You know

I GET the historical argument

I do.

If you’re making a highly historically accurate movie about 14th century Scotland or something, I could see why you might argue against casting people of color. Might be kind of strange to see a brown dude in Braveheart, so yeah, fine. I get you. 

But fantasy? 

This is an escapist genre. The entire damn premise is that the laws of the universe are turned on their head. So why are there certain premises, certain assumptions about how our society has always worked, that you can’t leave behind?

Why is your imagination so damn limited?

You can accept a guy moving things telepathically with his brain, but you can’t accept the idea that there might have been black people in Britain a long time ago?

You can accept that there is a weird-ass planet that has winter for nine years, that there are mystical magical dragons in this land, but you see noproblem with the fact that all the good guys are written to be white? And all the bad guys are coded as scary and ethnic? The best that the bad guys get is to be the noble savage?

You can accept the premise that there is an entire race of little people with hairy feet, kind-hearted and silently heroic, and you don’t stop to ask yourself why every single one of them is white? Why the author wrote the story so that all the good guys are white and all the bad guys are black and brown and yellow? 

Seems to me that you’re not trying very hard, if you’re not asking these questions.

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