Posted on 09/06/2017 1:32:58 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Billy Magnussen, a white actor, has been cast to play a prince in Disney’s upcoming “Aladdin” live action remake but many social media users criticized the move, accusing the studio giant of "whitewashing" the film's plot.
Magnussen, who played a prince in Disney’s “Into the Woods,” was slated to play Prince Anders, who was not a character in the 1992 animated version. The Telegraph reported that Magnussen’s character would be Aladdin’s rival to winning over Princess Jasmine’s heart.
Social media critics slammed the casting decision Tuesday and accused Disney of “whitewashing” the plot of the film.
One social media user tweeted: “Should #actor Billy Magnussen step down as ‘Prince Anders’ the newly created white character in #Aladdin?”
“Why did they add a white prince to #Aladdin? This is going to be a disaster,” another Twitter user wrote.
The film, which was set to be directed by Madonna’s former husband, Guy Ritchie, does not have a release date yet.
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This is blatant outright racism and hate speech on the part of these complaints.
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I’m sure they found some way to make it pornographic, so what’s the gripe?
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I guess we all better save our Snow White books and hide them because at some point they will be illegal to own.
Anything with the word white. When will they demand the White House be changed? A year? 2 years?
This must stop!
Anyone else notice that Disney is live-actioning all their classics?
Hey, as long as he wears black face, what’s the problem? :-D
It's going to piss off some of the liberal factions soon and then the enemy of my enemy is my friend?
We now have at least two generations of liberals in the US whose lives are lived through hatred of all things non-liberal. I really don’t see how you stop that.
How long before anyone with white skin cannot be allowed to live?
But Prince Anders is a loser. That’s good, right, when the white guy is a loser, and doesn’t get the girl. And he’s probably an arrogant jerk, if not actually a minor villain.
If this isn’t stopped.....5 years? They are killing us now via BLM. Cops. Knockout games.
The other day MeTV ran an old Hawaii Five-O episode where Ricardo Montalban played a Japanese character. They REALLY would have loved THAT one!
A whole new world!
Where twits roam plainly in view,
They won’t be told no,
Or where to go,
And they certainly won’t be leaving!
A whole new world,
A depressing history-less point of view
But you’ll not be allowed,
Too white for that crowd
They will not share the ire new world with you.
I bet if they make a new movie about Cleopatra, she will have to be portrayed by a Black. If she is portrayed by a person who is the same race as the real Cleopatra there will be hell to pay.
What is the issue? The main character is Aladdin, he is not white is he? There ARE Caucasians in the middle east.
By demonizing, marginalizing, and dehumanizing Caucasians in the US (who make up at least 60% of the US population), all they are doing is creating the monster that they fear the most, and that monster will destroy them.
Because I will tell you right now, I WILL not let a minority of “Americans” dictate or foment regimes like zimbabwe, South Africa, or some latino/hispanic south american shihole.
Persians ARE white.
Nick Fury is white.
Heimdahl is white.
Johnny Storm is white.
Deadshot is white.
Disgusting. Looks like they hate Whites.
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