Anonymous asked: I like how people have no problem with a white character being turned black, but if a black character turned white...There would be a riot.

Uh, yeah, and there SHOULD be a riot. Whitewashing characters happens all the fucking time and is terrible. Could you imagine growing up and not seeing yourself ever represented, or only represented in harmful, untrue stereotypes?

I’ve tried to be patient and give people the benefit of the doubt, but I’ve spent hours today deleting rude and racist AF comments on Instagram and I’ve got very little left to give you. Ruby’s race and appearance play no role in how she navigates her world, so there’s literally zero reason why she couldn’t be played by a black, Latinx, or Asian actress. The fact they broke the white actress mold for a major studio film is a god damn miracle, even in this day and age. So you can take this line of thinking straight to a Trump rally and get outta here, because I’ve got -1000% sympathy for it.





(Edited to add the gender neutral, nonbinary latinx–typed this up on my phone last night and didn’t even realize it autocorrected back to Latino. Sorry about that!)