i was gonna respond to someone on a different post of mine but i decided not to start a fight today so i’m just gonna make a whole new post.
so, genuine question for some of you: do you think when dc is drawing damian to look like bruce 2.0 they’re doing it to accurately represent arab people who “look european”? especially when ra’s and talia (who are also chinese btw) are often not drawn the same way? do you think dc NEEDS more representation for light skinned, european looking people of color? do you think the fact that dc constantly dogs on the al ghuls and damian’s culture even in his fucking aapi celebration comic may have something to do with him being drawn to look like his “good” white father rather than his “bad” brown mother/grandfather? the argument that “some arab people look european” is not relevant here because damian wayne is not a real person. he is representative of the beliefs and the biases of the people who write and draw him. and as it stands right now a vast majority of dc creatives are firmly against the al ghuls and are, at the VERY least, culturally insensitive. some of you are missing the point so severely.
