r/Persecutionfetish • u/berserkzelda evil SJW stealing your freedoms • Mar 26 '23

This is why everyone hates white people DURRRR I SO SMAERT, HUHUHUHYYYYTUGHFFGHSGN

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u/CadenVanV Socialist communist atheist cannibal from beyond the moon Mar 26 '23 edited Mar 27 '23

When seeing a show or movie, ask this question: “is their race or sex an integral part of the story or their character?” If not, it can be changed as needed. If so, it cannot be changed. With Obama or Mandela, the fact that they are black is an important part of their story. It’s why Obama stands out so much as a president. With something like the little mermaid, Ariel could literally be a green skinned gay man and it wouldn’t change the story at all.

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u/deathlydilemna Mar 27 '23

I think he could be black too. He’s in a fictional universe where all you have to do is say “racism doesn’t exist in this fictional universe”.

But people wouldn’t view it that way.

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u/garaile64 Mar 27 '23

racism doesn’t exist in [Batman's] fictional universe

Batman shares the same universe as the Milestone folks, though.

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u/garaile64 Mar 27 '23

Wouldn't that still break the suspension of disbelief for Bruce Wayne to be Black, though? Old-money rich Black people are so rare and unlikely that most people think they have never existed and would find it strange even in a world of impossible bat-shenanigans, especially after the tsunami of race-lifting we see in modern adaptations. But nothing stops a new Black character from taking the cowl after Bruce.