For those arguing that "Double standards only exist because the playing field isn't level and white people get more roles, therefore, the double standards will stop existing when the playing field is leveled" - anyone who thinks this is LITERALLY saying that they support the very actions and the discrimination that they themselves are standing up against. If you truly feel that way, then, you are not fighting for a positive change. You think that you are supporting a good cause, but, you are actually supporting the very thing that you hate and are fighting so hard against so much - discrimination.
Even feminism originally started out as women wanting to be equals with men. That was then. Now? Feminism has turned into a circus where women like Zarna Joshi scream about a privileged white male assaulting her because some guy made a bad dad joke and called himself Hugh Mungus.
Where does it end?
It ends with double standards ending. Have you not noticed that yes, they are casting more African-American people in roles? On Broadway, on TV, and in movies. They are also casting many more LGBT actors and are bringing awareness to LGBT issues. Diversity IS happening. It doesn't have to be enforced with a fierceness. Rome wasn't built in a day. Diversity is rapidly happening and it's a GOOD thing, but, we have to just keep going forward. We cannot look back and start discriminating against white people just because casting agents cast them in a majority of roles over the last few decades vs POC. If you should be mad at anyone, be mad at the casting departments. But diversity IS happening, now.
But if double standards continue, and if backlash happens if there's a 5% white cast / 95% POC cast (in a movie, show, production, etc), then, wanting something to be 100% the way you want it just makes you a purist. You know who else was a purist? Hitler.
No, I'm not comparing anyone on this board to Hitler. But as I said, diversity is happening, but, we'll only go backwards if the discrimination shifts to another race of people. If double standards persist, then, we'll all just go backwards. Progression + double standards of ANY KIND = do not mix.
It is just a fact that double standards are bad and they hinder our progression as a society. There are literally two major hurricanes out there that are killing people, a huge portion of the country is on fire due to wildfires, and there are SO many issues going on in this world that are so exponentially bigger and more dire than this, yet, I cannot believe that some of you are so offended, angry, and are even resorting to calling people on this thread "morons" and belittling people who are only giving a different viewpoint and are showing their own side of the argument.
Of all the horrible, tragic, and heartbreaking issues going on in the world, this is what it's come to? People arguing because a white person was cast to play in a fictional role that is set in a fictional place, that isn't even real, and doesn't even exist in our reality?
Updated On: 9/7/17 at 05:52 PM
