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CMV: All these surface-level reforms like making sure black characters are not voiced by non black voice actors are a near worthless distraction.

I can't say it any better than the title. Whether it's deliberate or not, all this performative action like changing the name of streets, removing Ben from Uncle Ben's rice and actors stepping down feels like a distraction and a waste of time when there's still little accountability for police action. Very little societal change will come from The Simpsons changing up their cast. But I've seen more media coverage of these changes than I have of currently ongoing protests. I understand the stated benefit for some of these actions but it feels so cheap and worthless.
gpt
A large part of it is just people changing what they can. The company that owns Uncle Ben's doesn't run the police force, and the people that produce the Simpson's don't have real political power, but both of them changing is a statement that they side with the protestors. Sure, it's pretty much useless compared to politicians actually doing something, but it's better than both continuing as is.

You can't expect one company changing their racist mascot to change society, but you can appreciate the fact that doing so is the company saying "hey, this mascot is probably problematic for people, so we'll change it". They're not changing it thinking it'll bring about complete systemic change, but them changing it does, ever so slightly, help the systemic change along.