Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So it was 30 years ago. I feel like, even though things are far from perfect now, nowadays a comment like this would draw quite a few more critical looks than back then.

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  • Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    People in 1994 knew exactly how fucked this was.

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    • wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure, but knowing how fucked something is and actually speaking out about it are two very different things.

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  • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was also 30 years closer to Harriet Tubman in a time when black civil rights were not even as as sanded smooth as they appear now

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bruh we’ve got a Nazi president

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      • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And he’s fucking everyone instead of just black people. We had a DEI program to rollback again. If someone calls me the n-word, I can post that on Tiktok and have a 50 40% chance of getting them fired.

        Shit’s bad but shit’s almost always been bad for black people in America, so you mark the little peaks.

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• andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Look up who Alec McGuiness played in Lawrence of Arabia.

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  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or look at Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Or Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra. Or John Wayne in Gengis Khan.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.

      Cleopatra was by ancestry mostly Greek. So I don’t get what you mean.

      Most of her subjects weren’t quite “black” either.

      Sorry for this interjection, but I hate wrong corrections, especially when they give up cute chains of thought like “queen of (hellenistic, that’s my own addition) Egypt -> Egypt’s in the African continent -> black”.

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      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, the thing a lot of people seem to miss is just how major of a geographic barrier the Sahara is. As a consequence, northern Africans weren’t generally very black for most of history.

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      • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I never said she should’ve been black. But some milktoast British lady is still several shades lighter than any Egyptian in history.

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    • doug@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or Emma Stone in Aloha, or Max Minghella in The Social Network, or Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange.

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• skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s such an insane story that I wonder what the other side of it is. It’s easy to imagine the guy just having got out of a meeting ten minutes earlier with “if you don’t get Julia Roberts into a movie by the end of the week, I’ll see you never work in this town again!” ringing in his ears.

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