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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Frankly, I think it's more racist to assume a person that deals in martial arts has to be Asian.

Good thing no one's doing that then.

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Originally Posted by LockonStratos

Let me try that again.

Would it still be racist is he was, say, black? Or Hispanic? Or literally anything other than white?

It'd probably still suffer from the orientalism inherent in the concept, but strictly speaking it would not be racist in the same white-saviory way, no. It wouldn't really be for me to say, though.

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Originally Posted by Kiryu

Exactly what I've been saying

You can't white wash a character that's already white.

I want to know who's claiming that the problem is whitewashing, because that's a pretty specific thing and I've never seen anyone claim that as the issue (which it isn't).