Athena is black in new season of Percy Jackson
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They hate redheads especially hard for some reason.
I've thought about this a lot, and my current t theory is that redheads parse as "exotic" and they feel entitled to that description.
Whites being exotic undercuts tons of their unearned selfworth
it's white genocide, red hair pale skin is pretty much an identifier of white people, they're sending the message they're not just subtly replacing white characters but white characters who stand out
That makes some sense, but to me that theory would line up better if they targeted blondes specifically.
It could just be that there's more blondes than gingers, so it's harder to 100% exclude them.
Something about the hit rate on gingers makes me think it's more than just anti-white. And I don't mean it's not anti-white, I mean it implies a specific flavor or subset of anti-white rather than the just general
blond is actually a rare trait, only about 5%, mostly northern Europeans, so western stories outside the Nordic sagas will have mostly various shades of red/brown