No, I'm not playing strawman, meself. I know about the ten (eleven, twelve) rubbish bad arguments. The only two I can usually remember the right terms for without looking the bloody things up are strawman & ad hominem.

I certainly don't wish to attack the arguer (if I gently chide Sandman (I hope I gently chide, Sandman! ;-) ), I've seen enough of his posting to think he might well have a chuckle & concede that that one could have been... phrased differently? ;-)

As for strawman, no. I am not either trying to distract or obscure. If you want to dig a little deeper, my logical debating point would be that the original was not a single argument. If you're going to argue that black actors & actresses should be able to portray traditionally "white" (or whatever) roles, you also have to consider the question of what happens with the casting of non-whatever in whatever roles (black, male, whatever).

I'm not meaning to set up a strawman; I'm saying "this is a facet of the gem of human experience that has not yet been considered / implied by the original question; consider it now alongside…

If you see what I mean? ;-)