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

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As long as you're not disproportionately representing one ethnicity as being worse than others ignore em and write what fits the story

Imo the only issue is when they are written poorly and/or used as comic relief, in the same way that it kinda sucks when writers use gay guys as comic relief