I don't get why some people act like white dudes are this huge collective that all think, act, and behave alike. They're as diverse from eachother as they are with other races, maybe moreso in some cases. (of course the same applies for other races too). Not just with physical attributes but personality characteristics as well. The notion that myself (an American with Italian Polish ancestory) is closer to a northern European/Scandaniavan type than, say, a Hispanic, is completely laughable - especially since I've been mistaken for a Mexican person before :P

At what point do these terms become meaningless bullshit and merely an excuse to divide into tribes, painting people as "the other"?

I'm still looking forward to seeing his movie, but jesus christ, is it that much to ask to keep politics (especially identity politics) out of every bit of art and entertainment we consume these days? To me this toxic shit just taints what's probably an otherwise good piece of art.

Peele’s comments aren’t what bother me. Tho I think his reasoning is a bit disingenuous. Peele is a black man, so he identifies with a black man more than a white man. So it’s natural he would rather tell a story about a black man. The thing that irritates the hell out of me is the fact that white male directors and creatives have that SAME natural inclination: to tell a story with a white male lead. But they have gotten blasted for this, from both minorities and women.

The reason so many stories are about white men is bc the majority of creatives and directors are white men. If women and other races want stories with them in the lead, how is it not their responsibility to create those stories?

The double standards, including in that article, are really quite ridiculous.

People said Bolsonaro is racist because he said racist stuff in the past. That's his fault, that's kinda hard to put a cat back in the bag sometimes. Besides, having a black father-in-law and being half black isn't even remotely the same thing. 

"Yes, sure. And if someone said he wouldn't ever hire anyone that isn't white because it wouldn't fit the type of story he wants to tell, there would be 0 calls of racism right?"

I mean, it's certainly fair to suspect possible racism if a director never hires people of different races as lead characters. But there are a lot of directors that simply want to get a point across that stretches their entire filmography, their prolific and mostly focus on a few core concepts. This is also Jordan Peele's 2nd movie ... so ... 

He is saying he won't hire white people, may be his 1st or 10th movie, he is saying future intentions. And I don't think he wanting to tell a story that is easily portrayed with black people is racist. I'm talking more on the media interpretation defending it while it would attack if was race reversed.

"Just like that game that passed during medieval Bohemia and had one reviewer complaining of the lack of black people and that he had one history researcher confirm to him that there was a possibility that could have been a black person in that area."

And I don't agree with that either? Neither did most people I imagine. In fact if you're criticizing the reviewer for that comment because black people do not make sense for that setting, I'm not really sure why you wouldn't at least consider Peele's point in this regard. It really feels to me like you brought up this contrast as a gotcha but didn't consider how it reflected on your own ideals. Granted, there's a difference between something being more historically accurate and something being a creative endeavor. But I'm not really sure why either, inherently, are wrong. 

On the Bohemia case, it was a case of historical accuracy being criticized because it didn't had diversity. Hardly a USA TODAY history would lack black or white unless forced or talked on ghetto situation. But again I have no issue with he showing only black (love My wife and kids, Fresh Prince, Everybody hates chris, and other all black or mostly black POV and cast). I'm talking about one case we having defense and the other attack for similar stuff (not that similar when accuracy and vision/choice are different stuff).

"Or just like a recent preview of Days Gone that started complaining that the lead was a white gruffy male."

I read that more so as a critique of generic tropes that make it harder to relate to or enjoy characters. Which is actually somewhat similar in-part to what Jordan was saying here. I think as much as we'd all like to pretend race doesn't exist, the skin color of characters kind of does relate to how generic they may be. It isn't nearly as important as writing or characterization (which ironically kind of was IGN's point when they later said how great the character was), but a character's design is ultimately something that goes in favor or against a character when it comes to how similar they are to other ones. 

I can understand and don't fully disagree that he was complaining about trope. Even though for me it's ridiculous to reduce a character to just color, gender and one behavior characteristic when it had plenty of other.

Like you can make 1 million different chars being white male gruffy and all could be very diverse as are people in our life. Is any of your white male friends equal to another?

Updated thread title and OP. Thread titles should accurately describe the subject content and in the future try not to only include a link, not saying to copy and paste the entire article but the parts that are important and relevant to the thread.

Peele’s comments aren’t what bother me. Tho I think his reasoning is a bit disingenuous. Peele is a black man, so he identifies with a black man more than a white man. So it’s natural he would rather tell a story about a black man. The thing that irritates the hell out of me is the fact that white male directors and creatives have that SAME natural inclination: to tell a story with a white male lead. But they have gotten blasted for this, from both minorities and women.

The reason so many stories are about white men is bc the majority of creatives and directors are white men. If women and other races want stories with them in the lead, how is it not their responsibility to create those stories?

The double standards, including in that article, are really quite ridiculous.

Would you rather I locked the thread instead for having a poor OP and title?

Your commentary is still in the OP at the bottom.

I don't doubt that, we'll try to crack down more on that stuff (Since it's in the rules) especially for political geared threads in the future however your thread is the focus right now, the one reported and brought to our attention and the one being dealt with. Your commentary is still in the bottom of the thread, all I did was bring in important parts of the article that you are commenting on into the thread, If you have anymore issues then use PM.

yes I did. only situation i read title only is if I think by the title it isn't worth reading or talking about. In threads I mostly will read all comments before or after my post as well, you can check this by seeing to how many different people I reply in threads.

Will you deny that if he had reverse the races on his comment media threatment would be different? And so you don't use a "but black people weren't represented before" we had plenty off purpousely made all black series and movies while rarely you'll see all white for the sake of being all white. And doing ghetto on casting to have only black is basically seggregation and either don't represent most daily situations or represent ghetto view.

Also would you say that if someone made a white only nba or any other sport because most significant players on current league aren't white would be well received?

It would not make sense to reverse it because white people have been over represented while its the opposite for other races.

A white only NBA is a different scenario. Peele never said that he wont hire white people.  There will still be white people in his movies but they just wont be lead actors.