Whitewashing

I don't follow comic news that much, but I saw the recent backlash over Hellboy casting a white actor as a mixed Japanese character. The actor Ed Skrein just stepped down from the role today, which shows he has more integrity and awareness than Scarlet Johanssen in Ghost in the Shell or even Alison Brie playing Vietnamese in Bojack Horseman. Good for him, and I hope Hollywood will finally learn its lesson and not cast this way in the first place. They seem to think the push for "diversity" is only about blacks, Hispanics, women, but not Asians for some reason. Time and time again, they pass us over, or if they do cast Asians in an Asian role, it's interchangeably Koreans for Taiwanese, etc. I hope the upcoming live-action Mulan will be Chinese cast, and that the Crazy Rich Asians movie will be a success. Still waiting on a movie about Anna May Wong.

In other news, more courts struck down the Texas Voter ID law and the redistricting map. I was going to be all happy about it, but then Wonkette wrote an article suggesting that Texas could say, "hey we can't redraw any maps when we're in the middle of Hurricane Harvey displacing people." God, we can't have one ray of hope at all? In any case, Texas is probably gonna appeal the cases to the Supreme Court, so we still have suspense about what rulings will affect the 2018 elections.