“Weaponized Historical Accuracy”
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The response is usually “well his character is based on his race”. At least I was told that when I tried to explain the annoyance with little mermaid race swap. It didn’t matter when I said the original story described her as very pale. Or the Anne Boyelin show. The showrunner said something about different perspectives or some nonsense like that
They race swapped Heimdallr in Marvel as a deliberate racial attack. He is literally described as the whitest Aesir, so of course they make him a black man. It's everywhere man and it is all done maliciously and with intent.
No arguments from me. Most of the Thor I read in the comics as a kid was from the Avengers so I didn’t get into the Asgard part until I was older. I used to believe that race swaps weren’t a big deal since they were sporadic years ago but I finally opened my eyes after Annie came out. That was followed with so many to the point where I won’t even watch something if it’s race or gender swapped, or if it sounds interesting I just buy the book. Denzel is one of my all time favorite actors and even though I no longer have Netflix I’m not going to even pirate his Hannibal movie
And then I remember hearing people talking about how great Idris Elba did in the role ... and I was like, "did I miss something? He didn't do anything." There was certainly nothing particularly noteworthy in his performance.
But as a psyop, that makes perfect sense. "The whitest guy is actually black, and he was amazing! And if you disagree, you're probably a racist."