It’s whitewashing if they’re taking an opportunity for a high-profile role from a person of color (turning a role that either canonically—either in actual history or as indicated in fiction—was PoC into a white person). I’d argue you can’t whitewash cosplay since they’re not being used in actual roles.

A lot of people did think that. In fact, in 1891, the US Government passed a law that *required* children to be placed in these schools, and allowed Federal Officers to forcibly remove children from their homes to be placed in those schools. To the Government, and the American people, they were *rescuing* those…

As if cosplay was entirely divorced from media and culture? Give me a break. These are characters from media, characters that come from a narrative and have their own narrative, that are a part of popular culture.

Except the only people saying that are people who are trying to be contrarions like yourself. "can't do this cuz now it's this". Piss off. 

No she wouldn’t of. Cosplaying as a character of another race and being white has never been a crime. and there are no major schools of thought, coming from PoC saying that white people can’t be a white whatever. The line in cosplay starts and stops at “don’t use race as a costume” and that’s it.

Racial/cultural…

“What was she supposed to do, make the character white? Then wouldn’t there be people shitting on her for black erasure”

There is literally no school of thought that shames white people for cosplaying characters as white. The generally agreed upon “rule” is cosplay whatever you want, just don’t do any raceface.

So at…

“I understand where the history is coming from but this is just the kind of things that will separate people more than unite.”

Ah yes, the ole “the more we talk about racism the more racist people get” bullshit. 

If the intent matters than the fact that Livanart heard criticisms from ‘some black people’ and did it anyway matters more.

Look, I don’t know her, her work, or her views. I’m not going to try and cast any aspersions on any of that. What I can say is that her use of race as a costume is problematic regardless of how she saw it because (A) At this point it’s well understood and respected to cosplay without trying to emulate the skin color…

She’s still using race as a costume. There are plenty of ways she could’ve done Pyke that didn’t involve race facing.

Already knew this was going to be here:

The core problem is this: It doesn’t matter how detailed, how much care she took, or anything else: Livanart is still treating race as a costume. Race is not an accessory or costume that can simply be taken off at the end of the day.

Maybe their point is that this is another low-effort article.

Did you even look at the pictures from the bank cameras? Because, if that guy is wearing makeup, he didn’t just “slather it on.”

It’s a little late to claim he used makeup after you already came out and said you ‘shopped his picture.

It’s completely egregious. They have doctored evidence to improve their case.

Correct, I am assuming that a set-piece scenario out of an Agatha Christie novel (or was it Ellery Queen? Nero Wolfe? I forget) is orders of magnitude less likely than another example of the kind of shoddy “police” “work” that we have seen repeated dozens of times, even in the tiny percentage of cases where the cops…

Possibly they just want their conviction rate high because it makes someone up the chain who is elected look good. They care more about just throwing someone, anyone (who is black) in jail than they do about a robber going free or preventing any other.

“Why are the police and DA’s office helping a bank robber get away by framing someone? Why don’t they want to catch the person actually committing the crimes?”

They ain’t even the same color. lol