Kerotan said:
If black people want to complain about a black character because he's boring or whatever then by all means do. But don't complain about him because he's black or because of his sex, or sexuality. These things should be irrelevant when judging people. |
Race is part of a character and there are certain basic archetypes based around attributes such as sexuality or race. A generic gay man character isn't the same as a generic black man character. As such, it is not a complaint that a character is black if you are complaining about a generic black character. It is a complaint about the character's adherence to certain archetypal characteristics.
Similarly, if you are to complain about a common archetype featuring white males, it is not a criticism of the race of the character, it is a criticism of how tired the archetype is. Nobody is saying "white character bad", they are saying "I've seen this character 100 times before and it has become boring". This outrage is thoroughly misplaced.
But this has already been explaining twenty times already...
