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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-11-25 06:48 pm

[ SECRET POST #2884 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2884 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-11-26 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Well put, that's how it goes, IME. The argument gets a little tiresome as a whole but I hope that writers take away the significant bits: POCs were/are everywhere, feel free to include them if you want.

The problem is that "but-but historical accuracy!" is often used as an excuse for why you can't possibly have POCs in a setting, and then people enter into some sort of weird Justify My White Characters Olympics where they try to come up with scenarios where there were definitely no POCs. Geez, why bother? If you want to write all white characters, do it. No need to pull up "evidence" to prove why that's justified. But also, realize that there are very, very few situations where POCs didn't exist and could not possibly exist in the context of a fictional story, so just let that argument die.