You’re the one without perspective. Perhaps you should revisit this conversation after your people are invaded, oppressed, used for fantasy fodder, and an insensitive descendant of the oppressors tells you how you’re allowed to feel about it.

That wasn’t the dilemma my example was intended to highlight. Yes, an author could write such a story if they so chose. That is their prerogative. Here’s the important part: it shouldn’t come as a surprise that people could get offended about such a warped version of history, particularly when they are a part of the…

Yeah, it’s a good thing they took a vote from all Native persons, and said vote had 100% participation. We can all relax. Thanks for putting it in perspective.

...and you represent all Christians everywhere, right?

Is that what scares you? Could it be the fact that more and more people are able to criticize that which offends them via social media and people like you are confronted with a reality you never knew or cared about previously?

They’re obvious *now*. In the 60s, The Yellow Claw was perfectly fine as a villain in kung fu comic books. What do you think would happen if they made a movie like that now and tried to market it in China? How would Americans of Chinese descent feel?

Delicious.

The same could be said about Rowling and all the people in these comment threads who don’t believe that certain cultures should or need to be treated with a certain amount of respect.

Ok, cool. I’m going to go write a story about how the all-powerful and benevolent whites brought culture and scientific advancement to the underdeveloped stupid blacks of Dark Africa. It’s fiction! Nobody should be offended! Right?!

Jackass.

Maybe if Germany and France were invaded and taken over by an alien culture, and most Germans and French who aren’t wiped out and don’t convert to alien religions and customs are sent to small cordoned-off pieces of land out of sight and mind from the rest of the area, you’d whine a bit more.

You probably don’t come from a culture that has experienced the same things as Native Americans, and obviously haven’t done the necessary research to understand them. Of course you don’t get it.

Have you ever complained about a movie? Are you a filmmaker? Get real, man.

Obviously, at least some people care. How do you explain this comment thread otherwise?