Does anyone's feel racial equality goes a bit too far sometimes?

The problem is this isn't the first time something like this has come up The film Dunkirk was criticised for not having Black characters if you look at the photos from That operation you'll see very few if any Black Asian or Chinese faces so why would they be in the film.

I don't mean people from other races shouldn't have certain jobs or are inn any way less important than anyone else that would be totally wrong but this story here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-45978590 it seems the main problem The twitter user had was that it was all white men well to be honest in those days (the time it depicts) it was mostly white men in university.

If it was honouring The British Empires soldiers I could see that but it's not it's honouring The Southampton University students who made the ultimate sacrifice for their, my country.

The problem is this isn't the first time something like this has come up The film Dunkirk was criticised for not having Black characters if you look at the photos from That operation you'll see very few if any Black Asian or Chinese faces so why would they be in the film.

By all means if there're stories about Black soldiers in WW2 then those stories should be told and made into a film but most of those soldiers were diploid in Africa not Europe so it would be a different film wouldn't it not forgetting focusing on the Black soldiers would put the focus on racism changing the focus of the film.

by all means have Black Chinese Asian or any other race or gender in art and films or any other media but don't change things if it's not needed like the painting in Southampton and other things.

Is that because other ethnicities weren't there, or because other ethnicities weren't deemed worthy of being recorded?

Hint; they were definitely there.

People are turning into snowflakes is actually becoming annoying. Multiculturalism wasn’t as common as it is these days!

Oh, it's time for Iconoclastic Post Of The Day.

Bit early, isn't it? It's not even 8pm!

It's either that they weren't there or they weren't deemed worthy of being recorded but if it's the latter then why it it a problem if the stories aren't told if there not recorded how are the filmmakers meant to know them. Also it's got to flow in a film and i feel a plot focusing on racism which lets face it that the aspect they would have focused on (it is Hollywood after all). would have been a bit jarring in Dunkirk don't you.

The mural wasn’t painted for Southampton. It was to commemorate all British (in the sense of Britain at the time so including the empire) students who died in the Great War. It was unfinished and donated to Southampton after no one would fund its completion.

From 2005-2014 it was covered by plasterboard. Prior to 1996ish it was in the staff bar. So it’s not like it has been venerated for most of its existence!

by all means have Black Chinese Asian or any other race or gender in art and films or any other media but don't change things if it's not needed like the painting in Southampton and other things.

Have them when it fits the historical reality and proportion of the image to said reality.
I don't suppose it would be good if we had movie about Nazi Germany with Blacks and Jews in SS.

I know right I really hate that or when a character is made gay or trans for no other reason than to be politically inclusive by all means if it’s vital to the story or something but like in Star Trek there was no reason for Sulu (is that spelt right) to be gay it was just a box ticking exercize

I know right I really hate that or when a character is made gay or trans for no other reason than to be politically inclusive by all means if it’s vital to the story or something but like in Star Trek there was no reason for Sulu (is that spelt right) to be gay it was just a box ticking exercize

Too much equality - who would have thought? I mean - these minorities should know their place right?