I’m Polish and I disagree.

No.

The Witcher was never meant to be a nationalist fantasy. Sapkowski himself hates nationalism. I’m Polish and I want the show to be diverse, so maybe don’t speak on my behalf too? Also not everyone in Poland is white either.

You and the other guy dogwhistling with Black Panther have very clearly not read the article.

The concern is over the composition of the writing team (specifically, that a few members are female, and some are persons of color), not the casting of the show itself.

It’s instructive to note that the lead writer said she’d…

Yeah, the books are pretty damn progressive. Abortion is 100% the woman’s choice, racists are bad, women are full characters with their own agendas (and face no shame from the writer for sleeping around just as much as Geralt), people can’t be judged by whether they’re a vampire or an elf or etc, economic oppression,…

No they didn’t. Liberals fought intrinsically anti gay, anti women’s equality, etc aspects of our society which inherently means that conservatives did it first because they’ve been the ones holding back equality.

The ironic part is that while the cast of the Witcher games and books generally are white, the message of Geralt and his adventures leans a lot more towards what these idiots would call “SJW” territory. The Elves and Dwarves of the Witcher universe are fill ins for just about any minority, and they’re usually unfairly…

They really shouldn’t, but they do. Skin color and sex come with a packaged set of experiences, almost universally. (That “almost” leaves wiggle room for statistical anomalies that somehow managed to avoid ever experiencing discrimination in their lives straight to the top of the music charts and... oh wait I was…

It’s a picture of the writers room, you dumb fuck, not the goddamn show.

Remember how there are white people in Black Panther? Like...how they exist?

What in the world makes you think this staff will inject “SJW nonsense” into the Witcher or make Geralt black? Is it honestly just that you can’t imagine how women and people of color could be hired to write a TV show except as part of some nefarious SJW plot?

Stop. Talking about things that affect POC’s lives like the fact that we are inherently different and treated as such is in no way equal to the bigotry of white nationalists.

“It’s a series the Polish are proud of and yet liberals want to “diversify” it.”

I’m from Poland, have been reading Witcher books since I was 13. And I hate those racist assholes with a passion.
I would love Lin Manuel Miranda as Dandillion, and Lauren agrees with me!

Yeah I find it sad and hilarious that people are being racist against the writing room for a series where one of the main narrative themes is precisely racism (and not precisely from a racist point of view.)

It’s like all these idiots missed the point when reading the books/playing the games.

This is going to sound really stupid but I’m being genuine here: Don’t let a toxic fandom prevent you from being a fan.

The worst part is the well is already poisoned by these racist incel nerds. Any episode, any plot, any character, any *SCENE* that is even perceived as being bad or not great will be pointed to as the fault of the diverse writers or a woman or a person of colour. “See!? They ruined it. We were right!”

This. Nationalists ruin everything. They complain about liberals using identity politics but their entire life revolves around identity politics and pushing their fucking regressive views onto everything and hitching when things aren’t overly white.

The Witchers themselves are discriminated against

1) Twitter is often a terrible place online.
2) She seems to try to make it a better one.