My resolve is weakening

[etherial]

So far, Doctor Strange has been getting rave reviews. It's been on my nix list due to the blatant racism in the casting decisions and I'm looking for ideas for penance to pay in lieu of a boycott. That way, I can make a clear decision in advance whether I think it's worth the blood price

Comments

[siderea]

etherial, is this a friend of yours?

[etherial]

I don't have the time to deal with everything that's wrong with this comment, so I'll just drop this link that explains why taking characters of color out of Western media is cruel to children in a different but important way than institutionalized racist hiring practices, which are also a problem.

http://www.hitfix.com/harpy/casting-minorities-as-white-characters-is-not-a-double-standard-heres-why

[jducoeur]

It's worth reading some of the interviews with the director, who is apparently mortified by the whole thing. (Eg, this one.) He had switched the casting of The Ancient One because the actual character from the comics was such an out-of-date stereotype (the same way he updated Wong) that he felt he needed to make some changes, and miscalculated. Having been, let's say, educated by the controversy, he's been refreshingly free with the mea culpa's.

So personally, I'm inclined to forgive him -- it's a nice change to get an honest embarrassed apology instead of the typical stonewalling. An educable moment for Hollywood...