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RNM fandom be like that  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ bonus:

“What happens when a show within a genre that has previously been so white has a black woman as a co-lead and/or a love interest for the white protagonist? You get a lot of complaints about the character and hatred towards the actress for being on the show. Sure, there’s the overt racists, but there’s also people who genuinely believe their inability to sympathise or understand black characters has nothing to do with their race at all. […] By making a black woman a co-lead and/or love interest especially in sci-fi, there’s a subversion to the tropes that a lot of white viewers were comfortable with. Black women being put into roles where the white hero finds them lovable is something they refuse to comprehend. […] Whilst white fandom will see storylines dedicated to white women messing up as good for their character development, black women are not given the same treatment. […] When black characters make mistakes, that’s used as long as the show continues as proof that they are undeserving. When black women are written as justifiably angry or sad, white fandom reads this as abusive and manipulative. If a black woman voices her insecurities, she is whiny and unlikeable. […] When we talk about how racism affects how fandoms view black characters, it doesn’t have to be them using slurs. ”

Bias in the hatred of black characters.