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'Power Rangers' writer says casting Black and Asian actors as Black and Yellow Rangers was 'a mistake' (ew.com)

submitted 1 week ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This went way over my head and I was thinking: the writer's taken their mask off as a racist??

Didn't make the colour connection

[–] blonder@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

The funniest thing about this was that Zack and Trini’s replacements were Asian and Black, respectively. So they just swapped it while keeping the diversity.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The pink for girl and blue for boy was there too.

Is red the odd one out?

/s (not sarcasm towards racism, but about the way producers were thinking)

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