Hollywood’s Stunt Industry Grapples With Issues of Race and Skin Color

The latest notion for the offendatarians to ulcerate and hyperventilate over is “black stunt people lightening or darkening their skin to more closely approximate the appearance of the black actor they are standing in for.”  Because if a light-skinned black stunt man darkens his skin to look like a dark-skinned black actor, that’s “black face,” and people lose their careers over that sort of thing.

So, there is an obvious solution: when the actor is a “person of color” and a stunt is called for, replace the stunt people with stunt robots. Nobody, at least so far, has complained of a painting, photograph, wax statue, action figure, etc. of a black person being “black face.” I’m sure it’s coming, of course, but at least not quite yet.

Let’s face it, robots are getting real close to being able to do that sort of thing.

This could be one thing to say in favor of Social Justice Warriors: by raising a stink over stupid stuff, they spur innovation. Robots to replace POC stunt performers, robots and kiosks to replace no-skill burger flippers demanding excessively high minimum wages, etc. And there are already the fembots. Soon there will be true mechanical NPCs taking the place of protestors, marching around, holding signs, repetitively shouting ill-conceived and barely relevant chants, etc.

Soon everyone whose cause is championed by the SJW’s will find themselves to be permanently unemployable.