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Again, it's a fucking movie, not a life or death situation for "non-white" people. If an actor kinda looks like a certain historical character and does a good job at portraying it it's OK. Again, the white American portraying a Mongolian part definitely doesn't follow at least one of these conditions.
Next up "Florida man defends holywood using black-face to the death" citing " just as long as the actor did a good job" yehaaaw
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule
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