[ SECRET POST #5038 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5038 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Disagree. The experience of being a visible minority isn’t nothing. Adding that to a character’s lived experience is fairly significant, IMO.

[(Anonymous)]

This. You can't just racebend a character without changing pretty much their entire life experience. And if you do, you're woefully naive and doing it for all the wrong reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

+ 1

[(Anonymous)]

OP - Yes, this is definitely a part of it for me. I come in with a clear sense of the character's lived experience and how it has shaped them. Then, with a racebend, I have to subtly but pervasively rethink their lived experience. And since I will freely admit that racial prejudice is not one of the forms of prejudice I have experience with, and having cultural roots that are not broadly reflected by the culture around me is also not something I have experience with, my deeper understanding of the character can feel a little blurry.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, not every culture reflects/discusses/thinks about every concept in the exact same way. Our cultural upbringing tends to shape the specific perspective we approach things from. I don't even mean religion or anything like that (although that can be a part of the picture as well). I mean just general cultural trends in perspective and philosophy.

[(Anonymous)]

You're right, having a POC who didn't experience typical racism for the setting would be so unrealistic. Unlike evil cartoonish foster families who make a child live under the stairs and go to great lengths to make their neighbors unaware that he exists despite the massive inconvenience and trouble with social services that would cause. Also unlike wizards.

[(Anonymous)]

Racism isn't the only way one experiences their race, you ninny.

[(Anonymous)]

And not all racism is blatant or obvious, either. It's things like watching someone walk in at work, look between me (white) and my black coworker, and choose to come over to me for help instead of them. Those sorts of things are part of being POC.