I had every intention to kick off the first week of Halloween by talking about Sir Christopher Lee. And then Tim Burton had some racist white nonsense to tell everyone.
The idea that casting people of color must be done for a reason is a tired and flawed excuse for ignoring diversity, and it's all based on the assumption that characters are white (straight, cis, able-bodied, male) until proven otherwise.
Read the what he said:
An Open Letter To Tim Burton From A Black Fangirl:
Things of Note:
My "understanding the reasoning" behind this "default" idea in creative writing is not me saying I think it's right or correct. All I mean is that writers have to find the right way to make qcom stock this deviation explicit in a way that doesn't sound juge like tokenism, which is made all the more difficult because most writers aren't formally taught how to defy this default.
Just because I admire Sir Christopher Lee does not mean that I think his yellowface (and other instances of playing a character of a different race) was okay. I had originally planned to make a video focusing solely on Lee in which I would address this issue more thoroughly, but that obviously did not happen.
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