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LightningThief posted...

The only one lying is you, that or you're confused. Disney's Beauty and the Beast is literally not all about France. The story could take place in Quebec or Louisiana and the main plot of the story doesn't change. It was never about France.

You seem to be confused with a story being set in a specific location, and the story being actually about the where its set.

You said that hating minorities was the only reason anyone could have a problem with every film having a cast comprised of more than 50% underrepresented groups and you doubled down on it. With historic context being no excuse. And you doubled down on it.

I gave examples of how a Disney version of 18th century France could still have diversity and inclusion without the French comprising less than half of the cast of their own film. I conceded that, if the location were changed to a fictional setting, they could do whatever they pleased with the cast and it wouldn't matter. I've mentioned that my own writing includes diverse casts. None of that matters, apparently. You're grasping at straws and acting like you have a smoking gun. Some settings are different from others. Some casts should be different from others.

I've been using Black History Month as an excuse to watch blaxploitation films. These movies include White, Hispanic, and Asian characters from time to time. But 80% of the cast is going to be Black because, while fictional, they are categorically films about life and conflict in predominantly Black locations. If somebody remade Super Fly or Dolemite and decided that Black people should make up less than 50% of the movie, I wouldn't be pleased about that either. (Also, if I "hate minorities," why am I watching these movies anyway? Since you know what I'm *really* thinking, why don't you use your psychic powers to share with the rest of the board my lucky numbers, the subject matter of the book that I'm working on, and what I had for dinner last night?)

Disney's Beauty and the Beast isn't my racist safespace that I go to in order to get away from diversity. I haven't seen the movie in its entirety since 1994. I'm just using it as an example of a setting that would be predominantly Caucasian.