somehow racist.
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The_Real_Celsus — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 01:14 PM)
You may want to roll some of that back. I know some very racist attitudes exist in asia over darkness. I know personally from a woman I dated once and many friends from China. But your example is innocent viewing of the tooth paste name is actually pretty bad. Many areas like China, Thailand, and such value light skin because darker skin implies manual labor and dirty. There are many ads that play on the color of darker skin being dirty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Few8kJ0zfnY (this is a remake of a Italian ad that is the inverse of it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fTP14N_Oik (balloon ad is funny when he gets home, but changing him in to the tooth paste is almost like saying in this case dark is ok, so it lost points for me there).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4okNUKMHy1s
Couldn't quickly find the others I have seen, but there is one where they bring a shaman in to cure a woman of black face because it is a "curse"
As for the character I am not sure about the name, if it was a racist term, then it was in bad form, but this show seems to gloss over our history quite often with how both race, sex, and sexuality was treated back in the day. There were always great people that were not small minded in thought and action, but even with that those people often got in trouble for their actions i.e. Mississippi Burning.
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BrunoAntony — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 03:39 AM)
In 1942, "midnight" was a racial slur towards African Americans, referring to their dark skin.
A black superhero calling himself "Dr Midnite" during this time period is as likely as a black superhero calling himself "Dr N-Word" or another race-based insult.
In the comics, there was a black Dr Midnite in the 1980s when the slur was less common and arguably a lot less powerful.
It's really, REALLY stupid writing and demonstrates that a show about time travel is being written by people who have no idea about actual history. -
shadowrun_2 — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 08:41 AM)
He was just there to appease social justice warriors anyway. Dr. Mid-Nite is white in the comics.
Nope. No more than Black Vulcan.
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JRichardSingleton — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 03:22 PM)
Not as bad as the original Black Ranger. Oops!
www.jrichardsingleton.blogspot.com