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Even period dramas that are somewhat based on facts take liberties with regard to the hair color, eye color, age, height, weight, etc. of the actors who portray people who actually lived. Do you think that’s a problem?

When a series features a fictitious character, what is the justification for being annoyed about casting someone with brown or black skin? (And, yes, I fully understand that skin color isn’t like hair or eye color — that skin-color-as-marker-of-otherness is huge, that humans are only at the start of examining centuries of problematic behavior based on othering certain groups — but nonetheless I’m asking.)

What did you hope to accomplish by stirring the pot with this comment?

Why do you feel threatened about the possibility of a world in which variation in skin color is no more significant than variation in hair or eye color?