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minus-squareRizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down8·1 year agoSteampunk asks the question, “what if there was more white colonialism in history?”
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year 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-down4·1 year agoYeah everything steampunk has pretty much only white people… in my 40 years of seeing art etc.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoI know of a black dude in a Steampunk band (Steam Powered Giraffe) but that’s it.
minus-squareanyhow2503@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoWhere does the white colonialism factor in.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down5·1 year agoKind of like complaining that there’s too many black people in your Afrofuturism setting.
minus-squareUbermeisters@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoIt was an observation. Not a complaint.
minus-squareShapillon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoTbh it’s an issue with a lot of fantasy settings in our mainstream. (e.g. cottagecore pretty much has an albedo of 1)
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.
Where does the white colonialism factor in.
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)
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