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[-] [email protected] 36 points 4 hours ago

The Witcher isn't in Medieval Poland though, it's in a fantasy land.

Rings of Power was far more dumb because there's black people, but only in a few extremely important roles. Almost as if there's some sort of reverse curse going on, where a baby pops out black, and they immediately make it their king/queen. Or more likely, they realised very late on that they'd made a very white cast, and made a few last minute changes.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

The Witcher isn’t in Medieval Poland though, it’s in a fantasy land.

But Kingdom Come: Deliverance (which takes place in Bohemia; the left part of the Czech Republic; close to Poland) was white A.F. back in 14-something, and people got all mad about the lack of black people as well.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I sometimes think the token representation is on purpose. Riles up the “anti-woke” and means that internet discourse about your show is all about how there’s some black people, not about how shit the writing is.

Like I really don’t give a rats ass if the dwarves are brown or purple or pink. (Although the lack of bearded dwarf women is unacceptable.) The other changes in Rings of Power are actually bad.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

The Witcher isn’t in Medieval Poland though, it’s in a fantasy land.

So by that logic it's fine to make Wakanda full of white people because it's fantasy land right?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean yeah. If the writers wanted to make Wakanda have white people, that would be fine.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Wakkkanda it is.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Sure it would, if the writers had written it that way. South Africa is full of white people, it might have even made sense.

But since they didn't do that, and then wrote their entire storyline around having not done that, this is a poor argument.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Wakanda is supposed to be in Africa, where Uganda is irl.

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