SloightlyOnTheHuh t1_it7j410 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:32 PM

Reply to comment by Nonamenoonenowhere in Why are black people inexistant in the fantasy/sci-fi genre by hater_first

Seriously? That's really sad. Surely if asked to identify a talk dark handsom man you would think first of a POC. If an author is not specific I interpret how I see fit. Try so Olivia E Butler. She doesn't always describe her characters a black but a lot of them are clearly POC. There are undoubtedly some racist authors out there. They are people too but there are a lot who just write a good story.

Edit octavia rather than Olivia?

mongreldogchild t1_it7s4bf wrote on October 21, 2022 at 3:33 PM

OP gives an example of this. White is the default in media. It's how our society runs. Look at the OP, they gave an example of how people lashed out when their perception ran counter to reality because they assumed the default.

Bubbagumpredditor t1_it7s8h4 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 3:34 PM

>That's really sad.

Yeah, it is. That's decades/centuries of exclusion working. Shit goes deep in the culture