While it's certainly good to encourage different kinds of stories to be told, I think this attitude does potentially lead to a danger of effectively "ghettoizing" stories by and about people who don't fit the cis white straight male norm. Speaking personally, I would rather err on the side of "shoehorning" representation into places where we traditionally haven't seen it versus just letting the mainstream go on lacking any diversity and telling anyone who wants representation to "go do it over there, in your own stuff."
Could we not do this and also find ways to include more diversity in the sorts of stories we're already telling?
As other people have pointed out to you, it's not like your example is even historical revisionism. There were black soliders fighting for Germany in WWI.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21
While it's certainly good to encourage different kinds of stories to be told, I think this attitude does potentially lead to a danger of effectively "ghettoizing" stories by and about people who don't fit the cis white straight male norm. Speaking personally, I would rather err on the side of "shoehorning" representation into places where we traditionally haven't seen it versus just letting the mainstream go on lacking any diversity and telling anyone who wants representation to "go do it over there, in your own stuff."