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I'd recommend looking into a phenomenon known as 'racefail 09'. It was a large fandom-wide discussion on dated depictions of non-majority demographics (focused
by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
I'd recommend looking into a phenomenon known as 'racefail 09'. It was a large fandom-wide discussion on dated depictions of non-majority demographics (focused mostly on race, thus the name). Several of today's big authors were part of racefail '09 when it happened and its effect is still visible on modern scifi.
- ergothus 7y agoThank you for this - a ton to digest, and a lot of thought-provoking material here.
- SolaceQuantum 7y agoYou're very welcome. I'm glad it happened now, but at the time, it was a flamewar to rival all flamewars.
- baud147258 7y agoFrom a cursory look, if you're white and write a PoC character, you're racist. And if you're white and don't write a PoC character you're also racist. Cool.
- SolaceQuantum 7y agoWas this comment made in good faith?
- baud147258 7y agoMaybe yes, maybe not. Edit: it was low-tier shitposting. I'll let you judge what it means in the context of your question.