Timeline for In modern Sci-Fi/Fantasy, does real world racism need to be addressed?
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| Dec 29, 2019 at 18:32 | comment | added | gen-ℤ ready to perish | @RayButterworth No, it was the one where Luke Skywalker distracts Kylo Ren on that salt planet while the resistance escapes through the back. I remember that the black main character and that Asian girl had this whole interplanetary mission while their ship was under attack, and race wasn’t an issue. I was just in the living room doing my own thing while my dad watched it. | |
| Dec 29, 2019 at 18:30 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | @gen-zreadytoperish, "Star Wars", as in "The Phantom Menace" and Jar Jar Binks? :-) | |
| Dec 29, 2019 at 18:00 | comment | added | gen-ℤ ready to perish | To answer your question: Star Wars | |
| Dec 29, 2019 at 13:18 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | "When was the last time you saw a movie with a black actor that didn't "talk funny", and without jokes or antagonism related to race?" Probably *Avengers: Endgame." | |
| Dec 29, 2019 at 12:09 | comment | added | The_Sympathizer | (as said, can't really remember but I know I've seen stuff that has given me the exact same thought before) | |
| Dec 29, 2019 at 12:07 | comment | added | The_Sympathizer | @user2647513 : I think I know because I've been in a similar boat. A lot of various online debate posts and advice posts around this issue sure seem to make it sound that way with things like "you have to know how racism works" (probably not the best example or best recollection but don't remember details offhand - could also have been something like that the characters are written "white" as being problematic or something like that) even in the context of fantasy writing which suggest it must then play a role in the world, otherwise why make such criticisms? | |
| Dec 29, 2019 at 6:59 | comment | added | ruakh | It seems like cheating to use Night of the Living Dead as your example; viewers of that movie continually see the character's race without its being mentioned, but the OP can hardly manage that in a novel! (An example of a novel that does this might be The Hunger Games -- but many readers didn't realize that Rue and Thresh were what we'd consider black until the movie came out, so that's also an example of how hard this can be to achieve.) | |
| Dec 29, 2019 at 0:14 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | I want to say this all the time! Talking about how X isn't an issue makes an issue out of X. Showing people where X could be an issue but simply isn't and is never mentioned is the best way! | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 21:26 | comment | added | user2647513 | I'm not sure why OP feels like he NEEDS to address the subject at all either. All art is arguably political to some degree, but artists have full control over how much of that politics is present in and relevant to their work. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 17:38 | history | edited | Ray Butterworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Minor word corrections.
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| Dec 28, 2019 at 15:40 | history | answered | Ray Butterworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |