I did frighten my friend. While she didn’t turn white, her undies did turn brown.

Um, not to pick nits here, but I’ve never seen any of my non-white friends turn white in any regard, be it from fear or otherwise. Not sure it’s biologically possible at all. Although I will test this assumption later today when I catch a co-worker coming out of the toilet. Should be fun!

It’s partly a British thing in that we’re blunt so it used to be saying White people looked brown rather than comparisons to food items (the UK is still only around 3% black today (We have had more Asian immigration due to the former Empire than Black immigration) after mass immigration in the last few decades and in…

I never once argued that people can’t have their own versions of the character. I argued that Rowling’s vision of the character, through the phrases she used in description of her and the drawings she drew and commissioned over the years, is of a White Hermione and that the recent turn of Rowling coming out that she…

There’s a difference between admitting and correcting errors and just removing references to it. Removing references to the past doesn’t absolve or fix it, it just makes a nice get out as showing how ‘tolerant’ you are (removing a statue of Rhodes will in no way change or fix Oxford’s long standing issues when it…

If you don’t see the difference between changing the race of a fictional character in a story not about racial matters (not real life racial matters, anyway) and casting Martin Luther King as a white guy (for half the play anyway), then I can’t help you. MLK falls clearly in the category of characters that absolutely…