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Trolls galore as woke critic Kathia Woods says White actors 'cosplay as people of color' in 'Avatar 2'

'Kathia_woods is 100% right! We need real aliens to play aliens. No humans appropriating alien cultures,' a user joked

Entertainment journalist Kathia Woods has been heavily criticized online over her accusation of 'Avatar: The Way of Water' of 'cultural appropriation' stating that the film's White actors were cast by its director James Cameron to 'cosplay as people of color'. 

Woods, a freelance film critic, took to Twitter to comment on the film's cast dressing up to portray people of color as she claims. The critic who has written for The Philadelphia Tribune and Buzzfeed News tweeted: "At some point we gotta talk about the cultural appropriation of Avatar and white actors are cos playing as poc. It's just a mess and so not necessary & no amount of visual effects/CGI is gonna erase that. Bad lace fronts/dry synthetic braids. Jesus fix it."

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The journalist has now made her Twitter account private following her controversial tweet on December 19, but many bird app users have shared screen grabs of her tweet to slam it as too much 'woke'. Woods was also criticized for not noticing the fact that some of the characters played in the movie are Black actors, including Zoe Saldana, Laz Alonso and Bailey Bass as well as Maori actor Cliff Curtis.

A user tweeted: "@kathia_woods is 100% right! We need real aliens to play aliens. No humans appropriating alien cultures," and another user wrote: "@kathia_woods seriously? Come on you must know this is ridiculous, right? It's a sci-fi movie. We know the inspiration behind it, but it doesn't represent them. These are supposed to be blue aliens; nothing more, nothing less"

Upset at the critic not identifying the characters, a tweet read: "Really?? @kathia_woods is upset that a made up society of BLUE people who fly on backs of made up animals, in a made up world is now culturally inappropriate!!! Wow! Left or right, this is sad to be human. I guess worse if ur a blue person not being cast in ur own culture."

"At some point we gotta talk about how wokeness and people like Kathia Woods are ruining the entertainment industry with takes like this. People so bitter they can’t enjoy a fantasy film and it’s message. Americans and their rabid race politics infecting the western world," said a user while another wrote, "Something seriously wrong with these people. Of course she limited who could see the tweet because even @kathia_woods knows how pathetic it was, don’t you Kathia?"and a user called Woods a "woke drone" wrote: "You can never satisfy woke drones like @kathia_woods, they will always find some way to accuse you of being an istphobeismynist. They don’t seek to have racism/isms be gone, they seek to perpetrate it until the other side become the oppressed. Only then will they be satisfied."

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