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Los Angeles Times is upset because Friends The Reunion lacked diversity 😑


Why they had to use the original actors, all of them so white and disgusting?

The right moral choice would have been to replace them by a "diverse" cast. So we could have a Matt LeBlack, sorry, I mean a Black Matt LeBlanc, an Asian Matthew Perry, and a tranny David Schwimmer! So progressive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSdJ6ITnCug

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That would be pretty cool. I would be happy Schwimmer was able to exercise his/her freedom to maximize his/her happiness in the most freest and most richest nation on planet Earth.

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You must be a little kid or a foreigner, because this complaint goes back to the very first season of the show. The show took place in NYC---the most diverse city on the planet--and didn't have one ethnic person anywhere, not even as a background extra. Even Seinfeld had a few minority characters here and there, because no matter how insular you try to be, it's...fucking NYC. You're gonna see at least one black, Asian, Latino or Arab somewhere.

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Back in the 90s "diversity" wasn't a thing in Hollywood, beyond some minor stuff like the mandatory black dude in Horror movies who died first. Sitcoms and comedy in general didn't give a shit about "diversity", and audience cared even less. It wasn't even part of the conversation.

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By the way, NY, "the most diverse city" in the planet is quickly becoming the most diverse shithole in the planet. Get woke, go shithole πŸ˜‚

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So Ross never dated a Chinese-American woman or an African-American woman or you just never watched the show actually?

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Matt LeNoir ??!?

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Good point! πŸ˜ƒ

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Next people are going to start complaining that Fresh Prince of Bel-Air wasn’t diverse enough

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The LA Times hates white people.

Do you really need a braille road map to figure this one out???

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