Also wow, including people of color in stories when their characterization isn’t defined by their skin is in no way tokenism, it’s just not being racist. Unless the ‘pigtown’ where your stories take place is an imaginary place with no minorities, that’s fine I guess, but if they actually appear, except only to inflict a punishment on somebody, that’s worrisome. I don’t think it would be hard to sneak in a PoC into one of your photo captions, without even mentioning what his skin looks like.

Yeah, remember when I said whitewashing sucks? I’m well aware that it sucks for all these reasons. But claiming “I’m less racist because all of my stories include at least one minority character who ‘exists’, even if their roles in the story are ‘snuck in’ and marginal” is *also* a terrible argument to try and make.

I’m bad at it. I get that. I’m working on it, and generally failing. 

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