it is immensely frustrating that people keep saying varkaris is racist because, like, fundamentally he's the marginalized party. it's bullshit, the story is clear he's allowed to feel hatred because he does not benefit from any kind of institutional power and in fact is still victimized by the lingering effects of colonialism. calling his actions and speech racist from an in-universe perspective is claiming reverse racism is real. but AK choosing to do this with sargon and minos means we have a greek-coded man (i know greeks are in a similar area to many europeans where their whiteness depends on the era and area but they are SOMETIMES considered white because the point of whiteness is often to turn different marginalized identities against each other; see irish people being reframed as white in the US in order to make class action between irish immigrants and black americans harder) talking about how much he hates and is justified for hating people from the area coded as the middle east, africa, and mesoamerica. and the story agrees with him. calling his actions and speech racist from an out-of-universe perspective is pointing out that the writers made a dumbass decision to write a european man whose hatred of arabs, mexicans, and black people is justified.
like... fuck, HG, you really shot yourself in the foot here. what a mess.
