I made this carrd simply to educate those who refuse to listen to black voices, please go over this carrd if you are nb, I'd honestly beg you. If you want to keep silencing us and ignoring us, can you at least educate yourself using this carrd?

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WHITEWASHING

The image above is an example of whitewashing. The first photo (the dark skinned one) was the original character. The person decided to edit it to be way more pale, and even made her hair straight removing her afro buns (a hairstyle for black peoples hair because we have a different hairtype.) hence removing all the black in her. (Her black features) whitewashing her which is also rooted in colorism. because dark skin is seen as bad and light skin is seen as clean. That REMOVED the black representation in her. the ONLY black character we have in genshin impact. you should see by now that this is wrong.

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"BLACKWASHING"

Editing a character to have more black features, such as skin tone, lips, and hair type. to add black representation to a character, not removing it. Hence a blasian edit. They are also called black edits, but black is a umbrella term. Black can stand for blasian edit, or black mixed with any race and/or ethnicity etc. It ADDS representation, it doesn't remove it. you might be thinking "your removing east asian features though" Most characters that are edited to be black don't even have east asian features to begin with.
"Oh, but making them white is adding white rep!"
Why in the world do white people, who are represented in media EVERYWHERE, need more rep? They are so overly represented, that's the whole point of blasian edits, to ADD REP.

take genshin chars or anime chars for example. They mainly don't even have east asian features. The eyes? No one changes them. The cultural clothing? No one changes it. And even when things like this do happen it's so much more unlikely then you think and normally the people who do this are literally white.

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"Make your own OC"

The fact that your telling us to make OUR OWN representation is just wrong. we have to make our own repersenation because nb (nonblack) people won't make rep for us. We do make our own repersenation, but it barley gets the attention or blows up. We have tried to many times but enstead white artists blow up.

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"They said they are fixing it!"

That is the only case where it's wrong, however that gives you no right to be anti-black and this kind of thing rarely happens, it happens wayyy less then you think.

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If your white, you have no right to state your opinion on this, I would love to have a chat with someone who is actually east asian enstead of a white person on their opinions on making a character blasian.

if you want me to add on something you can contact me here

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You can't "blackwash" a character because to wash something it must be seen as "dirty" and pale skin has never been seen as dirty.
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whitewashing it is to strip a poc character of it's features because poc are seen as "unclean" while white people are seen as "clean". do you get it?
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Whitewashing = making poc "clean" because white people are seen as clean.
"Blackwashing" = something that doesn't exist because for something to be washed it must be seen as dirty, yet pale skin isn't seen as dirty and never will be in society