[quote=@TokyoPewPew]
Woof. Thank goodness you're just playing devil's advocate, else the insinuation that race is merely an "aesthetic" and [i]not[/i] "how characters are written" would have been insidious as fuck 🙏
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Except that would have been a complete misunderstanding of what I stated and, better yet,a little condescending tbh.   No where do I say that race is just an aesthetic . I also find it a little ironic tbh considering in your original post you're the one that seems to treat race as an aesthetic with the whole "Aladdinland" bs, which literally reduces being Middle Eastern to an aesthetic fyi. So the moral grandstanding is a bit too rich here.