The Castlevania Fandom is at odds with each other
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I haven’t seen Castlevania and haven’t played it since the 80s, but isn’t the issue here yet another race swap by a lazy writer?
It's a double bait and switch.
You thought we were going to talk about castlevania shit? Too bad, we are going to rant about rich people using the french revolution as a frame! Sike, we are going to talk about hwitey being evil using the haitian revolution as framing.
Yeah... Castlevania...
I mean you could write an original story about Haiti. All the voodoo could be interesting, but that would require effort. Someone once told me “you just don’t want to face the reality of slavery”. I just said I’m well aware of slavery in the western world. Why not do some story about non western slavery
They are the ones who don't want to face the reality of slavery. Historically mulattos were pro-slavery since they wanted to climb up social status and keep their privileges. Not to mention french colonies had a different caste system from America.
Slaves performed racial purges, ransacking and even raping women and killing children during their uprising but that's something you wouldn't know from this garbage show
They know, they just don't have faith the public would want to watch an original IP about that, so they have to latch onto popular ones like leeches
My personal theory is that they don't want to learn about 'the reality of slavery' because, if they do, they start having to come face to face with the reality that slaves were alot better off in America than any other location.
Arab slave trade? Hello, castration. Central America? Worked to death. Haiti apparently turned into an absolute shithole after the Haiti revolution, despite being one of the richest islands in the Caribbean before hand...
America is the way it is now because they did this weird thing like... keeping families together, or importing women as well as men, allowing them to actually have families and independent side businesses, manumission, not working them to death, and a bunch of other things that are a little bit awkward to learn about when they want to paint a picture of abject horror and misery.
Granted, alot of this stuff is hard to learn about because it's so sparse online, likely on purpose. The last time I had to go researching on the matter, it was very thin on the ground. I'd love to find a reliable source on the death rate for slaves in Central America, for instance, but... meh. I'd have to muster up the energy, and debating people on this stuff is guaranteed to drag straight into the mud.