#lizardsfromspace

> Fellas, I'm starting to think these people just want to keep marginalized people from playing anyone

Except plenty of the people you’re talking about have full-throatedly said creators should just make new characters instead of racebending. 

Or adapting characters that are already minorities.

Many of them say that racebending white characters to ethnic minority characters is racist. That it implies or assumes those characters have to piggyback instead of standing on their own two feet.

They also regularly claim that the race-bending only seems to go from white to non-white, and never the reverse, so it seems a tad dishonest to look around and pretend those aren’t responses to deliberate actions by progressives.

Sometimes explicitly.

Also, remind me which side popularized the idea of “cancelling” actors out of personal dislike for traits entirely unrelated to their actual role?

The fact that we have no real evidence of trans people existing in Zelda? 

You (personal/general) can’t want special treatment for being trans, and then treat it as the unquestioned default.

...Oh fuck, so it has, apparently.

a deflection tactic, is my best guess?  like, as long as they can get you to engage with their points instead of their premise (which is dumb and should be pissed on whenever possible), they can prove there are SOME holes in your argument and that YOU’RE at least somewhat unreasonable (which is probably why I, a dumbass, was targeted huehue), and then there’s doubt that inclusionism is indeed the right answer