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The biggest part of the problem, from my perspective, is people getting upset at seeing their people represented as crimies. But, y'know, it's a crime story. It's a violent not-good-folks story from what I've seen, so... and the issue of research and familiarity, which is what turned me off, so there I can agree more.
But, personally, I'd take just as much a stretch writing, oh, straight middle-class white protestants from Boston, if I did so, hence I cannot comfortably be too harsh on people fictionalizing and making shit up in fiction.
So, yeah, my response has kinda been "Why aren't you doing a call-back or response fiction, then?" more than anything, but I'd like to defuse a few people before it gets silly. Especially since they'll go run an article somewhere over the offense, but nobody but me's praising Warren Ellis loudly for being like the one White Comics Guy who does great reasonably-portrayed - and frequently badass - Native characters (American Eagle, Dani Moonstar, Forge, et al).
I suck at the racial politricks and I love comics almost blindly sometimes. It's a hard road.
On the bright side, I have a new can of coffee, a box of Moon Pies, and I've begun rereading L.M. Montgomery stuff I haven't touched since I was tiny tiny. Emily Climbs and all that. |
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