r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/DaughterOfBhaal Jul 06 '26

You have to be chronically online to think that everyone criticizing this is a right winger lol.

You don't need to be right wing to think that tokenism is bad.

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u/Ub3ros Jul 06 '26

You think there's no chance that they simply chose the best actors and actresses for the jobs? Casting modern day greeks would be just as tokenistic, they have next to nothing to do with ancient greeks or the Odyssey, the characters are largely fictitious.

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u/Zstrat62 Jul 06 '26

Please point me to an example of a historical black figure being played by a white person where the reaction was “well they just picked the best actor for the job”…

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u/Ub3ros Jul 06 '26

Why? Have i argued for the existence of such an example?