The problem is, these movies don't have anything to do with each other. So if you acknowledge that's it's possible, then there's no legitimate criticism unless you want to argue that Movie A can't have a black person who is friends with a white person solely because Movie B did. Since Movie A has to be taken on its own merits, the fact that Movie B did something has absolutely no relevance to whether or not Movie A does it. So we move on to Movie C, which also has a black friend. Now you might say that three movies all have a black person who is friends with a white one? Unrealistic! But it's not a valid argument. You've already acknowledged that it actually happens in real life. So does the fact that "Tucker and Dale..." has a black friend mean "Friday the 13th Part 55" can't? See the problem with your argument? As long as it's possible, each movie can have it because there's no logical reason why the presence of black people in other movies should make a black person in this particular movie suddenly more unrealistic than it was before. In other words, if only one movie in the history of cinema had a black friend, you wouldn't have made this argument, right? So how could a second movie with a black friend suddenly make the black friend in the first movie somehow unrealistic?
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