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#2: Aug 3rd 2017 at 8:11:06 AM
- ) We dont rename tropes based on people on Facebook (or else where on the web) objecting to it. We rename them if the're broken.
- ) We are not prescriptive; we don't name tropes based on what we think "should be" ,we name them based on what is.
- ) Yes, the name is racist. The trope is racist. The name was coined by Spike Lee because the trope is racist.
- ) The name Magical Negro" is a pre-existing term used outside of this wiki (See above: coined by Spike Lee in 2001 — three years before TV Tropes even existed.): we didn't make it up. It's widely used in lit-crit and scholarly works of analysis.
- ) It's not simply that they're "Token" so that suggestion doesn't even apply to the trope.
To your other points: Merging the various "Magical" tropes will not accomplish anything good. It will simply muddy the distinctions between them; these distinctions include where the "magic" generally comes from and what the lesson they're there to teach the white protagonist tends to be.
Declining to open.
edited 3rd Aug '17 8:12:21 AM by Madrugada
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So we REALLY need to change the name on this trope - the trope name is itself racist and I've noticed various threads on Facebook complaining about it. Personally, I think we need to merge it under Token Minority and make a Token Minority subtrope for all of the Magicals (Magical Queer, Magical Native American, etc) OR we need to change the name to something like Magical Black Person or Token African-American.