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Let's start this off bluntly: J.J. Abrams, Bad Robot Productions, Paramount Pictures, and Viacom are complicit in an instance of giving a character of color role to a white man. That sucks and there is no excuse for it. I would like to point out, however, that the character of Khan was a dictator, and there are deeper cultural and political ramifications to his backstory now. Read on.

( On White-Washing and problematic Hollywood casting. )