I don’t personally know anyone who has problems with non-white characters. The problem is a lack of originality (often a product of laziness). The episode made a great job of pointing out this important distinction.
I don’t personally know anyone who has problems with non-white characters.
Unfortunately, I do and I’m not just talking about the online communities that are actually bigoted.
I’m from the southern United States. I have family members and routinely meet people that will go on racist tirades about representation in media being an agenda for “white genocide”. They will use “logical” arguments to hide their racism and then immediately expose their true feelings. They’ll say shit like “Why don’t they just make original characters and stories?” and then refuse to watch movies/shows that do, soley because they aren’t white.
This happens with any minority led production.
Gay representation is the worst magnet for this behavior because then their argument will always boil down to religion which literally can’t be reasoned with.
However it’s also fascinating how misogyny can sometimes fold in onto itself as a lot of men here will do this shit against any female led media and actively ruin relationships with the women here because a lot of women actually enjoy these productions.
The cherry on top is that these people will actively enjoy any media that portrays minorities as stereotypes and a punchline but will immediately groan when they’re portrayed as normal people.
I don’t know anyone personally who would have a problem but we’re on the internet and you can definitely find people angry at even original casting.
To go back in time, Sisko from Star Trek was definitely an unpopular casting.
To come to a more recent time, Finn from the newer Star Wars film. He was shown in the trailer to be the next jedi, to sort of mislead the audience to not think it was 100% going to be Rey, and the comments from a lot of people echo similar to what you see folks get upset with in regards to race swaps. But in that case, people felt like it was an attack on their fandom for having a diverse lead character.
I agree with the notion that an original character is always the way to go but a lot of folks will find any excuse in the book to dogpile against diversity. Example being GoT House of the Dragon, or even better example LOTR (that cruddy Amazon show. Having a black elf was the least of its worries with how shitty that story was).
I don’t personally know anyone who has problems with non-white characters. The problem is a lack of originality (often a product of laziness). The episode made a great job of pointing out this important distinction.
To preface, I agree with you about originality.
Unfortunately, I do and I’m not just talking about the online communities that are actually bigoted.
I’m from the southern United States. I have family members and routinely meet people that will go on racist tirades about representation in media being an agenda for “white genocide”. They will use “logical” arguments to hide their racism and then immediately expose their true feelings. They’ll say shit like “Why don’t they just make original characters and stories?” and then refuse to watch movies/shows that do, soley because they aren’t white.
This happens with any minority led production.
Gay representation is the worst magnet for this behavior because then their argument will always boil down to religion which literally can’t be reasoned with.
However it’s also fascinating how misogyny can sometimes fold in onto itself as a lot of men here will do this shit against any female led media and actively ruin relationships with the women here because a lot of women actually enjoy these productions.
The cherry on top is that these people will actively enjoy any media that portrays minorities as stereotypes and a punchline but will immediately groan when they’re portrayed as normal people.
They ain’t gonna hear you
I don’t know anyone personally who would have a problem but we’re on the internet and you can definitely find people angry at even original casting.
To go back in time, Sisko from Star Trek was definitely an unpopular casting.
To come to a more recent time, Finn from the newer Star Wars film. He was shown in the trailer to be the next jedi, to sort of mislead the audience to not think it was 100% going to be Rey, and the comments from a lot of people echo similar to what you see folks get upset with in regards to race swaps. But in that case, people felt like it was an attack on their fandom for having a diverse lead character.
I agree with the notion that an original character is always the way to go but a lot of folks will find any excuse in the book to dogpile against diversity. Example being GoT House of the Dragon, or even better example LOTR (that cruddy Amazon show. Having a black elf was the least of its worries with how shitty that story was).