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10 votes
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XXXTENTACION - Snow (2017)
5 votes -
Thunderpussy - Somebody To Love (Live on KEXP) (2018)
6 votes -
Aether: Distributing Social Networks Without Distributed Consensus
3 votes -
Melnitsa - Dorogi (Roads) (2012)
4 votes -
The story of Chiller, one very messed up video game
10 votes -
Toroflux paradox: making things (dis)appear with math
5 votes -
China's demographic problem. The one child policy effect.
4 votes -
US Senator Ben Sasse (r) on #MeToo, judicial nominations, and bad faith political arguments
7 votes -
Azuria Sky - listen_ (2015)
5 votes -
孔明の罠 - Kaizo Trap
6 votes -
Coheed And Cambria - Unheavenly Creatures (2018)
12 votes -
GUNSHIP - When You Grow Up, Your Heart Dies (2018)
8 votes -
Moral Code X - Pervyj Sneg (Early Snow) (2007)
3 votes -
Korean McDonald's VS. Burger King in Seoul, South Korea
5 votes -
Ultimate Fishing Simulator
4 votes -
Ultimate Cheese Wellington - Primitive Method
3 votes -
Experimenting with liquid rockets
11 votes -
Creature Canyon - Lonely As I Am (Jam In The Van live at KAABOO Del Mar)
2 votes -
The Psycho franchise | re:View
9 votes -
The secrets of cooking rice — the cause of recipe failure is not what you might think
10 votes -
Brad makes garlic miso | It's Alive
10 votes -
Ta G
1 vote -
Disney - The magic of animation
13 votes -
Ubisoft's creative head talks the future of Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell
4 votes -
A thorough look at Neverwinter Nights
8 votes -
Is whitewashing a two way street?
I was recently watching this video about whitewashing in films, and it started me on a chain of thoughts that I'm slightly confused about. I'd like to get some alternative viewpoints on the...
I was recently watching this video about whitewashing in films, and it started me on a chain of thoughts that I'm slightly confused about. I'd like to get some alternative viewpoints on the matter, to hopefully clear up some issues I'm having.
In this video, the person presenting the opinion goes on to define whitewashing as:
[...] when Hollywood takes a character who is a person of colour in the source material, and casts a white actor for the final portrayal we see on screen.
This definition is good, and I agree with it. I can also clearly see how "Whitewashing" is a problem. However, later on in the video she says:
But this thing some people like to call "Blackwashing", is not a problem. It's not even a thing.
This is what I have trouble agreeing with. If we take the definition provided for whitewashing as a good source, how can "blackwashing" not be the opposite, where a person of colour plays a traditionally white character?
She provides some examples from comic book movies, such as Nick Fury from the MCU. I think that Samuel L. Jackson does a great performance as Fury in all the MCU films; I wouldn't cast any other actor for the part. However, I do have a problem accepting that "Whitewashing" is a problem, but "Blackwashing" is not. Logically, would not either one or both of these be a problem? I'd love to hear what everyone thinks about this, as I'm pretty clearly confused myself.
16 votes -
Why the world is running out of pilots
9 votes -
Tower of Power - Soul With a Capital S (Jam In The Van)
3 votes -
World's first sci-fi convention (Royal Albert Hall, 1891)
7 votes -
Unleash the Archers - Awakening (2017)
10 votes -
How the first ever telecoms scam worked
12 votes -
OPPO Find X review: Are phones only about Style now? - LinusTechTips
9 votes -
1787 Beer Soup from Germany - Townsends
6 votes -
Skepta - Shutdown (2015)
4 votes -
The "Roval" a new NASCAR track proves to be unconventional challenges drivers and their cars
8 votes -
The White Headhunter: The story of a 19th-century sailor who survived a South Seas heart of darkness
2 votes -
DIR EN GREY - Keigaku no Yoku (谿壑の欲) (2018)
9 votes -
Why meat is the best worst thing in the world
24 votes -
Do you ever feel like glitches can actually make the games MORE entertaining?
A lot of the time people will by default mark a game being buggy as a negative, and on the one hand I do understand this. But, at the same time, some of my most memorable gaming moments will be...
A lot of the time people will by default mark a game being buggy as a negative, and on the one hand I do understand this. But, at the same time, some of my most memorable gaming moments will be stuff like walking entering the wasteland to find an old barrel just spinning violently on the floor. Now, obviously a GAME BREAKING bug will always destroy an experience, but if you look at a civilian floating up a wall in spider-man PS4 and you're too worried about your immersion to find humour in it, I'm sure you're very fun at parties.
25 votes -
Was Adolf Hitler a socialist? A response to a common argument.
11 votes -
Valley forged: How one man made the indie video game sensation Stardew Valley
18 votes -
Suicide and mental health
8 votes -
Video game 'Donut County' asks big questions about gentrification...
7 votes -
The Philosophy of Cowboy Bebop – Wisecrack Edition
14 votes -
There are too many video games. What now?
26 votes -
John Carmack keynote at Oculus Connect 5
6 votes -
Every way to cook a chicken breast (thirty-two methods) | Bon Appétit
9 votes -
What commercialization is doing to cannabis | Ben Cort
6 votes -
Mount Eerie - Forest Fire (2017)
7 votes