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This guy was really good on the daily show
Underrated comedian
The guy with 3 accounts or Sarah Silverma?
I was mistaken for Jack black at a rave in December... I have a beard and am overweight. That's all it took. And drugs. I'm assuming and drugs...
Zio making a racist joke? I'm shocked. \s
I just read her controversies section on wiki. I wasn't aware of most of it, but the Zionism is especially disappointing.
I didn't know either, huge bummer
Loved this guy in Parks and Rec
I would be very careful being brown around Sarah Silverman
Yeah, I really liked her until the whole "genocide is cool because of my superstition" bullshit
Oh hey look it's the genocide supporter Sarah Silverman
Me: "who are any of these people?"
Things they're best known for:
Dinesh from Silicon Valley
Raj from Big Bang Theory
Kumar from Harold and Kumar, and also the Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement during the Obama Administration
I would say that Kumail Nanjiani might also be well-known these days for being the guy who had a role in the Marvel flop "Eternals," and a subsequently hilarious press junket and social media tour.
And Kal Penn was also Dr. Kutner in "House MD," which was mostly notable because his character was suddenly and unceremoniously killed off so that Penn could go work for Obama.
Silicon Valley was pretty big when it was on. Now Kumail is just in everything. Can catch his voice in a ton of animated stuff, too.
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Silverman from supporting genocide.
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The second guy was in the big bang theory and the third guy was in Dr. House, idk who the first guy is
Sir or madam the third one is Kumar, he went to White Castle long before he applied to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital
Kumail Nanjiani is a comedian and actor. He was in Silicon Valley and more recently he got shredded for Marvel's Eternals. He's pretty funny.
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Eh, it took me years to tell Claire Danes apart from Gwyneth Paltrow and I think there are a couple other actresses that I may also be thinking are Claire or Gwyneth. It isn't "they don't recognize different brown people" as much as there are many doppelgangers in the world.
You need to get checked for prosopagnosia.
In the '80s it was Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds for me.
Jaime Pressly and Margot Robbie but I don't think the people in the OP look alike.
What about Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastaine?
However for white celebrities, it seems to be the exception. For celebrities of colour, it's a common experience.
I can’t speak to the gamut of white celebrities but I could pick Bryce Dallas Howard’s butt out of any lineup
You shouldn't pick butts. You'll get a smelly finger.
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I never understood people who can't tell look-a-likes apart. Sure, some people look very much alike, but it doesn't take long to pick up on the small details. Only time I was a bit confused was when I started in college and a girl in my class had a twin who was in the class next door, but I didn't know for the first few days so I had one deja vu experience after the other. Haha. But it didn't take long before I could tell them apart from a mile away.
Prosopagnosia - face-blindness - is a real thing, that is especially common with autistic folks. Personally I struggle a lot with faces, but I can learn to recognize the faces of people, that I interact often with (still, sometimes I cannot recognize my partner from pictures, for example). Some people cannot learn faces at all.
That being said, in cases like these, it is definitely racism.
yeah I have a hard time telling apart people with similarly shaped faces, but having looked up these 3 actors, they look completely different
Ironically I have the opposite problem, I'm so bad with faces that I worked with two twins and never knew they were twins because their mannerisms were so different
Don't forget how casually racist the average 'Murican is
These actors barely count as humans to most of them
And disappointingly, Silverman is fine with a slightly different group of brown humans being wiped out
A lot of Americans just live in rural mostly white areas. I'd say most aren't intentionally maliciously racist, but painfully ignorant.
USAians were raised on sterotypes. We dont neccesarily think they are all bad or make people less per se.
But we have also been raised on fear with a nationalism subtext.
And the convolution of the two makes a lot of default bigots without a community showing humans are all just people.
Kumail literally had a stand up bit when he was much less well known about being called "Kumar" and how he dreams of the day that he is the goto point of reference that racists use to stereotype other brown people and himself. So Kal should proud of that, at least.
Also, I work with a lot of Middle Eastern and Indian people with a wide variety of names. It is weird that these three celebrities talking about being mistaken for each other all have names starting with K, containing an A, and ending with L. Kumail, Kunal, and Kal. Maybe it's not so much about them being mistaken for each other but switching similar names around, like white guys called Kayden, Brayden, and Layden.
I wonder how good we are at distinguishing those Chris actors compared to distinguishing the actors in the OP.
Haha thanks Wiki, there’s a name:
It says here that Chris Pratt wants people to call him CP
I can't believe they put CP in the Mario movie
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I could only identify Chris Pratt in a line up. I struggle to differentiate between Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling. Then again, I’ve only been to the cinema 6 times in the past decade. Any celebrity news sounds like “curtains for Zoosha” to me.
They show movies on the TV now! You don't even need to leave your house.
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Holy shit people, is this whole thread satire, or are you all basically confirming what they are talking about
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