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Author: unfound

Oct 20th 2012 at 7:18:04 PM

How are you supposed to find examples for this? List every couple in fiction and complain about each one failing to depict an interracial relationship?

Obviously this exists, but there isn't any good way to get examples. Listing black/other nonwhite race relationships like the {{Hitch}} example won't work, because the wiki hive mind isn't very good at drawing distinctions like that and we'd end up with every single black/Hispanic relationship in fiction on the page.

The problem is that this stigma is dying, but at an inconsistent pace. It's averted pretty regularly nowadays, but it's definitely not gone. That means modern aversions are sometimes meaningless, but modern straight example are hard to discern, and there's no clear cutoff to when examples of either are notable or not. At the same point in time, there are some creators defiantly, intentionally averting this while others who avert it do so casually and might not even consider race a factor.

I can't see this working without it turning into a clueless shaming of works for failing to be sufficiently race-blind.