Most dystopian fiction has to be whitewashed to appeal to white people for it to sell. That’s why Katniss Everdeen isnt Black in the movies. And why racism isnt focused on in the movies like it is in the books. Same for Handmaids Tale.
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Feeling this! My biggest fandom growing up Harry Potter. Them recasting Lavender Brown mid-series from a Black actress to a white one when she was about to become a more important character and be romantically involved with Ron… That sucks.
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*not at all excluding my own snowflake self