[ SECRET POST #6065 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6065 ⌋

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I'm trying to be as delicate as possible I promise.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen the "Oppenheimer doesn't have a single Japanese character!" argument floating around. And like...

We know how that story ends. If you wanna revisit it, watch a documentary.

I think Asian representation is (trying) to move away from the stereotypical roles. I don't know how many would want to be in that story. Does that make sense?

I think white people are in a period of trying to reconcile with the atrocities they've done while POC are trying to move out of it because they've been mired in it for so long.

I haven't seen Oppenheimer, so I don't know how glorifying/white man's burden-y it is.

Re: I'm trying to be as delicate as possible I promise.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I honestly don't think the kind of white people who focus on these sorts of things are trying to "reconcile with atrocity" at all. As far as I can tell, their perspectives usually wind up being a different, slightly more benevolent form of racism. It's more a way to feel smug and jockey for status among other white people.

Also, when it comes to WWII, white people weren't the only ones to commit atrocity. The Japanese committed a fair bit of it, themselves, against Filopinos and the Chinese (which is why Chinese people get so angry when, in Western cinema, a Chinese actor plays a Japanese character, or a Japanese actor plays a Chinese character. The bad blood lingers). This does not mean that America gets a pass for dropping the bomb, but it does mean that the reality is more complicated than evildoers vs. pure innocents.

I think it is true that POC in general are trying to move out of it. There have been some complaints out of the publishing world in particular, wherein writers of color feel pressure (often overt, and often from white editors and executives) to focus on racism and race-based trauma in their stories, even when that's not what they want to write.