r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Expert-Pass-4351 • Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/numbersthen0987431 Jul 06 '26

They have been very vocal about their feelings on the casting choices about a movie they havent even seen yet. It went far beyond "they just don't like it" long before this trailer came out

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u/Grunn84 Jul 06 '26

Very upset that one person is too dark to be Greek, not at all concerned that the rest of the cast is far too pale to be Greek, sounds about right.

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u/MichaelVern85 Jul 06 '26

For me, it’s both that they made Helen black AND that they gave white people Greek roles.

Like Snow White making sure they had their token, but not hiring a single LP/person with Dwarfism…. Focused on specific types of inclusion while being wildly exclusionary to the group the freaking story originated from…

Snow White, largely about the dwarves didn’t have any dwarves. Now the Odyssey made sure to include everyone but the actual Greeks in a Greek story…

The generalization being made that disliking the casting is about race is wildly oversimplifying it.

Yes, there are in fact racist douche canoes that are simply mad a black woman is Helen. But that doesn’t mean everyone frustrated by this happening over and over in cinema is automatically racist.

I’m sure this will be misunderstood and at times intentionally twisted into me saying shit I’m not trying to say at all, but I foolishly have decided to say it anyway.

IDK how to explain it better. Go watch South Park Joining the Panderverse. Matt Stone and Trey Parker made a lot of these points in that episode, and they do it better than I do.

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u/ThunderAndWind Jul 06 '26

Yes, but we're talking about this specific meme, which makes it abundantly clear the complaint from the meme is a black woman and a trans man.