Here's the thing: Everything you've been asking seems to be masking an underlying assumption that there's nothing wrong with white actors and characters being the overwhelming majority of story focus in the various media that we have at our disposal. And that applies to issues of writing all-white stories from the ground up; of making white characters the focal point (and all too often the savior) in stories that are ostensibly about non-white people; of tiering "diversity" so that even when nonwhite characters are present, they are not the stars of the show; of taking stories that are from or about non-white characters and putting white characters in them.
You may not be aware that this assumption is lodged in your consciousness, but it is. And you're not going to get anywhere until you face it down. Every time you ask one of these questions, you, knowingly or not, try to assert that assumption onto the discussion.
And the assumption is extremely privileged, and letting it go unchecked leads inevitably to the spread of racism.
The links that I forwarded to you (including the many comment threads on the link to my own journal) are just the tip of the iceberg of writing and thinking on why that assumption is horribly, dangerously wrong. There's no need to recreate the arguments to fit your specific questions.
I'm not interested in looking at these stories individually, because they don't only cause damage individually, they cause damage in conjunction with the other plethora of similar stories, both fictional and actual, and with the power differences that are present in the world that we live in.
So forget the coy questions and address that assumption. And if you come to the conclusion that, yeah, you think there's nothing wrong with it, then I really don't have anything to say to you. If you agree that there is, or are even willing to fully entertain the idea that there is something wrong and to reassess your attitude from that perspective, then you should be able to answer most of your own questions pretty easily.
Either way, it's probably some time to do some work on your own.
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You may not be aware that this assumption is lodged in your consciousness, but it is. And you're not going to get anywhere until you face it down. Every time you ask one of these questions, you, knowingly or not, try to assert that assumption onto the discussion.
And the assumption is extremely privileged, and letting it go unchecked leads inevitably to the spread of racism.
The links that I forwarded to you (including the many comment threads on the link to my own journal) are just the tip of the iceberg of writing and thinking on why that assumption is horribly, dangerously wrong. There's no need to recreate the arguments to fit your specific questions.
I'm not interested in looking at these stories individually, because they don't only cause damage individually, they cause damage in conjunction with the other plethora of similar stories, both fictional and actual, and with the power differences that are present in the world that we live in.
So forget the coy questions and address that assumption. And if you come to the conclusion that, yeah, you think there's nothing wrong with it, then I really don't have anything to say to you. If you agree that there is, or are even willing to fully entertain the idea that there is something wrong and to reassess your attitude from that perspective, then you should be able to answer most of your own questions pretty easily.
Either way, it's probably some time to do some work on your own.