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This reads like "I believe they had ill intents so I won't engage with your point at all and assume they did have ill intents."
Like having not seen it and not being this terminally online, let me look up the cast.
IMDb has (credits in order of list):
These all pass as non-white to me on first glance. Are they the biggest roles or have the most screen time? Idk, I haven't seen it, probably not, but it's far from no representation. Is the cast list overwhelmingly white? Ya, totally. Is this such a bad cast list that I'd go so far as to say it's tokenization? I don't personally think so.
Like I'm not here trying to defend the movie or the industry or the white patriarchy that leads to unjust casting situations but a lot of this issue reads like a bunch of racist white people being racist and your comment reads like a weird over-reaction like the movie didn't go far enough with diversity despite being a Greek fantasy tale that could go pretty much anyway and still be acceptable. Race doesn't seem important to the story at all so the whole cast could have been native American for all I care but like dismissing it as tokenization seems... I guess obviously better than being mad about the non-white cast but still kinda strange. Idk. Would the preference have been a diverse cast of soldiers under Matt Damon? I guess that would have been my preference but even as I write that this seems so silly. I guess it's not silly when we look at it from an industry trends perspective where we need more equitable casting/treatment.
I'm talking in circles. Person A says casting Helen of Troy as black is more than just tokenization, person B says ignoring that I think the casters were being bad people, I'm just saying Person B might not realize they're not actually engaging with Person A's point and they sound a bit illogical. I just want better discussions around terminally online topics so we can beat the distract and rage machine.