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Go it. So Black-face sounds absurd to you but Brown-face or Yellow-face doesn't.
Dude stop fighting that strawman. I just said that people may look like historical characters that aren't of their ethnicity, and it's fine to have them as them in a movie. Like, Rami Malek is of Egyptian ancestry and he portrayed Freddie Mercury, who was a Parsi (descendant of Zoroastrians in India), but he did a good job and was well characterized in Bohemian Rhapsody