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yk what i have thoughts about this. to me the whole convo re: "racebending" or, in more uncharitable terms, "blackwashing", reveals a lot about how people consider race to be functionally immutable. like people respond to edits/art of idk black hatsune miku as though something is being taken away by making her black, like it's somehow racist to portray her that way, as though it's simply not possible to be black and japanese. and people draw one to one comparisons with 'whitewashing' all the time, and ignoring the fact that whitewashing has an established history of harm that the inverse 'blackwashing' simply does not possess, the fact of the matter is that even in the abstract people don't think of these concepts the same way.