I get the whole issue about inclusion yada yada, but seriously.
Your skin color and sexuality is not a personality.

It's really questionable and bizarre imo to like a character simply because of that, I know that we're on the internet and online people seem to think that labels equate to personality but cmon.
People don't seem to be able to make up their minds about Y'shtola either, I've seen people say she's African and '' fix '' her in fanart by literally giving her '' black features '' but then suddenly she's not whenever it's convenient ( I don't think she has ever been, people are rewriting history ).
I get wanting to see characters that look like you etc, but I really think people put far too much weight on that alone too.
It doesn't make the character a good character.

Quote Originally Posted by korekera View Post
PoC is a term because of colonization. The Other is a concept that arises because of the dominance of European states during colonial history. Ignoring the term PoC is to ignore history.
The entire planet doesn't revolve around the US or the very specific European countries most closely related to the history of the US ( which is also ignoring all of the colonizing and slavery on a mass scale done by Middle Eastern nations and Empires and other '' PoC '' people like the Japanese themselves in very recent history ).
To use PoC in the way and for the reasons people do is also to ignore history or to very specifically zero in on one very specific part of history that is not relevant to everyone.

We're not talking on a forum dedicated to US politics right now, this is a global forum and a game made by the Japanese.
PoC is a strange term imo too because '' colored people '' is meant to be racist as far as I understand and I really don't see how it's any different.
And very specifically excluding '' white people '' which is a term in and of itself that is ahistorical and oversimplifying things from a very US pov too also excludes people with hundreds years of history of being oppressed much of which is still being felt today.

I swear I hate how US-centric the internet is, things are not and have never been this simple.
The US is a very young country with a very young history and Europe is not homogeneous.