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It's Time for Easter Beatings!: Fantasy Genre and POC

sourcedumal:

ai-yo:

I find it sooo damn funny when White people use the whole “it’s historical, you darkies weren’t there” and blah blah blah reason to justify the exclusion of POC from fantasy fiction. Yet when POC have just the one fantasy book, or game about them White people want…

This is a good point.  I figured the people of Earthsea were supposed to be most similar to Pacific Islanders, although maybe the Kargads were whiter?  I don’t know.  It’s been a while since I read those.

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    Earthsea were supposed...Pacific Islanders, although maybe
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    Because this needs to be reblogged a gazillion times, at least.
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    will never EVER understand “noo it’s not historicallll” because yes, yes it was. People
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    POC ain’t supposed to have nothing in this world or the fantasy worlds created.
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