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minus-square@Ubermeisters@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agoYeah everything steampunk has pretty much only white people… in my 40 years of seeing art etc.
minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-210 months agoI know of a black dude in a Steampunk band (Steam Powered Giraffe) but that’s it.
minus-square@anyhow2503@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•10 months agoWhere does the white colonialism factor in.
minus-square@DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilink0•10 months agoKind of like complaining that there’s too many black people in your Afrofuturism setting.
minus-square@Ubermeisters@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish2•10 months agoIt was an observation. Not a complaint.
minus-square@Shapillon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•10 months agoTbh it’s an issue with a lot of fantasy settings in our mainstream. (e.g. cottagecore pretty much has an albedo of 1)
Yeah everything steampunk has pretty much only white people… in my 40 years of seeing art etc.
I know of a black dude in a Steampunk band (Steam Powered Giraffe) but that’s it.
Where does the white colonialism factor in.
Kind of like complaining that there’s too many black people in your Afrofuturism setting.
It was an observation. Not a complaint.
Tbh it’s an issue with a lot of fantasy settings in our mainstream.
(e.g. cottagecore pretty much has an albedo of 1)