Fandom as a whole can always do with more people willing to listen and learn and then to speak out in situations like this - whether it's to directly address the people denigrating the experience and knowledge of non-whites, or just to bring it to the attention of people who might believe there's nothing wrong with the world as it is, and if coloured people have a problem with it, then the problem must be the coloured people.
I don't honestly believe that the answer is closed spaces.
I believe the answer is a collection of people - of all races - who are open-minded, willing to learn from their mistakes, willing to admit that the world goes beyond their experience, willing to object when the person on their friends' list says, "Oh, but there's nothing actually wrong with the depiction of non-whites in television," and not just when someone puts on a white hood and posts burning crosses in backyards.
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Fandom as a whole can always do with more people willing to listen and learn and then to speak out in situations like this - whether it's to directly address the people denigrating the experience and knowledge of non-whites, or just to bring it to the attention of people who might believe there's nothing wrong with the world as it is, and if coloured people have a problem with it, then the problem must be the coloured people.
I don't honestly believe that the answer is closed spaces.
I believe the answer is a collection of people - of all races - who are open-minded, willing to learn from their mistakes, willing to admit that the world goes beyond their experience, willing to object when the person on their friends' list says, "Oh, but there's nothing actually wrong with the depiction of non-whites in television," and not just when someone puts on a white hood and posts burning crosses in backyards.