[ SECRET POST #4691 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4691 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, yes, that's literally true. But I think there's also an obvious sense in which the anthrophomorphized animal characters in a story set in Africa that often uses traditional African elements and where the lead character has a Swahili name are drawing on African human beings, and so making human versions of those characters African is a fairly obvious choice, not some kind of absurd wild jump that people are making that fandom could not have possibly had a clue about.

I mean, come on.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS.

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It isn't that I disagree that using models of African descent isn't appropriate, it's that using non-American models is inappropriate. They're still literally lions, not humans, linguistics aside. I perfectly support defaulting towards black models, but I'd stop at calling it racist to use other models.

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Mte

[(Anonymous)]

I don't actually think it's racist! I just think that the excuses people are making lean a little too close to "why would you even think the characters should be African in the first place" to be plausible