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Voice-Over Actors Chosen By Ethnicity
//US animated comedy series The Simpsons will no longer use white actors for the voices of characters from other ethnic backgrounds, the show's producers say.//
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This appears to be an exercise in the BLM brigade and their supporters climbing up their own bottoms. Presumably applicants will be required to indicate ethnicity when applying for work - and white people need not apply. Surely a retrograde step in the quest for equality? So much for an end to racial profiling and all that goes with it.
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This appears to be an exercise in the BLM brigade and their supporters climbing up their own bottoms. Presumably applicants will be required to indicate ethnicity when applying for work - and white people need not apply. Surely a retrograde step in the quest for equality? So much for an end to racial profiling and all that goes with it.
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Gromit. //US animated comedy series The Simpsons will no longer use white actors for the voices of characters from other ethnic backgrounds//
How difficult is that to understand?
I repeat, how can they object to people being defined by ethnicity when they clearly want actors to be employed on the basis of their ethnicity?
How difficult is that to understand?
I repeat, how can they object to people being defined by ethnicity when they clearly want actors to be employed on the basis of their ethnicity?
// How difficult is that to understand? //
You managed to.
// applicants will be required to indicate ethnicity when applying for work - and white people need not apply. //
White actors can apply for white roles. Black actors can’t apply for white roles.
White actors are not being discriminated against because they are no longer to be considered for Indian roles.
You managed to.
// applicants will be required to indicate ethnicity when applying for work - and white people need not apply. //
White actors can apply for white roles. Black actors can’t apply for white roles.
White actors are not being discriminated against because they are no longer to be considered for Indian roles.
So much missing of the point here. A world where white actors were providing voice-over work for black characters was a world where BAME actors weren't really getting a look-in. I appreciate that it shouldn't matter -- but it does, and we have to work with the world as it is. Comparison to ICe Age, dinosaurs etc is, as usual, utterly fatuous.
//And what about roles written as white characters but played by black actors, Jim? Should that no longer happen either?//
I can't actually think of any characters that fit that description.
Incidentally, to my knowledge, both Mike Henry (Cleveland in Family Guy) and Hank Azaria (Apu and others, The Simpsons) voluntarily stood back from their roles some POC could take over. Nothing was forced, and reading their statements, I don't think anyone was putting pressure on them to do so.
I can't actually think of any characters that fit that description.
Incidentally, to my knowledge, both Mike Henry (Cleveland in Family Guy) and Hank Azaria (Apu and others, The Simpsons) voluntarily stood back from their roles some POC could take over. Nothing was forced, and reading their statements, I don't think anyone was putting pressure on them to do so.
// //And what about roles written as white characters but played by black actors, Jim? Should that no longer happen either?//
I can't actually think of any characters that fit that description. //
"Annie" has traditionally been played by a white kid with red curly hair. in the 2014 remake, Quvenzhané Wallis was cast.
in the "Fantastic 4" comics, Johnny Storm is white, and was played by Chris Evans in 2005. In 2015, Michael Jordan was cast.
in the original 1990s TV version of "Charmed", the 3 lead characters were white sisters. when remade in 2018, the roles were filled by an afro-Caribbean, and african-american and a latina.
(I could go on...….)
I can't actually think of any characters that fit that description. //
"Annie" has traditionally been played by a white kid with red curly hair. in the 2014 remake, Quvenzhané Wallis was cast.
in the "Fantastic 4" comics, Johnny Storm is white, and was played by Chris Evans in 2005. In 2015, Michael Jordan was cast.
in the original 1990s TV version of "Charmed", the 3 lead characters were white sisters. when remade in 2018, the roles were filled by an afro-Caribbean, and african-american and a latina.
(I could go on...….)
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