I heard about the leaked live-action Powerpuff Girls trailer (a canceled series from The CW). The trailer is pretty bad. It looked like someone at CW was trying their formula of modernizing IPs and making them more adult/gritty (for example, Riverdale, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina [this was originally supposed to be CW], Nancy Drew, Tom Swift), but they made it really silly, because, it's the Powerpuff Girls.

Anyway, I heard about the trailer, but it took me a little bit of time to finally find it. I found it in a Reddit thread, but one of the top comments on the thread was something like "Looks like a DEI cast."

Yes, there are non-white actors in the cast. Two of the girls are played by Chloe Bennet and Yana Perrault, and Prof. Utonium was played by Donald Faison. I don't know have much to say about Chloe Bennet or Yana Perrault, but Donald Faison is a brilliant actor, and I can't imagine anybody actually complaining about him being cast in any comedic role.

But apparently if you take a cartoon character who originally appeared white, and cast anybody but a white actor, it's suddenly a DEI hire. Yeah, so, tell me you're a racist without telling me you're a racist.

I hate this world.