We black people ARE the victim I'm so tired of you cunts talking down on us AND OUR CLEAR EXPLANATION of why it's bad. Idgaf if you don't think its bad you're NOT BLACK you're not the one being victimized
bruh, nobody told her to cancel anything; she decided to do that of her own accord. also, those rape stories can fuck off as well... matter of fact, let's obliberate jinx while we are it
Nobody is saying these topics can't be portrayed. The problem is how they're portrayed.
The mc is introduced as "one of the good ones" white savior, while the ML is a habibi el slut but native instead. That's the issue people are criticizing, not the fact that the story includes slavery.
Amongst other things already discussed over and over again in here
Curious about why ML calls himself a slave? Illinois was a free state, so was that supposed to be a joke?
Also ML is less of a white savior than he is a boss handing out (unexpected) severance to his employees.. He isn't trying to fix anyone's problems or 'civilize' them. Also, maybe ML is non-white, but that does that mean showing interracial relationships in historical settings is always improper? They didn't even exchange more than a greeting, too early to peg him as anything. It wasn't like the author was writing a confederate soldier getting it on with a non-white person.
It's a shame the twitter crowd is so reflexively averse to even entertain a story set in this time period. There was nothing in there to warrant a cancellation afaik.
« I failed to fully recognize that I was replicating problematic historical contexts and representational tropes found in past works. » this just proves how the story was going to be worst than that first chapter so the best decision was indeed to cancel it.
Nobody is saying interracial relationships in historical settings are inherently wrong. That's not the criticism.
The issue is that the very first chapter frames a wealthy white protagonist as the benevolent liberator of enslaved people who immediately praise him for buying their freedom. That's a pretty textbook white savior setup.
The ml's design doesn't help either. He feels less like an actual native character and more like "native" used as an aesthetic, blue eyes, tan skin, short hair, pearls, but no real tribal identity or cultural specificity. The aesthetic being slave x master porn and race fetish.
And yeah, it was only one chapter. But first impressions DO matter, especially when Jaxx later admitted they hadn't done research on the topic.
Also, this wasn't some grand cancellation. People criticized the story, Jaxx acknowledged the criticism, apologized, and chose to stop the project.
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its about how its being portrayed and quite frankly i find it odd how only the white side characters have faces and not the slaves? also genuinely who enjoys those rape stories only uneducated and brain fogged people like it
what are you even saying? heck, i think you're even arguing against a position that most people weren't actually taking, and that's saying a lot.
nobody is implying that no story set during the civil war should exist, or that any interracial relationship in that period is automatically inappropriate. i would have agreed with you that there wasn't enough material to call the protagonist a 'white saviour', but to do that, you have to set aside how Jaxx: 1- implied the existence of blue blooded people when, historically, america did not have a legal aristocracy or nobility after gaining independence, 2- the depiction of black people in her storytelling and the dialogue given to them throughout the lenses of a racist land agent and the mc himself, who spoke for THEm. readers are allowed to be sceptical if the setup immediately raises red flags
and the cherry on top of your comment is this nonsense..... if you're saying that the mixed-race character "couldn't be a slave", consider that in the 19th century, there were indigenous people and people of indigenous descent who were subjected to servitude, kidnapping or slavery in various regions of north america, even in free states like illinois. what. are. you. even. saying?
you sound obtuse.
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omg I noticed this too, like the racist ranch seller or whatever he was got a face but not the black and brown people? Interesting...
Y'all are seriously acting like victims. It's ridiculous how sensitive some of you are being over something that was an actual part of history. Just because a manhwa includes slaves doesn't mean it's glorifying slavery; it was a real thing that happened.
The artist probably wanted to add some historical realism to the story. I don't see people trying to cancel every movie or show that includes slavery or racism. Showing something in fiction doesn't automatically mean the author supports it.
Yes, slavery was wrong, but acting like a fictional story can't portray it is just an overreaction. What's even crazier is that some of y'all have no problem reading stories where the ML literally assaults or rapes people, but suddenly draw the line at fictional slaves. That double standard is honestly embarrassing.