| contestgamer said: It's an American movie where the black population is 15% yet the production crew is a far higher percentage black for this movie. It is on purpose, the director has spoken as much about it. It's openly praised for being a celebration of black culture: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/2/23/17028826/black-panther-wakanda-culture-marvel
This movie is openly about empowering blacks, black culture and black narratives. That would be fine if it was equally acceptable to do that for whites, but it's not. It happens incidentally, but it would not be considered acceptable if a movie released with the specific purpose of celebrating white culture, having an all white cast in a fictional all white country and then calling it "white panther". It would be considered racist, because frankly it would be. However it should be considered the same when other groups do it. There is double standard, period. |
Your argument fails to grasp anything of real meaning.
POC are painfully underepresented in the industry (especially behind the camera) and in film in diverse roles which why their is conscious effort to empower them. You or any other producer/director/casting director wanting to "Empower" white people in the industry despite white people already being to dominant power, does very little good whilst a taking further power away from the already underrepresented, underpowered.
Sure, you can shout double standards if you remove any actual meaning/consequence. I.e a child hitting you, but you not being able to hit them back is "double standards" as long as you remove all meaningful context.
