Originally Posted by
DemonRin
Imagine we were talking about something the world is already in agreement is bad, like Racism here.
Imagine DC Rebooted again and this time the DC Universe had NO Black characters whatsoever. They just flat out don't exist, there are no black people in the DC Universe one way or another. Then, about 19 issues in, one of the white characters you've seen the entire series states that they are actually black, they have a skin disease not unlike Michael Jackson did and their skin lightened as a result. You now have knowledge that character is supposed to be black, but because of the skin condition, they keep drawing that character white and anyone is now free to ignore that character being black as much as they want, because the "Really am black" thing just never gets brought up again after issue 19.
Now, imagine Issue 37 comes up, and suddenly, there's a new villain character introduced who appears on a surface level to be black, they have a much darker tone of skin than everyone else is drawn. It's explained in-story that character is actually white but got into an accident with some chemicals that gave them some kind of power, but also permanently rendered their skin a darker brown than all the other characters are drawn. IF you READ the issue, you read the explanation for why this character isn't REALLY Black, but by all appearances in the art, it's a person with darker than typical (remember, in this scenario, the entire DC Universe is white) skin who is totally evil.
If a black person complained about that, would you call them a whiner?