00:00:00.000Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the left celebrates when white characters in films and TV shows are turned black, but reacts with outrage in the reverse.
00:00:07.680This is yet another example of the blatant racial double standards that govern our society, and personally, I've had enough of them. We'll talk about it.
00:00:14.260Also, CNN shocks the world by sort of acknowledging that the BYU racism story was a hoax, though the race baiters over on ESPN are sticking with their story. Facts be damned.
00:00:23.920Dr. Oz comes out in favor of the federal government redefining marriage, and Brian Stelter loses his job at CNN, only to immediately end up on the staff at Harvard.
00:00:32.360What does this tell us about the institutions that run our country? Quite a lot, actually. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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00:02:49.440All that matters is that Franco is white, and white people must stay in their acting lane.
00:02:55.960Now, by the way, John Leguizamo was born in Colombia, but his first prominent role in Hollywood was portraying the Nintendo character Luigi,
00:03:04.240who is an Italian plumber, according to the Nintendo canon.
00:03:07.920That doesn't matter either, though, as we'll cover in a moment.
00:03:11.620Now, over the years, there have been many outrages and controversies stemming from instances of alleged whitewashing.
00:03:18.860The anger is no less palpable when the role in question is a fictional character.
00:03:22.160In 2017, a British actor was forced to drop out of a Hellboy film because the character he was supposed to play was Japanese in the original comic.
00:03:30.980A few years before that, Emma Stone's casting as an Asian woman in a romantic comedy provoked so much wrath from the left
00:03:38.000that the director of the film had to issue a written apology for the film he directed.
00:03:43.820And Stone herself has since apologized for her participation in the project.
00:03:47.420That same year, Rooney Mara had to grovel and beg for forgiveness after starring as Tiger Lily in a Peter Pan adaptation.
00:03:55.280The left declared that the fictional character is supposed to be Native American.
00:04:01.540And now she says that she's haunted by guilt because of portraying that character in the film.
00:04:07.880The outrage extends into the cartoon realm as well, where last year, Hank Azaria famously apologized
00:04:14.000and announced that he was stepping away from his role as a Pooh in The Simpsons on the basis that he shouldn't be voicing a character of Indian descent.
00:04:20.680In fact, the show's producers have since said that no white voice actors will be used for any characters from other ethnic backgrounds from now on.
00:04:31.100The determination to root out all cases of whitewashing, quote unquote, or suspected whitewashing or potential whitewashing,
00:04:38.760is so absolute that the live-action remake of Aladdin in 2019 came under fire because the brown actress who played Jasmine was not brown enough.
00:04:48.800Now, she wasn't white, but she appeared to be kind of white-adjacent, and that was very disturbing.
00:04:54.300A Screen Rant article at the time said that Aladdin's whitewashing had damaged its box office potential.
00:05:00.220The writer apparently convinced that the average moviegoer shares her race-obsessed neurosis.