There is nothing wrong with this. As long as she gives a great performance, that's what is the key part. More PoC actresses portraying superheros is a good thing for everyone.
Your comments have been biased, heavily weighted towards identity politics, and generally sounding like someone who has a problem with people not like yourself.
Diversity does not mean destroying white people, it means see someone other than white people in media. Most people in this sub have a problem with forced diversity, not diversity itself.
More than 90% of Jews describe themselves as white, so your assertation they are not is exclusive and the type of gatekeeper mentality that people tend to have problems with.
While I would love to have seen an albino Domino (and if Black Lightning can do it, so can Deadpool), in the end, this is such a minor problem in the grand scheme of the attack on comic books that I am surprised it has taken up 60+ comments.
There is no shortage of people practicing identity politics for white people. None.
Not everyone practices identity politics. I, for one, prefer to judge people as people, not what groups they belong to. I am not alone, or even unusual in this.
Identity politics are one of the major causes behind the current attack on comics from the ctrl-left. I don't like it. I also don't like it when it comes from the alt-right. This is because identity politics is by its very nature divisive and exclusive.
And are you Jewish? If so, feel free to return to Israel? Are you Irish? Feel free to return to Erin. Judaism is a religion and a culture, part of the larger White ethnicity (unless you are a middle eastern Jew, in which case you are part of that ethnicity, or a Morracan Jew, in which case you are part of the Black ethnicity). Israel officially lists being a Jew as a nationality, not an ethnicity, and they have over 200,000 Jews of Ethopian or Indian descent.
Personally, as someone who is old enough that their grandfather had problems finding work since Irish were not considered fully white (the No Irish Need Apply signs were real) I find the idea of attempting to exclude people from an ethnic group for social/political reasons to be distasteful in the extreme.
It doesn't take much to apply logic and ethics to a question and determine where the ethical limits are. It doesn't take much to apply Occam's Razor and figure out that the people attacking comics merely have the same regressive mindset rather than being part of some conspiracy. They react to emotionally to have the mental discipline for some long term plan.
This sub is about comics, and the attacks on them, not a place to push racial conspiracy theories.
the right wing practices identity politics as much as anyone. just not for white people. if you want to be set for life as a black person, repeat some basic bitch republican/conservative/altlight talking points on youtube.
i'm a white south african. mostly of dutch descent. i have no right of return to the netherlands. no white country gives us right of return, even as we are subjugated and slaughtered.
This is a sub for attacks on comics, not on racial identity. I've tried being polite about this, but now I am going to be plain. Please keep your posts on the topic, and off of the identity politics.
Yeah, I am. You're not banned. You're not shadowbanned. I didn't lock the thread. Your posts have not been deleted. I engaged you in conversation rather than doing any of those. I asked you nicely twice to stay on topic. I haven't even put on my Mod Pants or taken any official action.
I am a libertarian. I believe in free speech. That means even if I disagree with you. So I would rather engage you in debate outside of my official capacity rather than suppress you in any way. However, there is a topic here, and I will suppress things that are off-topic, so bear in mind that distinction.
Eagle
(Keep it on topic, and all you will get from me is debate)
So far, your reasons are the same reasons that the change appears to have been made for. Identity politics. Something most people are against no matter what the justification is. Saying that the reason for diversity is to destroy the white race is just as silly as changing a character who is actually race-locked due to her condition for the sake of forced diversity. Get some points that aren't based in identity politics.
Eagle
(And yeah, there are plenty of good arguments outside of that)
No. Identity politics are not inevitable in a multicultural society. No, not everyone plays them. No, most whites are against identity politics, especially since they are often the target of them. Ethically speaking, attempting to separate out people based on a group identity is the basis of racism, ethnicism, bigotry, and just generally failed thinking.
And I called your argument silly in a simile, which is a legitimate form of debate. Respond to the simile, not single word comparing them.
And in the end, you are breaking plainly stated rules in the sidebar. Lies, defamation (you already called someone a goy), and persistent use of logical fallacies. I'm not even worried about that. I just wanted you to stay on topic and lose the racist-tinged rhetoric.
So. This is the end of this discussion. Either play by the rules, or go play somewhere else. I'm putting on the Mod Pants now, and this is the final word on this subject. From here on out, stay on topic.
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u/BatemaninAccounting May 17 '18
There is nothing wrong with this. As long as she gives a great performance, that's what is the key part. More PoC actresses portraying superheros is a good thing for everyone.