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There's Literally Nothing Wrong With Having A Black Watson (Nor Holmes For That Matter) If That's What The Producers Want To Do


News flash assholes: Sherlock Holmes is a FICTIONAL character! 😲

If the producers want to make a production to cater for a particular target audience - whether that be black people specifically or black people and knowing they will also pull a percentage of the white audience (whether that be that they genuinely don't care about casting skin colour or even if they do and see it as some positive, virtue signalling or whatever to watch) - they're totally free to do so. Their putting the own cash / career reputations on the table, not you, so watch it if you're happy or don't bother if it offends you so...

But really any argument against is as stupid as saying kids in a school in Africa, Tanzania let's say, shouldn't do a Sherlock Holmes play as they aren't white.

Imagine flying off to Tanzania and standing in that school's assembly hall, shouting your mouth off to any of the kids / staff who'd listen "You CANNOT do this Sherlock Holmes play because you are all BLACK and the Sherlock Holmes character as originally conceived by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was WHITE!! So stop doing your play right now!!".

You'd look like a complete fuckw-t. And that's what you look like complaining about non consequential nonsense like this...

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There's Literally Nothing Wrong With Having A Black Watson



Yes there is. Casting tokens means instead of encouraging non-whites to come up with something worthwhile for themselves, their own stories and their own iconic characters, they're just hijacking something created by someone else. That's not creatively, it's theft.

The brutal reality for leftists who push woke bullshit is that non-whites are incapable of creating anything for themselves. They have no fairytales, no mythology, no superheroes, nothing worth telling. Everything you enjoy in cinema and culture comes from white people and this eats away at certain types who thus 'blackwash' things in a deliberate attempt to spite white people.

It's always "why can't snow white be hispanic?". "Why can't the little mermaid be a hideous black girl?". It's never "why do we always have to be in white people's stories? Why can't we do anything on our own?".

And your school in tanzania analogy doesn't make sense. A school in europe could do a play set in africa, it doesn't mean whites can all move to africa and start taking over their tv screens.

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And your school in tanzania analogy doesn't make sense. A school in europe could do a play set in africa, it doesn't mean whites can all move to africa and start taking over their tv screens...

LOL! πŸ˜‚

Again, just amazing...

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Not a counter argument at all, substance free post.

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Doesn't mean we have to watch it.

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What does characters being fictional have to do with anything? That's always the go-to argument with you people, as if it ever worked.

It doesn't matter if they're real or fictional. Respect their original designs or, as the kids say, "get rekt".

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What does characters being fictional have to do with anything?

For more information, please re-read your own comment. Thanks πŸ‘.

Honestly, you people... πŸ™„

https://moviechat.org/tt1475582/Sherlock

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Changing the time period isn't the same as changing someone's skin color, gender, name, sexuality, or other fundamental aspects. My question stands.

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Yes, that's right - it's changing something else isn't it...

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If whitewashing is bad, so is blackwashing.

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Again, for more information, please re-read your own comment.

No one is being blackwashed...

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YOU reread it, since you clearly didn’t understand it. And yes, Watson was blackwashed, or did you forget already?

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What does characters being fictional have to do with anything?

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Yes, that’s what I said. I typed it and then posted it.

I repeat, what does it matter if they’re real or not? Can you answer that? Do you even know? Does your programming go that far?

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Jesus H. Christ - Do I really need to spoon feed / spell this out for you?

The character is FICTIONAL. You cannot blackwash someone who NEVER actually existed.

As said further up, it's simply changing something else other than the time period...

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Take that da man! Woop woop!

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β€œThe character is FICTIONAL. You cannot blackwash someone who NEVER actually existed.”

Yes you can, and they did, and you know that, you’re just playing dumb for some reason. Real or not, racewashing is always bad.

I dare you to use your logic whenever someone bitches about whitewashing.

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FootofDavros is black and pretends to not care about race swaps when they happen to whites, it's as transparent and dishonest as fuck so fuck that retard.

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If so, I’m not surprised.

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Oh look - Now you're looking for a mutual racist wank fest buddy...

How sweet 😘

πŸ˜‚ 🀑

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Woop woop! 🀑


racist

Yeah your gay little Harry Potter spell doesn't work on me unfortunately.

Intolerato Illuminato!

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I dare you to use your logic..

What, my logic that a fictional character doesn't and never did actually exist? πŸ˜‚

Tremendous stuff...

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Take that da man! Woop woop! Gibs me dat!

Yawn so fucking tiresome.

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Yes, your logic, because you’re the only one in your camp that uses it.

The rest of your buddies got pissy when Hollywood whitewashed Egyptians in Gods of Egypt; Asians in Doctor Strange, Hellboy, and Ghost in the Shell; Native Americans in Peter Pan; and they get anal at the very mention of whitewashing Black Panther. All despite the fact that those characters are fictional.

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What about Zulu? Where do you stand on that?

I guess like black panther you'd insist that all the black savages were replaced with whites and that black people ran about shooting at them with their rifles?

Do you want that one remade before Black Panther?

I'm guessing you would since that deals with actual, real life characters rather than fictional Victorian sidekicks?

πŸ˜‚

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Your deflection is noted.

I haven’t seen Zulu so I have nothing to say about it.

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Deflection?!!

It's EXACTLY the same thing you were talking about, i.e. whitewashing black characters...

Anyway, we are now too thin to continue this nonsense. It is quite clear you have no valid reason for having an issue with this, a FICTIONAL character, placed in a contemporary setting having a skin tone which you do not like.

So at this point, I will say to you:-

Good day to you Sir πŸ‘

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No it's not EXACTLY the same thing at all you disingenuous lying twat,
i.e. whitewashing fictional black characters, you know seeing how you already ignored the actual examples of blackwashing real historical figures I brought up you don't get to retreat into a retarded hypothetical of whitewashing zulus.
Nothing but goalpost moving to try and suit your retarded attempt to gaslight, par for the course from low IQ low culture retards.

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par for the course from low IQ low culture retards.

Hahaha πŸ˜‚. Genius...

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Another substance free post, you're actually the chess-playing pigeon aren't you.

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Of course not, we already had one and his name was Eric Foreman

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Of course there is nothing wrong .. but can we also now have a white guy play Shaft , a white guy play Blade , a white guy play BA Baracus , etc etc

Seems this only works one way doesn't it.

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