Good point. I’m sure they would use the tired “this is a fantasy world you mean you can have magic and wizards but no black/brown ppl?” Which if that’s the case then they can write their own fantasy. But of course they use this excuse to attack actual fans who call them out for bastardizing the source material
Yeah, this is something you see quite a bit - I'm sad to say quite a bit (though not exclusively) from Americans, I suspect because a lot of mediaeval history pre-dates the US even existing.
Most people in the middle ages were insular and provincial - this is something my mother even sees doing her bloody genealogy. People who simply don't know any better will list tentative links between families with the same surname - like "Smith" - hundreds of miles apart, in the 1600s in mainland Europe.
I'm sorry, love, but the truth of the matter is that neither group you say are linked ever saw or even heard of each other before their miserable lives ended far too early. The life of anybody who wasn't either rich enough to go travelling or a soldier or some other occupation that paid you to go travelling was that you stayed at home. That's just the way things were back then. Don't condone it, not foolish enough to close my eyes to it.
Leftists: everything and everyone in the past was irredeemably racist!
Also leftists: how dare you suggest the past wasn’t perfectly representative of my carefully-curated, multiracial, modern-day friend group!
Meanwhile, right now on planet earth, the vast majority of human beings live in highly insular social groups that are ethnically and racially homogeneous. The racial Pokémon champions are not reflective of hardly anyone’s real experiences. That’s why everyone identifies more with a Netflix show starring 99% Asians than we do with shows that are perfectly “diverse”.
Looks at Rangz
... the world you're writing in - well, let's be honest, pissing on - has bloody dragons, how does this reflect the world we live in?
Good point. I’m sure they would use the tired “this is a fantasy world you mean you can have magic and wizards but no black/brown ppl?” Which if that’s the case then they can write their own fantasy. But of course they use this excuse to attack actual fans who call them out for bastardizing the source material
Yeah, this is something you see quite a bit - I'm sad to say quite a bit (though not exclusively) from Americans, I suspect because a lot of mediaeval history pre-dates the US even existing.
Most people in the middle ages were insular and provincial - this is something my mother even sees doing her bloody genealogy. People who simply don't know any better will list tentative links between families with the same surname - like "Smith" - hundreds of miles apart, in the 1600s in mainland Europe.
I'm sorry, love, but the truth of the matter is that neither group you say are linked ever saw or even heard of each other before their miserable lives ended far too early. The life of anybody who wasn't either rich enough to go travelling or a soldier or some other occupation that paid you to go travelling was that you stayed at home. That's just the way things were back then. Don't condone it, not foolish enough to close my eyes to it.
Agreed
Leftists: everything and everyone in the past was irredeemably racist!
Also leftists: how dare you suggest the past wasn’t perfectly representative of my carefully-curated, multiracial, modern-day friend group!
Meanwhile, right now on planet earth, the vast majority of human beings live in highly insular social groups that are ethnically and racially homogeneous. The racial Pokémon champions are not reflective of hardly anyone’s real experiences. That’s why everyone identifies more with a Netflix show starring 99% Asians than we do with shows that are perfectly “diverse”.