White casting in Western myths gets a pass
Matt Walsh pointing out the hypocrisy: if someone made an African folklore film with all white actors, conservatives would lose their minds about casting authenticity. But flip it to classical Western texts and suddenly the same people defend it as no big deal.
The double standard is embarrassing.
If someone made a movie set in Africa and based on ancient African folklore, and then populated the cast with white people and other random races and ethnicities that have nothing to do with Africa, everyone would say that the casting is ridiculous and distracting at best (and I would agree). Yet the same thing is done in the reverse to a foundational text of western civilization and even conservatives line up to defend it. It’s pathetic, honestly.
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