Please explain why this double standard is pervasive on the left

[BionicBunny]

That is because they specifically refused to cast white actors.

Only for the original cast. Every travel cast as well as the current broadway cast is now multi-racial.

In America it is perfectly fine to employ people based on “No White people allowed” and “ No men allowed”.

In other countries they would call that racism and sexism.

In America it is thought of as a way to end racism and sexism.

I agree with you and that’s why America will always have racism and sexism because you can’t fight racism and sexism with racism and sexism.

[Deleted User 1616]

Is "being white" central to the plot or character of King Arthur?

yes, if the viewer wants to be transported to that particular place and time, its not believable. You could make a modern day adaptation, which many have done with Shakespeare's works (10 things I hate about you is taming of the shrewd) then its less vital, set in a fictional modern multi ethnic place. it is really tiresome that white people are constantly beaten upside the head for the "crime" of being born white and supposedly privileged and told we can't own a Mexican restaurant, cant wear hoop earrings, can't have dreads, can't wear kimono, but other cultures can partake in our culture whenever they want. it's BS and I am sick of it.

However, if the standard for all other cultures/races is that people of a different ethnicity don't have the right to borrow from other's ethnic cultures, it should be be applied consistently.

That's silly. "White" isn't a culture, and king Arthur is British culture, which isn't exclusively white.

WTF? lol. ok, all white people living in south Africa can claim indigenous cultures as their own now? and white people in the USA can claim native american culture as our own culture too? any history that happened prior to other ethnicities immigrating there is not a part of their culture.

[WellPreserved]

yes, if the viewer wants to be transported to that particular place and time, its not believable. You could make a modern day adaptation, which many have done with Shakespeare's works (10 things I hate about you is taming of the shrewd) then its less vital, set in a fictional modern multi ethnic place. it is really tiresome that white people are constantly beaten upside the head for the "crime" of being born white and supposedly privileged and told we can't own a Mexican restaurant, cant wear hoop earrings, can't have dreads, can't wear kimono, but other cultures can partake in our culture whenever they want. it's BS and I am sick of it.

However, if the standard for all other cultures/races is that people of a different ethnicity don't have the right to borrow from other's ethnic cultures, it should be be applied consistently.

That's silly. "White" isn't a culture, and king Arthur is British culture, which isn't exclusively white.

King Arthur is extremely important to British and Celtic, and Druid culture... yes, they were white.

Wasn't Arthur a Roman centurion?

[Frau Holle]

That's silly. "White" isn't a culture, and king Arthur is British culture, which isn't exclusively white.

King Arthur is extremely important to British and Celtic, and Druid culture... yes, they were white.

Wasn't Arthur a Roman centurion?

No, Lucius Artorius Castus was.

Historians theorize that he may have been a basis for a myth. That is not what Celtic and Druidic people believe.

Arthur Pendragon is the Son of Uther Pendragon, who's name itself means of the Welsh earth. In their ancient religion nature was the embodiment of a dragon. The fog is it's breath, the hills are it's back under the ground, the trees can show it's face.

[Frau Holle]

And to those who think it might not matter to people today, this is the Welsh Flag: