#they whitewash her design they CHANGED OUT HER VA FOR A WHITE ONE.

[dogboyklug]

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[bigpharmanutsack]

I know i dont make text posts often, so you're in for a treat!

This post will be about whitewashing, what whitewashing is, why, and how to pick out actual offensive items.

First off, what is whitewashing?

Whitewashing is the act of changing a darkskinned character's skin from their cannon shade to one that is considered white.

In fact, i have made a small chart with examples on it!

Before you go on a tirade, let me explain the examples.

In the first set, we have a black character whose skin has been changed to have a purple tone to it. This is not whitewashing! The character still has noticably black skin!

In the seccond example, a black character is turned white! This is very obvious case of white washing.

In the third set, we see a green fox or cat. They are given a human design with light skin. This is not white washing. The animal was not specifically designed to resemble any race, giving artist free roam.

In the fourth set we have Garnet. Garnet is not a human, so how can she be whitewashed? Well, the answer lies in how she's portrayed. She is blantantly designed to look PoC and has a PoC VA. Making her white is definitely whitewashing.

Now, for rhe last set, the one we've all been waiting for.

Yam cookie. Yam cookie is just that. A cookie. He is not designed to be human at all. He is not characterized as any race at all. He is just that, a cookie. However, if he was like garnet, where it is heavily implied that he is PoC, then drawing him white would be whitewashing.

But he isn't. He's a cookie.

A cookie made out of a purple plant.

He's a cookie.

Case closed. Shut up about it, because I know you only know a surface level amount about whitewashing if you categorize it as that.