Jodie Turner-Smith Addresses Playing Race Swapped Anne Boleyn
(boundingintocomics.com)
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Some blacks got their freedom fighting for the British during the revolutionary war and went to England with them after the war. Why not do a story about one of them? At least you have accuracy. I know there were a few Africans who where in Europe so why not research instead of putting blacks people in period pieces that make zero sense. They wouldn’t put a bunch of whites in a story about the ancient Chinese dynasties.
It's not about representation, it's about revenge and sadism.
There's no point for these people in making a movie about a heroic or interesting black character. Everyone would enjoy watching that. Which means the woke would find it uninteresting and boring.
There's no purpose nor pleasure unless someone or some group is attacked or humiliated. They derive joy out of doing to others what they have defined as immoral to do to themselves.
And the more people react the better. If they make some woke theater no one would care. But if they take people's history, that they care about, and wokify it, then they can lay in bed at night and for a moment feel something besides hate, bitterness, and anger - satisfaction and amusement as their brain virus rewards them for imagining that they have made someone else suffer.
Oh they want to, make no mistake. They just can't - because accusing Asians of racism doesn't change their behavior.
Yet.
As screenwriters, woke writers don't seem to know how to write heroes any more.
Hell, they barely know how to write villains, churning out dreck that would embarrass a Saturday morning cartoon in it's simplicity.
If all you can write is cardboard-cutout villains, all you can do is try and tear people down.