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Soundwave on 15 December 2016
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Slimebeast said:
Soundwave said:

You are one who brought it up, lol, if you don't like the question then maybe you are the one that needs to ask himself why you are bringing this up. It's a fair question to ask on the basis of your posts and posting history. 

Clearly you believe one race is better than others and should have a status quo on that basis because of the past. Sorry if someone calling you out on that offends you so. 

The "main" protagonist in every Star Wars film are white .... Anakin, Luke, Rey, even in this film Jyn Erso, but that's not enough for you I guess. 

Are you just playing with me and teasing or you don't really understand my point? Am I so bad at explaining my views?

I doubt it. I think most readers understand (I especially hope our minority members don't misunderstand).

I have no problem with a multicultural and multisexual cast in Star Wars if it comes naturally. Most talent in Hollywood is still white, and you could decrease that proportion a bit in order to reflect the futuristic vision of humanity in space like it's depicted in Star Wars, and also adjust the cast to the global audience a bit, that's perfectly fine, but if you also use talent as a recruitment basis there's inevitably going to be a bunch of white actors too in lead roles in a big movie like Star Wars. Hollywood is still predominalty white, so let the movies be prominantly white.

I don't like that this movie on purpose excludes white men. How can I spell it out for you?

Mankind will gradually, slowly change and become increasingly multicultural. I don't have a problem with that! But just don't force it. And do not delibareltly hold down white people out of envy, that's what I am against.

There's black groups in the US monitoring the number of minority casting in media and all hell would break lose if this Star Wars was entirely white, I guarantee you.

History is irrelevant to my argument. I'm in the present and looking in the future, and I am worried. Historically, movies have had an extremely high proportion of white actors. I'm not saying I want to turn back the clock and go back to those days. That would be unfair.


Is it not a "natural evolution" of films to have more ethnicities included when a higher proportion of the movie ticket buying audience is of varying ethnicities? 

When exactly are more colored people allowed in Hollywood films in a non-token sense then by your estimation? 10 years from now? 20 years from now? How does that happen "naturally" in a way that doesn't offend your sensibilities of needing a majority white cast?

I'm genuinely curious.