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minus-squareRizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down8·2 years agoSteampunk asks the question, “what if there was more white colonialism in history?”
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvernlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·2 years agoNot sure how you get that, because it’s either fantasy or alt-history that usually sees the British Steam Empire as the bad guy but okay.
minus-squareUbermeisters@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down4·2 years agoYeah everything steampunk has pretty much only white people… in my 40 years of seeing art etc.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 years agoI know of a black dude in a Steampunk band (Steam Powered Giraffe) but that’s it.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvernlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down5·2 years agoKind of like complaining that there’s too many black people in your Afrofuturism setting.
minus-squareUbermeisters@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·2 years agoIt was an observation. Not a complaint.
minus-squareShapillon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoTbh it’s an issue with a lot of fantasy settings in our mainstream. (e.g. cottagecore pretty much has an albedo of 1)
minus-squareanyhow2503@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 years agoWhere does the white colonialism factor in.
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Steampunk asks the question, “what if there was more white colonialism in history?”
Not sure how you get that, because it’s either fantasy or alt-history that usually sees the British Steam Empire as the bad guy but okay.
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.
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)
Where does the white colonialism factor in.
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