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So in my English class someone had a presentation about white-washing. Basically the girl in the class was talking about how many theater roles are given to white people other than POC that were originally wrote in the first script of the play or musical. Basically say a Latino was written originally but they casted a white person. After the presentation people were taking about their opinions. I raised my hand and basically said that I like having diversity in musical, plays, movies, tv shows but a lot have the same people of that race in everything. For example Kevin Hart is almost always the funny sidekick. It would be nice to other people of the same race. A lot of the actors in Hollywood are great but are overused in almost everything. After what I said some people got offended by my comment which I was confused because I was on their side for diversity but would love to see new black, Asian, white stars in stuff. How was this offense? Keep in mind, this was a English class in high school with students with almost the same political views (left winged). I consider myself as a moderate and agree with stuff from the left but never the far left.