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FaithDmazing July 21, 2021 11:38 pm

As an indigenous person, this shit is fucking disgusting. It's fetishizing indigenous people and playing into the "indigenous people are savage" shit. It pisses me off. It also sucks that this is on here as well. Plus, it's very rapey.

    Kyokou July 22, 2021 12:31 am

    Relax, there are many kinds of indigenous people I don't think it portraits you. Plus its just a fictional story, just because the author made the story this way doesn't really mean this is the ways of indigenous people

    FaithDmazing July 22, 2021 3:39 am
    Relax, there are many kinds of indigenous people I don't think it portraits you. Plus its just a fictional story, just because the author made the story this way doesn't really mean this is the ways of indigeno... Kyokou

    The thing is, how you portray someone in fiction effects reality. If a writer wrote a pedophilic relationship, you'd assume they're a pedophile. It works the same way with race. If they're gonna be racist in fiction, they're racist irl. Plus, the one guy that has dreads isn't even black. Don't tell me to relax either, it's a big deal. Fetishizing race or minorities in general is fucking disgusting. Don't defend a racist writer that thinks rapey vibes in a relationship is attractive.

    koreanos July 22, 2021 3:58 am

    The moment you said "as an indigenous person" I'm going to stop you there. You didn't have to read this #1. #2 An author wrote Killing Stalking does that make that author a killer or a stalker irl? This author from what I can gather is basing their story off of Tarzan, wanna go off on Tarzan? Dreadlocks are not a black owned thing, Asians and even Whites had dreadlocks. Have you heard of Vikings? If Shaka is whom you are complaining the most about let's just say, the author is also probably basing off of feral children, children who were raised around animals rather than human society. Once again, if it pisses you off real bad as a "indigenous person" then don't read it. Simple as that.

    FaithDmazing July 22, 2021 4:16 am
    The moment you said "as an indigenous person" I'm going to stop you there. You didn't have to read this #1. #2 An author wrote Killing Stalking does that make that author a killer or a stalker irl? This author ... koreanos

    Man racists really out here writing a whole ass paragraph trying to defend a story that depicts indigenous people as animals. Even if it's possibly based off of children raised by animals, it's still playing into the racist stereotype. I am not a fetish, I am allowed to be upset.

    ItsGonnaBeMe July 22, 2021 8:51 am
    Relax, there are many kinds of indigenous people I don't think it portraits you. Plus its just a fictional story, just because the author made the story this way doesn't really mean this is the ways of indigeno... Kyokou

    Are you really about to silence an indigenous persons voice? What they feel is perfectly valid and they have every right to feel what they feel :P and they’re right, this story does play into the wrong stereotypes. Yes it’s a fictional story, but there are a lot of fictional stories out there that can be considered problematic and can show a wrongful portrayal of POC. The example you used of “Killing Stalking”, isn’t even a valid example as a murderer can be literally anyone, doesn’t matter their race or cultural background. We are talking about indigenous tribes here were their culture is being portrayed in a weird fashion in this Webtoon (as well as many other Webtoons). The commenter just wants good representation that doesn’t fetishize their culture, that doesn’t really seem too much to ask for.

    ItsGonnaBeMe July 22, 2021 8:59 am
    The moment you said "as an indigenous person" I'm going to stop you there. You didn't have to read this #1. #2 An author wrote Killing Stalking does that make that author a killer or a stalker irl? This author ... koreanos

    Are you really about to silence an indigenous persons voice? What they feel is perfectly valid and they have every right to feel what they feel :P and they’re right, this story does play into the wrong stereotypes. Yes it’s a fictional story, but there are a lot of fictional stories out there that can be considered problematic and can show a wrongful portrayal of POC. The example you used of “Killing Stalking”, isn’t even a valid example as a murderer can be literally anyone, doesn’t matter their race or cultural background. We are talking about indigenous tribes here were their culture is being portrayed in a weird fashion in this Webtoon (as well as many other Webtoons). The commenter just wants good representation that doesn’t fetishize their culture, that doesn’t really seem too much to ask for

    ItsGonnaBeMe July 22, 2021 9:01 am
    Are you really about to silence an indigenous persons voice? What they feel is perfectly valid and they have every right to feel what they feel :P and they’re right, this story does play into the wrong stereo... ItsGonnaBeMe

    Whoops I didn’t mean that for you, that was meant for Koreanos, but hell even then. You can’t tell someone to “relax” about something they feel is wrong, especially when it relates back to their culture. Like I get where your coming from, but come on.. even if it’s a fictional story it can still push the wrong stereotypes of indigenous people.

    ItsGonnaBeMe July 22, 2021 9:05 am
    Relax, there are many kinds of indigenous people I don't think it portraits you. Plus its just a fictional story, just because the author made the story this way doesn't really mean this is the ways of indigeno... Kyokou

    Whoops that long paragraph wasn’t mean’t for you, that was meant for Koreanos, but hell even then. You can’t tell someone to “relax” about something they feel is wrong, especially when it relates back to their culture. Like I get where your coming from, but come on.. even if it’s a fictional story it can still push the wrong stereotypes of indigenous people.

    FaithDmazing July 22, 2021 6:57 pm
    Are you really about to silence an indigenous persons voice? What they feel is perfectly valid and they have every right to feel what they feel :P and they’re right, this story does play into the wrong stereo... ItsGonnaBeMe

    Thank you for this :)
    I'm glad that other people also care about stuff like this, have a nice day :)

    Oni July 24, 2021 10:51 am

    I respect what you said, but I don't think somebody thought about this. It is only a story, plus somebody with a brain will make a difference between the real and beautiful culture and fanfiction.

    FaithDmazing July 24, 2021 4:16 pm
    I respect what you said, but I don't think somebody thought about this. It is only a story, plus somebody with a brain will make a difference between the real and beautiful culture and fanfiction. Oni

    That's the whole problem though, that the writer didn't research things properly when they easily could have and instead just did stereotypes that are known to be offensive (even if they didn't realize it or whatever). As I stated before (which I wasn't expecting you to read as it wasn't towards you) fictional shit effects reality. If someone who doesn't know much about indigenous people read this, they might think that some of it is true (I'm sure most wouldn't but there would be a few). Plus, people fetishize asians a lot because of kdramas and manga and shit, and there's a good chance that those reading this put themselves in this situation and are too fetishizing indigenous men, even if they don't realize. It's incredibly upsetting, as we've been through a lot and are currently mourning over the thousands of unmarked graves of children and other issues depending on where you're from, so seeing this just pisses me off. We're not "xxl" we're literally like everyone else. We're not savages, we talk like everyone else, we do everything quite similar to everyone else. Making us seem like a cool uncivilized group of people is harmful, because we've had to deal with racism because of people saying we're more animal than people. We've also had the government force us into residential "schools" that abused kids, abandoned the health funding because they didn't give a shit and let hundreds of children die from illnesses, they wouldn't let them eat properly so they ate spoiled apples and whatever else they could find, if they were in the same place as their sibling they couldn't communicate, they were taught that their culture was wrong and were forced to be white. Then you got mormons that think that indigenous people are darker skinned than white people because they've sinned, and that they can somehow become white if they become a mormon. Writing a story that is inspired by indigenous people is okay when done correctly, and this story was most definitely not done correctly. Take breath of the wild's lurelin village for example (only thing I could think of rn) they're a group of people who rarely interact with other people unless they're trading things. They've made strong houses, they fish all the time, they go adventuring around the area because they're curious, they eat fruit that grows on the trees in front of their houses, they catch crabs and eat them too. They have proper houses and all interact like every person would, instead of the typical Tarzan can't communicate and smells you and shit. It's just a harmful stereotype is all, and those reading don't understand that as they wouldn't be reading it if they did. Thanks for being kind about it though.

FaithDmazing July 14, 2021 5:50 am

This is so good omg?? I love how it's not focused on romance and is actually more about the story, I rarely see those on here.

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