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Typical Fan Microaggressions That #POCs Deal With All The Time



"I don't think people who "white-wash" are being white supremacist Jesus you act like people who use white FC [faceclaims] are the freaking KKK Please calm your tits and or balls because this is ROLEPLAY, Okay?!?!?!?! By calling people out on their "white-washing" you're not changing the world."

This is about roleplaying on a social media site and what image someone uses to create their character, also called a faceclaim. It is unknown if this individual is a person of color (POC), but it seems he or she is angry about making some character white when they are not. Unsure what the complaint is about.

People are free to use what every faceclaim (image of their character) they want, however in this microagression complaint it seems to come from a casual privilege that disparages people of color faceclaims and/or characters. That is unfortunate and puts a bad taste in fellow roleplay partners and the social media.

What does this have to do with Star Wars? POC fans of Star Wars who roleplay encounter this ALL THE TIME!

Edited to add:

Whitewashing as described on Know Your Meme regarding the movie Frozen and the ethnicity of the Sami Scandinavian people. The social justice bloggers are saying that one of the main characters, Elsa would appear like this if Disney were to be accurate about the geography.