Social justice superiority headcanons is a really good term for this, and it's one of my major fandom dislikes as well.
I saw a tumblr post just the other day that was a few people arguing whether or not a certain Japanese media character should be portrayed as Asian or white, because according to them he's "clearly mixed race". There was this huge argument over whether it was better for him to be an evil white colonizer (not exaggerating) or an Asian guy (bc then it's like he was subjugating his own people, which is super deep and parallels real world conflicts)
a) His parentage is DELIBERATELY AMBIGUOUS b) people in that universe aren't "Asian" or "white" because Asia doesn't fucking exist c) we have no idea what "race" any of his possible parents are d) everyone else in the world defaults to "fantasy-Japanese" so whyyyy would he or any of his parents be white?!
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I saw a tumblr post just the other day that was a few people arguing whether or not a certain Japanese media character should be portrayed as Asian or white, because according to them he's "clearly mixed race". There was this huge argument over whether it was better for him to be an evil white colonizer (not exaggerating) or an Asian guy (bc then it's like he was subjugating his own people, which is super deep and parallels real world conflicts)
a) His parentage is DELIBERATELY AMBIGUOUS b) people in that universe aren't "Asian" or "white" because Asia doesn't fucking exist c) we have no idea what "race" any of his possible parents are d) everyone else in the world defaults to "fantasy-Japanese" so whyyyy would he or any of his parents be white?!