[ SECRET POST #3016 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3016 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Except she's really not, though. She's what a young British boy of a particular time period would imagine, in his pretend world, a beautiful Indian maiden would be. I hate that there can be no room for innocence, imagination, or even context in a world where everything is OMG offensive.

[(Anonymous)]

A young British boy of a particular time period imagines a racist stereotype. It makes sense in context, yes, but it's still a racist stereotype. Innocence and imagination is all well and good, but I hardly think it's grievously injured by admitting that the Indians of Peter Pan are offensive to modern readers and watchers.

[(Anonymous)]

I get what you're saying, but historical context is a thing. We know now that kids never should have played "Cowboys and Indians", for example. It's innocent imagination, yes-- but it's an image based in a horrifically racist caricature embraced by society at the time. There's no excuse in perpetuating it.

[(Anonymous)]

Except she is. She's a fictional character written by an adult. And even if it were a real little boy's fantasy, that fantasy can still be racist. I mean, if I have fantasies about prancing around naked with Natives while they smoke and eat babies, but I enlighten them with my power to predict eclipses and they worship me as a god, does that make me not racist just because it's a fantasy?

Sure, a kid can have an innocent fantasy, but that doesn't mean his perceptions aren't racist stereotypes. I might not call the kid racist, but his fantasies definitely can be.