catswithbaseballbats:

traumacalls: traumacalls: “If I want to draw a black character white I can”

Nope try again bye You can reblog this especially if youre white well then why is it fine for white characters to be drawn black? personally i don’t care either way but you have to understand these are some pretty big double standards you’re setting up

Because there’s a difference. Drawing an originally black character white is something very common in the media called whitewashing, in which a dark skinned person and/or character is purposely edited or drawn so that they’re lighter for one of several bullshit reasons, including but not limited to:

It’ll make them look nicer

They’ll look more approachable

People will relate to them more

And, my personal favourite: portraying black characters is too political!

While on the other hand, drawing a lightskinned character as darkskinned is just that. Personally, i prefer keeping even white characters white, but it certainly isn’t harmful in any way to white people, because most of the media is white/lightskinned, they aren’t ever at risk of being scrutinized in the eye of the media for the colour of their skin.