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[–] 2plus2equals5 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

There's radio silence from Gaffots and the other websites when it comes to the black actors in the movie (it was never specified that they're Japanese either, but they definitely never looked black in the comic/cartoon)

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[–] capturadorculo 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Unless they've found a dozen racist comments on Twitter to cry about, they're always silent when it comes to minorities taking on roles meant to be European. We're starting to see it happen again with the Netflix Death Note movie. Lots of REEEEEing (even from the mainstream press) about the movie being whitewashed because a Jew and his girlfriend got the lead roles when the original took place in Japan. Most of them don't acknowledge that the other lead is played by a black man, when the source material says he should be an extremely pale European.