the-rice-cat:

leafeon-the-littlephobe:

op, a reasonable, good egg: “it’s okay to make characters’ skin darker. it doesn’t erase their culture or heritage. dark skinned people of all cultures and heritages exist. darkening a character’s skin does not suddenly make them from a black heritage and culture.”

some fuck who doesn’t understand how melanin works: “this post can’t stop me because i can’t read. op is racist. making japanese people black (aka making their skin darker because god knows those are the same thing apparently) is racist and erases their japanese heritage and culture. black skinned asian people don’t exist that’s ridiculous. i am Very smart.”

im not disagreeing but japan is (pretty much) 99% japanese, so it’d be very rare to see a black skinned japanese person! I’d definitely like to see art of that so I don’t get why people think its ridiculous 

OP we ALL know the real reason why people change the skin colour of Japanese and all Asian characters in general (because is2g the same thing happens to Symmetra and Connie). It’s because Tumblr thinks Asians aren’t “real poc”, so they are racebent to look more African to be “more progressive.” 

If it’s wrong and racist to whitewash characters, blackwashing should be given the same treatment.