Race swapping and whitewashing

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Soundwave said:

curl-6 said:

There was plenty of criticism over white actors playing POC roles, the term "whitewashing" itself was coined out of widespread criticism of the practise, the phrase goes back to the 1990s.

I don't think any reasonable person would say that Black people, or Asian people, or Latinos, or for that matter women or gay people shouldn't get representation, just that representation should be authentic and reflective of society rather than lazy tokenism.

Maybe the term white-washing extends from the 90s, but in practise Hollywood has been doing that since like the 1920s and earlier, lol. Basically since the advent of film. 

Bruce Lee came up with the concept of the TV series Kung-Fu, he wrote as a starring vehicle for himself. Guess what happened. The TV network took the concept, kicked him off it because he was "too Asian" (even though the lead role is a Kung-Fu monk from China) and the role was taken by a white actor (David Carradine). They only gave him a chance in Hollywood movies once he became the biggest star in Asia with Enter the Dragon. And even to this day, you have Quentin Tarantino protraying the real Bruce Lee as a clown-ish idiot in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood who gets beat up by Brad Pitt (lol). 

Gate keeping and keeping colored people out of movie roles for "reasons" has been Hollywood tradition for ages, don't kid yourself. 

I didn't say whitewashing itself started in the 90s. You said the response to white actors being race swapped over POC was "no big deal" or "get over it", but that's not the case for quite some time, people have been complaining about it for decades.

Race swapping established characters, regardless of which direction its in, is just a lazy and tacky practise that people are understandably annoyed by.