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When creating a story with minority protagonists, is it better not to create white male characters? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Hickak@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I may not be 100% wrong, but I noticed a pattern. Whenever a story is led by minorities and white male characters are secondary, most of the time right-wing ideological white men start complaining and attacking the story. So if someone is starting to create a story, is it better to focus on a certain audience and not create white male characters? Or is that an exaggeration?

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[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago

Right wing ideological white men are the original Karen's, they can't help but complain about everything, especially if those things have literally no bearing on their existence whatsoever.

They're all like "Those people over there are having fun without bothering anyone else, how dare they! I'm going to complain to their manager. And then when their manager calls me a chucklefuck and tells me to fuck off I'm going to complain to a bunch of other right wing arseholes and see if we can't ruin their fun forever with super fun bureaucracy."

If you don't include them they will be mad, if you do include them they will also be mad.