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all right guys we're back and we're
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having another race swapping
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conversation I feel like this
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controversy pops up every now and then
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and we have to unpack yet another
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character that has been swapped out for
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the sake of diversity equity and
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inclusion and today we're doing it in
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the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
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there's a lot of pissed off people about
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this next one now of course this
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pertains to the HBO streaming series
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that's coming out soon about Harry
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Potter we all know that JK Rowling has
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been working very closely with the
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creative team that is working on this
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project although I don't know what her
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role is in the casting HBO recently came
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out in defended did her work on this
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project saying despite her personal
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political beliefs hom girl is going to
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be working on the show because we kind
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of need the author but if they needed
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the author maybe they would reference
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the original Source material when it
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comes to the description of characters
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apparently they've decided to just
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ignore that I guess in this casting
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announcement now this has to do with the
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character seus Snape you know Professor
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Snape he's kind of this dark figure uh
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in the Harry Potter World when we first
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get introduced to him in in movie number
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one and of course if you're Harry Potter
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book fans we're about to briefly get
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into his description here but it seems
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as though this role has been offered to
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uh an actor by the name of Papa aidu I
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hope I said his name right sorry Papa
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and this announcement has come out and
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it's getting a lot of responses of
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course people are saying I know what SE
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Snape looks like I know that professor
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and I don't think that he's a a black
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man and it's not to come after this
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actor in any any way shape or form it
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seems like he has a pretty lengthy set
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of work I can imagine he's a good actor
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and he's going to take on this role and
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try to the best of his abilities to be
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loyal to the source material and to put
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on a good show for everybody who's going
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to watch but it's interesting to see
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these changes being made as we've been
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living in the Hollywood that has focused
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itself on diversity equity and inclusion
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for quite some time and it's hard to
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believe that this race swap is not a
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part of the culture that's been placed
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and and poured onto entertainment over
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the last few years now for those of you
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who are unfamiliar with the original
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description of what Professor Snape is
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meant to look like we actually have this
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uh from the Harry Potter books JK's
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description says thin man with salow
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skin a large hooked nose and yellow
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uneven teeth he had shoulder length
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greasy black hair which framed his face
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in curtains curling lips and dark
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penetrating eyes that resembled tunnels
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and you even have you know that little
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cartoon animated version of SE Snape and
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you know it's not really working out I
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don't know how exactly you get a
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shoulder length greasy black hair on the
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actor that they've presumably offered
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this role to but I'm interested to see
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where they go I can understand people
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being a little perturbed by this race
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Swap and it does feel a little
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unnecessary to the best of my knowledge
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within the Harry Potter World and in the
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source material there are black
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characters and it is actually spoken
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about in the book they are directly
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referenced and described as being black
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so it's interesting that they've taken
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Professor Snape and deciding to swap him
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out I saw a lot of people in the talks
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of this Harry Potter series say Adam
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Driver Adam Driver Adam Driver he's the
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one who's meant to be separ Snape he
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looks like him he has the same Vibe we
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all know Adam Driver is an immensely
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talented actor but instead they've
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decided to do this and this is not the
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only story that people have been talking
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about recently in recent news How to
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Train Your Dragon has also popped up the
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main character ashd or the main female
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character has been race swapped and is
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now being played by the actress who you
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see here and of course she's talented
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I'm sure she's wonderful I saw her in
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the last of us she put on a great
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performance that being said why can't
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actresses like that get their own
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characters that are written in their
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likeness and it's not to attack people
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of color or to say they shouldn't be
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given opportunities it is simply to say
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I read a book once and I was imagining
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the way this character looked in fact I
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was told exactly what this character
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looked like and in in the sense of Harry
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Potter and how to train your dragon
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there is a world built around these
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characters that is also hinting maybe a
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little bit of a a certain race and maybe
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I should look into that and think what
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do those characters look like and most
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importantly how have they been described
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to me and when we are reading books and
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and works of of fiction and non-fiction
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we are building these characters in our
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brains and when you see the casting and
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it is in no way shape or form what you
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predicted and it's also not motivated by
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anything genuine it's motivated by this
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massive push within Hollywood fight for
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this fabricated diversity equity and
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inclusion it makes you feel a little bit
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off and I don't think it's going to
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impact how well this show does it's just
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to say that as a fan watching it you're
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going to have to suspend your your
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disbelief a little bit or get used to
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something that you haven't been used to
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because you were used to the actual
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source material but that's the
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unfortunate world that we're living in
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now where Hollywood takes on something
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says that they respect the source
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material and then tries to switch it as
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much as they possibly can whilst getting
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by and making sure that they maintain
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their numbers and if they can inject a
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little bit of ideology into it they will
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also do that and I think a lot of people
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thought with this Harry Potter series
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because JK rling is working so closely
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on it that they wouldn't have to deal
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with those issues she seems pretty
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reasonable in in her personal life and
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in her online takes when it comes to
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culture and politics and they thought
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maybe she wasn't going to have this
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happen on her project but alas it has
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happened we don't know with whether or
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not it's happened with her green light
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or or not but here it is and if you're
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really caught on the Race part of of
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this argument I'll give you another
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example that has nothing to do with race
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a really big box office movie that came
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out recently was it ends with us this
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was based on the Colleen Hoover film
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women and young women in particular were
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really excited to watch this romance
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that was also about domestic violence
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play out on screen and they were waiting
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for the characters Lily bro Bloom and uh
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Riley or Riley's whatever his name is
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now when they saw the casting come out
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they realized this is not at all what I
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thought lily bloom looked like it is not
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at all what I thought riy look like and
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it's just something that when you go to
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the theater you have to
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go that's not what I was expecting but
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now I have to accept this and uh go
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about my business if I want to consume
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this piece of media and that's exactly
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what's happening here and not only is it
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just something that the audience now has
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to get over it's not exactly fair to the
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actors that you're placing in this role
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one you're placing them in controversy
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um whether or not you believe that
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controversy is rightful or not is is on
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you I I can't uh you know change that
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opinion for you I can only tell you how
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I feel but on top of that there are
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roles that are created with this
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person's likeness with their talent with
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their ability and if want diversity
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equity and inclusion maybe we should
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just start creating things that are
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diverse and uh inclusive and Equitable
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although I don't agree with that but if
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that's what you want do it create it
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make it and then cast characters in
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those roles instead of putting them in
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the hot seat and casting them with a
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character that they don't fit the
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description of and when it comes to
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Harry Potter and the discourse around
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this streaming series I saw a lot of
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Fans Say please don't even make it I
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don't need to see this it's too soon
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you're going to make all these changes
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and then another set of fans said you
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know what this is an opportunity to get
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deeper into the Harry Potter World we
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can learn more we can expand on parts of
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the books that we didn't quite get to
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see in the movies and now I think that
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second set of fans is feeling a little
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bit of regret and I will say I feel less
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strongly about this than I do about
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people who are claiming to give
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historical depictions of certain people
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that actually existed and then
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completely race swapping or gender
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swapping them and I think there's a
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gradient on these issues when we are
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confronted with them when we see them
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and particularly with entertainment that
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we have you know a soft spot in our
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heart for and we've liked and we've
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grown up on and I think that's what
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people are experiencing with this new
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Harry Potter streaming series and I
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completely understand it so those are my
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thoughts let me know down below I have
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not read the Harry Potter books I've
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only seen a few of the movies so I'm not
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deeply entrenched in this world if you
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are how do you feel about this Sous
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Snape casting do do you like it do you
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dislike it and tell me exactly why as
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always if you disagree with anything I
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said in this video do get outp put you
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