seems like some of you dont know why whitewashing dark-skinned characters isn't okay

this applies to all dark-skinned characters, whether they are black or southeast asian etc. i will try to explain it so its easy to understand

why is it okay to redraw/edit white characters/lighter-skinned characters as black or having darker skin?

there is already tons and i mean tons of pale characters in media. there is a lot of white characters/people with lighter skin. there are rarely dark-skinned characters or black characters with proper representation. so when people edit those characters as black/having darker skin, they are not taking anything away as there are many more characters like that.

why is it not okay to do it the other way around?

well like i said there isnt many black/tan/dark-skinned characters. dark-skinned poc constantly struggle to get representation in any type of media. so when you whitewash the rare black/dark-skinned characters that we do get, you are taking the representation away from us. i could name plenty of pale/white characters right now, but i could only name a few dark-skinned/black ones.

tl;dr: there is enough pale/white representation in media, there is no need to take away the rare black/dark-skinned characters we barely get.

hope this was easy to understand and makes sense :p