No I'm a WoC who is sick an tired of people insisting how many more PoC character players there would be around if this ONE thing suddenly changed. Most players are white girls who don't care enough about PoC characters to even have thought about playing them beyond a fleeting consideration. Because they assume it's too hard and too tough to play a PoC. When all they have to do is treat them like a damn person and play them based on how they are in their canon.
I'm tired of people acting like it's the secret wankers keeping players away from PoC characters when that's total bullshit. How many people who have played a PoC character have actually been wanked on? How many of those weren't being offensive or playing their character OOC?
The fact they keep insisting PoC characters are these evasive special unicorn characters they "can't do justice," "can't relate to," or "will get wanked on for screwing up," is just a passive kind of racism that continues to make PoCs the Unknowable Other while shifting responsibility for their refusal to even try on some hypothetical horde of sjws out to get them that I've yet to see.
I would welcome people playing more PoC. I would even give people some leeway just for trying as long as they're willing to improve. But if you give the average rper a choice, they will pick a white character over a PoC majority of the time. So stop acting like they're so worried about wank when the truth is they keep Othering us by projecting their own assumptions of how we'll react to them playing a PoC onto us.
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I'm tired of people acting like it's the secret wankers keeping players away from PoC characters when that's total bullshit. How many people who have played a PoC character have actually been wanked on? How many of those weren't being offensive or playing their character OOC?
The fact they keep insisting PoC characters are these evasive special unicorn characters they "can't do justice," "can't relate to," or "will get wanked on for screwing up," is just a passive kind of racism that continues to make PoCs the Unknowable Other while shifting responsibility for their refusal to even try on some hypothetical horde of sjws out to get them that I've yet to see.
I would welcome people playing more PoC. I would even give people some leeway just for trying as long as they're willing to improve. But if you give the average rper a choice, they will pick a white character over a PoC majority of the time. So stop acting like they're so worried about wank when the truth is they keep Othering us by projecting their own assumptions of how we'll react to them playing a PoC onto us.