I’m having a huge problem with liberals not understanding what a “black person” is. Sure there were africans in europe, but those africans were either traveling or enslaved, or people with very special circumstances that you must explain. They weren’t “british”, they weren’t immigrants. You can’t have some character be black and a nobleman from England in the 19th century without giving some context cause yeah that wasn’t the norm.
“Black people existed”, the whole concept of blackness is so new, mentioning it is anachronistic.
And the whole “north africa” argument. North africans were considered white until 2 years ago when the US decided Arabs are not white anymore. Stop it with your fake “inclusion” as if people only exist when they step onto your continent. Write your damn fic in africa. Write about actual african characters, and actual asian characters, they don’t have to step in america/europe to exist.
People who believe that north africans and indians are interchangeable cause “both brown” are telling us to “celebrate the inclusivity”. We are already in our media, we didn’t stop existing cause western media didn’t have “people of color” or whatever other ridiculous term you want to throw at 80% of the frickin globe population.
If it’s fantasy explain how this reality is different from the one we’re living in. If it’s “historical” then have it make sense in the historical context. You can’t just have characters “happen to be an ethnicity from a different continent”. That shit was not the norm. Some places in africa still freak out if they see a white person, most chinese people haven’t seen a black person, and you think 18th century Europe was “open”?
Anyway, history exists, read on it or decide to go with a whole different reality and it would be nice to see why in that reality Africa wasn’t plundered by europe and why europeans in that reality considered them equal, or whatever the race situation is in that fictional work. Whatever else you’re doing is a cop out and dumb.
I’m gonna stop here cause that whole is so ridiculous.
Octavia E Butler wrote about a time traveling black woman who found herself a century ago and guess what, she was taken as a slave. Cause that’s the fuckin context of history.
PS: read an actual book that was written before 1930, not “historical fiction released in the 2020s” and read how the europeans spoke about non-europeans. Like get a clue about reality before throwing your 2 cents.
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