Obviously I’m against this, but someone I know recently said something to the effect of, “if it’s a real person having their history altered (i.e. Joan of arc, Julius Caesar, Mary of Anjou) I agree it’s a problem, but if it’s a fictional character (like all of these, numerous marvel characters, Ariel which started the conversation, even brought up how Morgan Freeman’s Red in the shawshank redemption was white in the book) then it doesn’t matter. The character isn’t real, they had no race, no homeland, no culture other than whatever was dreamed up by their creator, and it makes no difference if someone else later decides to dream them up differently.”
Without getting into the depths of white genocide and why this is a real problem, which I don’t think this guy is anywhere near ready to hear, I couldn’t come up with a legitimate reason why changing the race of a fictional character who never existed is a problem.
Any entry-level, pre-JQ responses to this? Curious to hear
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