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Raceplay explicitly leans into like old racist adages of black men and white women. It's frankly kinda dehumanizing, and I don't think there is anything wrong with judging people for it.
 
I don't have anything against the desires. There's certainly an appeal to big. If big is inherently connected to black for someone then that's something they should give some thought about.

Of course, if it goes as far as someone being a chaser then that's bad.
 
Chlof said:
if someone gets off on that particular line of stereotyping I think it's pretty reasonable to say that that person has some issues regarding their prejudices regarding black men
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I don't think it's reasonable to say that someone has issues based on their kinks. At all. Frankly, I find it kinda disturbing when people try to broadly lump together sexual fantasies and real world beliefs. Brains are weird, kinks come from all kinds of connections and sometimes seemingly out of nowhere, judging someone by what tickles them and not by what they actually say about or do to real people is wrong.

(To pretend this is still on topic: fiction about deeply fucked up things is Okay, Actually. Yes, even when it does not subvert them. As long as it's properly tagged, of course.)
 
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Fourthmatchflame said:
I mean like your allowed to want weird and kinda fucked up things but you do still have to not consume it uncritically.
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So what's the end goal here?

There seems to be this idea in discussions about this subject that if people who are into raceplay think hard enough about how bad and racist it is (or sometimes how bad and $adjective some other fetish is), then the people who are into it will stop liking it. And... yeah, that's basically a non-starter. The best it seems like you can hope for is that they 'leave it in the bedroom' as it were. Which... well, I'm not convinced they're worse off than the populace at large here. (And it does seem to be a thing on some people's minds, because I've seen threads on reddit discussing the ethical dilemmas around this and other kinks.)

-Morgan.
 
Morganite said:
So what's the end goal here?

There seems to be this idea in discussions about this subject that if people who are into raceplay think hard enough about how bad and racist it is (or sometimes how bad and $adjective some other fetish is), then the people who are into it will stop liking it.
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I don't expect them to stop liking it I just don't want them to be fourchan freaks about it.
 
If anything things can get more problematic when they actually start thinking about [insert problematic media] and start trying to justify it. Not thinking about it can sometimes be for the best.
 
I think that people should remember that sometimes things are popular because their good
 
More fiction should be made by perennial shitposters who regard the audience as the butt of their joke.
 
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I think Evangelion gag manga are more entertaining than the actual series. The characters in Eva are much more shallow and non complex than people make them out to be, which makes them incredibly good to bounce broad humor off of.

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Spartakrod said:
More fiction should be made by perennial shitposters who regard the audience as the butt of their joke.
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I did that shit for years on EssBee and nobody liked it :V
 
A lot of the time you hear that Star Trek has always been political, and that's true. However, even beyond the episodes with the rascist aliens whose only difference is what side of their face is white and what side is black it's almost shocking how much of a moral focus there is to the original series.

It's a rough sort of honesty at times, but even in the face of aliens that are stronger than them, computers that are smarter or flat out godlike beings the Enterprise crew always stick to their beliefs. It's political because there's just some topics that it refuses to not take a stand on.
 
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