Why do people say things like “woke” or “political correctness” when race swapping in movies occur?

[Anonymous]

[IHaveRespawned]

It is racism towards white people. The left always tries to play this narrative that whites cannot be victims of racism, which is completely untrue. Imagine if it were the other way around, a white character replacing a black character... there would be uproar! The leftist media and the far left in general have proven they don't like white people or white culture. They have placed blame on white people for everyone's problems. It makes me believe the white genocide theory is true. White genocide does not necessarily mean the killing of whites, but refers to methods and attitudes to eliminate white influences and culture... to suppress the white population if you will.

[Hellraiser1984]

Race swapping goes both ways. If an African American person can play traditionally white character then why can a white person play a traditionally African American person? Jim Carrey should be able to play Malcolm x or martin Luther king. An Asian person should be able to play queen Elizabeth or king Arthur. A native American person should be able to play Andrew Jackson.

[AI Opinion]

When race swapping occurs in movies, some people refer to terms like "woke" or "political correctness" because they feel the changes are made to promote inclusivity and diversity. These terms are often used, sometimes critically, to describe efforts to address representation in media. While some appreciate the diversity, others feel these changes are driven by social agendas rather than creative decisions. 🎬

[Chazmatazz269]

Race and gender swapping is done primarily to appease a small but loud minority who typically doesn’t even appreciate the art form to begin with. So the story and portrayals suffer for the sake of making some kind of social observation.
They don’t care, so they’re never happy.


Conversely, there are a lot of anti-woke people who are just using it as an argument to justify their discomfort with change. Nobody can tell me that Idris Elba wouldn’t be a bang on James Bond. But there are a lot of ignorant people out there who would insist the studio keep casting because they don’t think 007 should be black. They claim to care about quality and merit until it ceases to suit them.


Both sides of this argument are rife with ignorance and hypocrisy. I wish they all would just shut up, crawl back into their parents’ basements and eat paint chips.

[Anonymous]

Woke

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When big companies like Disney and Marvel or Netflix insert politics usually relating to an individuals race, sexuality or gender into any form of entertainment in a non subtle often preachy tone in order to get more people to consume the entertainment in question or push a political agenda.

Now and days it feels like all the big companies are going woke

[Rei13]

Because of forced diversity in already established roles. Honestly I just feel like it is lazy and sparks outrage for attention. I make it a point not to watch the show/movie/etc when that happens because I don’t want to support it in any way 😅 I like when movies/shows/books have diversity when it is its own thing. FROM did a great job with it.

[Nikki1989]

People have to put a tag on everything these days.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Dunno, I say "continuity error".

Lateky though multiverses are being used as an excuse to be lazy about series' continuity.

It bothers me that most people are less inventive nowadays as well.
Choosing to redesign a character, rather than inventing a new character instead, is just bad in my opinion.

Its bad for fans who like those characters and their stories and want to see them continue, and bad for creative people's minds to lack imagination.

[SotiCoto]

Because race-swapping is completely unnecessary and often disrespectful to the original character design... and is almost always done so all the pseudo-liberal people on the casting team can circle-jerk themselves and be smug about "representation".

[LiamJHayden]

If they are fictional characters in a fantasy land, I really do not care about the race or gender of the characters. If someone does a fictional account for example of Ancient China and the characters are not Chinese or other at least other Asian that would be weird.

[Anonymous]

Because those movies don't need to be remade in the first place. We didn't need another Aladdin or Little Mermaid or Snow White.

[DonaldDarko]

Because we know our enemies and how the operate. We've been fighting these scum for decades.

[Kaneki05]

Because it is. It's not hard to understand.

[Anonymous]

People say those things because nobody will ever make a movie in which MLK, Jr. is played by a white actor. There will never be a white Shaft. . . can you dig it?

[strateguy632]

Because misused "diversity" is the p. c. agenda.

[Anonymous]

They never grew up.

Putting words into an understandable order requires both attention and education some people are too lazy to obtain.

[Phoenix98]

Because race swapping in movies now a days is done with a political agenda in mind usually.

[Pohjolan]

Either way it's advertising that you don't take the movie seriously nor source material seriously.

I suppose race swapping is fine if it's a parody.

[Anonymous]

Because most commonly race and gender swapping are done in support of a progressive ideology. This doesn’t make it bad though.

[jahaims]

Because companies obviously just pander for views and they don't actually care about any movements.

[Anonymous]

They are Neanderthals with politics on the brain

[littleracecar7]

I don't care about race swapping. I don't like when they ruin the script.

[Lilly1979]

Cause they need things way it “used to be”

[beefcakebradybatson]

RACISM !!!