to be racist or sexist or homophobic or xenophobic or otherwise bigoted/terrible in whatever way, but it's not okay to be angry about the prevalence of people like that. I've never run into those issues more than on this forum and it makes me wonder why the fuck I keep coming around if a sizeable portion of the userbase are racist or trolls and they 'win' by not being banned and by goading others into reacting. 

Is it really nonsensical to point out that the "representation movements" only looks at where they want more and ignores where they are over-represented?

Like inequality gap complains of lack of woman on CEO position but doesn't complain about lack of woman cleaning sewers?

Again I have to agree to most of what you have put forward. And yes I find it terrible to be racist (still I would rather people are free to show they are racist and you can avoid them, than forbid they act racist so they just control themselves to not get caught, although I know I would be a minority in this thinking). Also yes I totally understand someone wanting to make more movies regarding black people POV (although in the replies here was brought quotes from Jordan talking about how his movie was to show that experience wasn't based on race by showing a black family in a horror movie, so in this case he would be pushing a race agenda to show race doesn't matter which is what I put on more racist won't solve current one) and certainly I think we still have a low number of good movies showing black people out of bad stereotypes (yes we have great movies about slave, like Kinta Kunte, Amstad and a few others, but certainly there are still plenty of movies that could be told during the period that may focus on slavery or have it just as background).

Also yes I understand why we are more tolerant to derogatory and discriminatory treatment made by minorities than white males, but that again gives the feeling of special permission that don't help out on ending segregation.

I do appreciate that you didn't try to go high horse and judgmental to assume my different opinion is due to being dumb, uninformed or closet racist, by discussing and trying to understand why the opinion is different and what background someone different than yourself may have to think different.

Race and division is quite different in USA and in Brazil, while some just assume everyone lives in USA except when there is a need to attack lack of english fluency. Here we also have a problem of lack of lead on TV shows from black people, there are plenty of great black actors, some quite famous and prolific, but still under used (even though we have plenty of soap operas that were lead by black people). One great difference though is that Brazil is much more mixed, you'll hardly find someone with really dark skin (from my experience I have found at least 10x more people with really dark skin in my trips to USA than during my regular life in Brazil, as also I found 10x more very light skin there than here). But since our country receives great influence from USA race discussion is something that is quite present here as well with the included issue of very distorted statistics. You can pick similar picture with similar people skin tone distribution and if it is talking about university it will say that 90% of students are white, while if it was in prison would say 90% black. While on reality we would have both being 10% white, 10% black and 80% mixed with great skin tone divergence (and yes I would agree that you have darker skin on prison than university, but most are mixed), in my family I have a light skin and my brother a dark skin with we both coming from 3/4 slave heritage 1/4 italian.

I won't dwelve much on one of your points as that would be another thread, but white people have been systematically enslaved and racially "hunted" during egypt hey days and some other situations, and also most of the black slaves that arrived in America had been captured and sold by other African tribes.

So you don't think there is a problem with woman not wanting these positions like cleaning sewers? But then there is a problem on women not trying STEM courses?

I find comfort in knowing that the opinion of those who think this is racist will no longer be taken seriously in wider social enviornments. This simply will not be an issue and Peele will receive no meaningful backlash, if anything it'll push the film even higher. The current zeitgeist is conscious enough to know that his statement is ultimately harmless and will have no negative impact on the lifes of white people, and the truth behind it (actively casting minorities) will do good. If that's your definition of racism, you can throw it in the bin x