Alright monster high tag I’m going to explain you about racial coding because some of you still can’t understand how a cartoon character can be a monster and have a “human race” to go along with it.
So first off we do not live in a bubble. Nothing created exists in a bubble. It is all influenced by the surrounding culture. Black children are going to look at Honey and say “hey, she has hair like mine” and relate to that. Mexican children will look at Skelita and recognize the sugar skull and be drawn to her. Things do not exists in a bubble.
Now for racial coding. Racial coding is when you take a non-human character and code them as a specific type of race, or ethnicity. Now, sometimes racial coding can be racist. Examples:
All these characters are very obviously supposed to represent a certain race even thought they re non-human. The problem is they are represented racistly.
Now on for some good examples!
Luigi is a car, we all know he is Italian.
Flow is a car, we can still tell she’s black.
Eduardo is a imaginary friend, we still know he’s latin@
Wilt is an imaginary friend, we can still tell he’s black
Jinafire is a dragon, we all know she’s Chinese
Marisol is a Maricoxi, she is still obviously South American & Latin@ (tbh she reads as Peruvian specifically to me)
Hello Kitty is a cat, because she is created in Japan and is often displayed as participating in Japanese culture we know she’s Japanese.
So even though Honey Swamp is a monster.
And if you can’t see that you are a racist.
Black folk get shit for their natural hair all the time. When you, as any race other than black, straighten Honey’s hair you are part of the problem and are racist.
I hope everyone learned a thing :)
P.S. I will not be responding to racist trying to defend themselves.
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