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toyota
07/21/19 3:10:07 AM
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/9546204/cats-movie-outrage-whitewashing/

THE Cats movie has received further backlash with the musical now being accused of 'whitewashing' the film's black female lead.

Kenyan-Born actress Francesca Hayward, 27, has been given a white face of fur in the flick, which uses CGI to turn the actors into felines.


XNvoWLH

Thots? People said power rangers was racist/sexist because black ranger was played by a black guy and yellow ranger played by an asian girl but now they randomly mix stuff up for cat characters ffs its racist to not have a black chick play a black cat?
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MabusIncarnate
07/21/19 4:11:38 AM
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But black cats are unlucky and portraying one on the screen would surely trigger the apocalypse.
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ModLogic
07/21/19 4:16:03 AM
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power ranger was also sexist in thinking the pink ranger had to be female.
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Infinite 2003
07/21/19 4:21:39 AM
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Can we please for the love of God stop making news out of Twitter comments
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MICHALECOLE
07/21/19 4:24:21 AM
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Im going to make a Twitter and make the most outrageous claims about thing being racist or whatever and see if I can get a news article written about me
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MabusIncarnate
07/21/19 4:27:37 AM
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MICHALECOLE posted...
Im going to make a Twitter and make the most outrageous claims about thing being racist or whatever and see if I can get a news article written about me

Too late, I already posted this comment on Twitter and my droves of 4 followers might think you are racist now.
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boxington
07/21/19 4:44:27 AM
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she's pretty beautiful, tbh.
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gmanthebest
07/21/19 4:53:32 AM
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People will bitch about anything
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thronedfire2
07/21/19 6:30:41 AM
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White

The cats fur is darker than her skin
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ssjevot
07/21/19 6:36:31 AM
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Maybe it's the lighting, but isn't her skin already pretty white?
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MabusIncarnate
07/21/19 6:39:00 AM
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thronedfire2 posted...
White

The cats fur is darker than her skin

ssjevot posted...
Maybe it's the lighting, but isn't her skin already pretty white?

This is no place for logic
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Doe
07/21/19 6:40:34 AM
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So white people cant have dark furred fursonas?
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TheoryzC
07/21/19 7:29:30 AM
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Making news about Twitter comments has to be the lowest form of journalism
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fuzzylittlbunny
07/21/19 7:35:42 AM
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Francesca as she appears in the film with white fut

lol
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Laserion
07/21/19 7:36:23 AM
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Fur is hair, not skin.
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AmericaTheBrave
07/21/19 8:04:20 AM
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MabusIncarnate posted...
MICHALECOLE posted...
Im going to make a Twitter and make the most outrageous claims about thing being racist or whatever and see if I can get a news article written about me

Too late, I already posted this comment on Twitter and my droves of 4 followers might think you are racist now.


And one of those followers is your mom.
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cjsdowg
07/21/19 8:06:52 AM
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Damn all of those things are unsettling .
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Rika_Furude
07/21/19 8:17:05 AM
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Why are they complaining about whitewashing when there is a recent trend of blackwashing?
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im not 13
07/21/19 8:21:20 AM
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www.thesun

Stopped reading there
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Alucard188
07/21/19 8:22:53 AM
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Laserion posted...
Fur is hair, not skin.


Fun fact: a polar bear's skin is actually black.
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Error1355
07/21/19 8:24:17 AM
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this fictional cgi cat character doesn't look like the original actress

time to burn down the movie studio
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Iodine
07/21/19 8:25:06 AM
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TheoryzC posted...
Making news about Twitter comments has to be the lowest form of journalism

This. I could understand if the backlash was coming from news publications but this is just lame.
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Banjo2553
07/21/19 8:33:35 AM
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Let me guess, the "outrage" is a few Twitter users?

*checks*

What a fucking surprise. Can news outlets stop using Twitter as a source of news? Edit: Actually, it's a tabloid news company. Those always have extremely low standards.
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Counundrum
07/21/19 9:10:25 AM
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im not 13 posted...
www.thesun

Stopped reading there

Pretty much this. The Sun hardly counts as a credible source of journalism.
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ViewtifulGrave
07/21/19 9:17:31 AM
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ModLogic posted...
power ranger was also sexist in thinking the pink ranger had to be female.

But the yellow ranger was originally a man.
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BaiusGaltar
07/21/19 9:18:07 AM
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ViewtifulGrave posted...
ModLogic posted...
power ranger was also sexist in thinking the pink ranger had to be female.

But the yellow ranger was originally a man.

An Asian man...
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sktgamer_13dude
07/21/19 9:20:06 AM
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Counundrum posted...
im not 13 posted...
www.thesun

Stopped reading there

Pretty much this. The Sun hardly counts as a credible source of journalism.

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-Unowninator-
07/21/19 9:47:53 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAA1xgTTw9w" data-time="

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Vol2tex
07/21/19 9:49:24 AM
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boxington posted...
she's pretty beautiful, tbh.

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NonDairyMiltank
07/21/19 9:49:27 AM
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fake outrage

she's part white to begin with...
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SSJCAT
07/21/19 9:52:55 AM
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they do realize that fur isnt skin color, right?

also, these same people would be raging if they made a black person a black cat, saying oh because shes black she has to be a black cat too now does she?!
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UnfairRepresent
07/21/19 9:57:21 AM
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Alucard188
07/21/19 9:58:09 AM
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BaiusGaltar posted...
ViewtifulGrave posted...
ModLogic posted...
power ranger was also sexist in thinking the pink ranger had to be female.

But the yellow ranger was originally a man.

An Asian man...


>_>
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UnfairRepresent
07/21/19 10:02:02 AM
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BaiusGaltar posted...
ViewtifulGrave posted...
ModLogic posted...
power ranger was also sexist in thinking the pink ranger had to be female.

But the yellow ranger was originally a man.

An Asian man...


Every ranger was "Originally" Asian.

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jpennys_cat
07/21/19 10:05:28 AM
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SSJCAT posted...
they do realize that fur isnt skin color, right?

also, these same people would be raging if they made a black person a black cat, saying oh because shes black she has to be a black cat too now does she?!

Please don't cast Mr. Trump as an orange cat.
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Skye Reynolds
07/21/19 10:05:43 AM
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Damn it to hell. Fur is not skin.

I dreamt once about being a black cat. Does that make me guilty of dreamworld blackface?
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BaiusGaltar
07/21/19 10:39:40 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
BaiusGaltar posted...
ViewtifulGrave posted...
ModLogic posted...
power ranger was also sexist in thinking the pink ranger had to be female.

But the yellow ranger was originally a man.

An Asian man...


Every ranger was "Originally" Asian.

wQxespK

Those aren't power rangers.
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The_Doge
07/21/19 12:16:25 PM
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@jpennys_cat posted...
SSJCAT posted...
they do realize that fur isnt skin color, right?

also, these same people would be raging if they made a black person a black cat, saying oh because shes black she has to be a black cat too now does she?!

Please don't cast Mr. Trump as an orange cat.

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Skye Reynolds
07/21/19 12:24:25 PM
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This is just so stupid. Race should not be associated animal species, fur color, feather color, scale color, etc. If you're playing a character that's not human, you're playing a character that's not human.

I thought it was stupid when Lion King equated species with race. Now we're gonna say that a character's fur should match the actor's skintone when they play an animal? Are these people out of their fucking minds?
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Skye Reynolds
07/21/19 12:28:03 PM
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What does this mean for Kung Fu Panda? Daffy Duck? The One Hundred and One Dalmatians?

Yeah, let's make sure that all of the spotted white dogs are voiced by white people. If we need inclusive casting, we'll add have a black cat or a doberman to the cast. That'd make sense. This is the dumbest fucking shit I've read all year. Getting mad because a black actor is playing a white-furred cat.
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TheOnionKnight
07/21/19 12:35:48 PM
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All I think after this thread is that more people oughta read Maus. One of the main points of that comic is how metaphors that try to lump people together under a single group identity will inevitably collapse on themselves. Anyone insisting that black people must be black cats is barking up the wrong tree.

(It's especially dumb in this case because you got black actors like Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, and Jason Derulo in the same damn movie who are playing cats with darker fur colors.)
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jpennys_cat
07/21/19 1:16:34 PM
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The_Doge posted...
@jpennys_cat posted...
SSJCAT posted...
they do realize that fur isnt skin color, right?

also, these same people would be raging if they made a black person a black cat, saying oh because shes black she has to be a black cat too now does she?!

Please don't cast Mr. Trump as an orange cat.

y38YQlK

Orange cat bad!
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The_Doge
07/21/19 1:44:02 PM
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jpennys_cat posted...
The_Doge posted...
@jpennys_cat posted...
SSJCAT posted...
they do realize that fur isnt skin color, right?

also, these same people would be raging if they made a black person a black cat, saying oh because shes black she has to be a black cat too now does she?!

Please don't cast Mr. Trump as an orange cat.

y38YQlK

Orange cat bad!

jpennys_cate admits to being Bad Cate
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jpennys_cat
07/21/19 2:28:22 PM
#47:


The_Doge posted...
jpennys_cat posted...
The_Doge posted...
@jpennys_cat posted...
SSJCAT posted...
they do realize that fur isnt skin color, right?

also, these same people would be raging if they made a black person a black cat, saying oh because shes black she has to be a black cat too now does she?!

Please don't cast Mr. Trump as an orange cat.

y38YQlK

Orange cat bad!

jpennys_cate admits to being Bad Cate


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Hop103
07/21/19 2:32:20 PM
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Those cats look terrible (they look like they straight out of Limbo) and the outrage is even more terrible.
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SkittyOnWailord
07/21/19 2:49:55 PM
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M_Live posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Why are they complaining about whitewashing when there is a recent trend of blackwashing?

That's not a thing


https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/April_O%27Neil_(Rise_of_the_TMNT)

You'll have to re-add the ) because GameFAQs breaks links that end with it.
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Skye Reynolds
07/21/19 2:52:06 PM
#50:


In the original comics, April O'Neil was modeled after a woman who was half-black, half-Italian. She was dating one of the creators. I can't remember which. It was the cartoon which made her a redhead.

They did the same thing to Baxter Stockman as well. <_<
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Skye Reynolds
07/21/19 2:53:30 PM
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I dislike it that they're casting April as a teen though. That defeats the purpose of her character.
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