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honorh ([info]honorh) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2012-03-08 21:50:00


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NEWS FLASH: In the future, we may not all be white!
The cast for the movie of The Hunger Games has been known for a while, but a certain segment of the fandom is having a hard time coming to terms with something about it: Namely, that Rue and Thresh, both described in the book as dark-skinned, will be played by African-American actors. Worse, so will Cinna, whose ethnicity isn't mentioned, and therefore must be white.

Hunger Games Tweets has been keeping its eye on some of the worse elements. Warning: Some extremely vile, racist language. Did you know that sweet, innocent girls must always be pale and fair-haired? And gay men can't be black? I'm telling you, it's an education.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go vomit.


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[info]lied_ohne_worte
2012-03-10 09:26 am UTC (link)
I kind of admire people who can read about a character having "dark brown skin" and conclude from this that she must of course be a tanned white girl. What description would the author have needed to use in order to convince them she was in fact black?

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[info]ekaterinv
2012-03-10 10:03 am UTC (link)
Probably an H.P. Lovecraft kind of description would have done it. Making the fact that she's black the central horror of the work. After all, how else could anyone possibly write about a black person?

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[info]sepiamagpie
2012-03-10 10:06 am UTC (link)
Re: Lovecraft. I remember the exact moment when I realized that the foreshadowing of great evil was that the sailor had been black.

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[info]full_metal_ox
2012-03-10 08:59 pm UTC (link)
The punch line and crowning horror of "Medusa's Coil"--the story to which I think Ekaterinv is alluding--is better yet:

No wonder she owned a link with that old witch-woman Sophonisba—for, though in deceitfully slight proportion, Marceline was a negress.

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[info]sepiamagpie
2012-03-10 11:03 pm UTC (link)
Ohh right. I haven't read that one yet and so it isn't seared in my mind in the litany of 'God why'

I'm not sure I ever will read it.

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[info]ekaterinv
2012-03-10 11:28 pm UTC (link)
Yep, that's the one I was thinking of. All this terrible stuff happens -- but the one thing that the "hero" isn't going to reveal, for it would be too soul-shatteringly horrific, is that Marceline had black ancestry.

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[info]hafl
2012-03-10 11:03 am UTC (link)
A skin as dark as her soul? Fits in with the "She's supposed to be innocent, so she can't be black" thing.

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[info]rosehiptea
2012-03-10 04:01 pm UTC (link)
Part of the problem is that they don't use the terms "black" or, of course, "African-American" in Panem.

Well, no, the actual problem is that people are stupid and racist. And probably would be sitting here saying "black" doesn't mean the same thing in the future or some shit, for all I know.

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[info]jat_sapphire
2012-03-10 04:09 pm UTC (link)
What description would the author have needed to use in order to convince them she was in fact black?

1. ebony
2. flashing white teeth
3. ebony
4. dreadlocks
5. ebony

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[info]ladyvyola
2012-03-10 10:39 pm UTC (link)
6. jet
7. ebony
8. whites of her rolling eyes
9. ebony
10. chocolate
11. ebony

Ow, my brain wants to punish me.

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[info]jat_sapphire
2012-03-11 09:15 pm UTC (link)
I'd blame fanfic but one reads those words everywhere.

Well, OK, I still blame fanfic.

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[info]simplefaith
2012-03-22 07:36 am UTC (link)
She would have had to snap her fingers and refer to Katniss as "girlfriend"*

*Fun fact: many racists are stuck in the 90s

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