[ SECRET POST #3709 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3709 ⌋

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[ketita]

I'm not familiar with these characters or these fandoms, but I think that it's important to consider that a side effect of more non-white characters on shows is that you're going to have more non-white characters that are disliked. In the sense that there are a lot of characters who are disliked just for whatever reason, and if there are more non-white characters, then that also gives more non-white characters the opportunity to fall into this category.
Sure, maybe there's a racial component. Maybe there's an unconscious racial bias. But I think that generally it's not productive to always search for 'extenuating' reasons for why a character isn't liked. Sometimes people just don't like them.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, especially if a show try to have as diverse a cast as possible. A character that's poorly written and/or acted is going to be disliked even if they belong to every "privileged" or "oppressed" class in the book. It's the same reason why a good chunk people didn't like Laurel Lance to stay on the topic of Arrow. It wasn't misogyny that made people hate her. If that was the case people would hate Sara, Felicity, and Thea but they don't. In fact, people loved Sara so much they brought her back from the dead and made her a lead on a different show. Laurel's character was badly handled from day one and it didn't help that her actress only had chemistry with her dad and sister's actors. Sometimes a creative team fucks up and an audience notices by not liking a character.