The Onion

4584 readers

604 users here now

The Onion

A place to share and discuss stories from The Onion, Clickhole, and other satire.

Great Satire Writing:

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

seahorse@midwest.social

pbrisgreat@midwest.social

518

Fictional alien time travellers can’t be black, insist morons (newsthump.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Nero@sopuli.xyz to c/theonion@midwest.social

88 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I feel the same way.

There's always going to be dickheads on the internet, and I think in this case it's a very small group and of that group you could probably count on one had that are actually Dr. Who fans, if there's any at all.

If it were a significant percentage of fans then there might be something to talk about. But this seems another case of people that don't know anything about a show and just seeing a black actor being cast in a role what was previously played by a white actor and making racist hay.

Anyone that knows anything about Dr. Who knows the established lore allows any actor of any race or gender can play the part.