Harry Shearer fired as Dr Hibert
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Harry Shearer was fired as Dr Hibert by the Simpsons show, for being a honkey.
As I've posted about many times, it's always ok for non-whites to play whites, gays to play heteros, etc, etc but not the other way around.
Joan of Arc was a 17yo ginger chick, but it was ok for her to be played by a 20ish black chick and a 40ish black chick.
Ann Boylen is being played by a black chick in a BBC series that is in production.
A Netflix series has a black queen of England and we know that never happened.
Elliot Page is a trans-man but playing a CIS woman.
As always, "you can only play what you are" only seems to apply to CIS, hetero white male actors, though occasionally it applies to CIS hetero white women playing trans, and some other cases.
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@raphjd said in Harry Shearer fired as Dr Hibert:
Harry Shearer was fired as Dr Hibert by the Simpsons show, for being a honkey.
As I've posted about many times, it's always ok for non-whites to play whites, gays to play heteros, etc, etc but not the other way around.
Joan of Arc was a 17yo ginger chick, but it was ok for her to be played by a 20ish black chick and a 40ish black chick.
Ann Boylen is being played by a black chick in a BBC series that is in production.
A Netflix series has a black queen of England and we know that never happened.
Elliot Page is a trans-man but playing a CIS woman.
As always, "you can only play what you are" only seems to apply to CIS, hetero white male actors, though occasionally it applies to CIS hetero white women playing trans, and some other cases.
Casting is casting - and totally up to the producers ... if black producers want Marie Antoinette to be black, so be it! If the producers want the entire cast of Mulan to be ethnic Chinese (and black/white/korean/japanese/eskimo/martian actors need not apply), so be it! And if another producer wants HIS Mulan to be all-white actors, that's within their prerogative too...
Casting has exclusions in all kinds of employment laws... Here in Florida, the Disney properties (Disney World's Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, etc) call their front-line employees "cast members" so that they can demand all kinds of otherwise illegal requiements:
- until recently, men could not have facial hair
- women's hair had to come down to at-least their shoulders
- men's hair could NOT be long (could not touch their shoulders)
- visible tattoos were not allowed
just to name a few... some of these have changed over the years, but Disney asked for, and got, legal permission to do these things from the Florida Legislature (as a precondition to building Disney World here!)
The point is, just as porn producers can choose to cast only white men with abnormally large penises, so too can The Simpson's producers choose to hire or fire "talent" for any reason they so wish... racial, ethnic... or even penis size!
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More excuses about liberals being hypocrites from you, who woulda thunk it.
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@raphjd said in Harry Shearer fired as Dr Hibert:
More excuses about liberals being hypocrites from you, who woulda thunk it.
Dude - ALL of Hollywood is FULL of liberals (and I mean REAL ones, not right-of-center, but left of you!)
But complaining about liberals in Hollywood is like complaining about white people at a KKK meeting!
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Ah, so we can't call out their extreme hypocrisy.
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@raphjd said in Harry Shearer fired as Dr Hibert:
Ah, so we can't call out their extreme hypocrisy.
Do you know what hypocrisy means?
They don't rail against this kind of thing, they REVEL in it! Sure, its bullshit that the guy lost his gig, but these people REVEL in this shit! It's why most of America ISN'T LIKE Hollywood, and why their wacked out views on things aren't mainstream, even when they're proselytizing it on out most popular social platforms!
We love their music, love their shows - but we also don't buy their politics...
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It is hypocrisy when they say that whites can't play any other race, but that other races can play whites.
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@raphjd said in Harry Shearer fired as Dr Hibert:
It is hypocrisy when they say that whites can't play any other race, but that other races can play whites.
I'll give you that.... (Hey! We agree on something!)
But, it's important to note here that no one lost their jobs: Harry Shearer (the prior voice of Dr. Hibert) will still be the voice of Principal Skinner, Mr. Burns & Smithers, and several others... just not Dr Hibert.
And, no one new was hired: Kevin Michael Richardson is already the voice of several characters (including Maggie LOL). The character was simply re-cast
That said, Harry Shearer has regularly threatened to leave the series over salaries... they make $300,000 PER EPISODE! (No one is paid per-character, so no one's pay is being changed, either!)
So this is either extremism looking for something to be outraged about, or rich people fighting over who voices a bit-part... (Did you see that dog pee on that mailbox over there! That's disrespectful to the men and women of the USPS! -- Oh wait, maybe its just a dog being a dog...)
In more striking and unsettling news:
Did you know that Blue's Clues replaced the mail with email?
"We just got a letter" is now "we just got an email"
AAAACCCCKKKK!!!
WHAT
IS
THIS
WORLD
COMING
TO??Is NOTHING SACRED!
What about the voice actor who played Mailbox?