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[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-verge-final-fantasy-xvi%E2%80%99s-lack-of-diverse-characters-makes-a-huge-world-feel-small.734409/page-7
Thread still locked, no one banned for calling brown people not real diversity

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-verge-final-fantasy-xvi%E2%80%99s-lack-of-diverse-characters-makes-a-huge-world-feel-small.734409/page-7#post-107967177

User banned (permanent): Dismissing concerns around representation. Long history of severe bans.

With how American centric this website is, it's not a surprise how can some people here can be hostile or downright racist toward MENA people.
To be disappointed or to criticize the game or its producer for his word or for the handling of PoC is fine and natural.

But to litterally take a shade chart to dismiss an entire people or culture ? To go as far as to say "yeah, they don't mind "tanned people" (wtf ????) because of colourism" in today's climate and post 9/11 is tone deaf af and completly out of reality. Seriously, Tfou 3lik.

Unfortunately a lot of people here seem to be specifically talking about the inclusion of sub-saharan africans when the topic of diversity comes up, and consider any other addition of PoC flawed or half-baked.

 

Of course it's the people who call out that only black characters seem to matter who get banned. Nepenthe totally staying true to her word