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>>2275562
Exactly. Even when people from that group contact them to say they're doing just as bad a job with their misrepresentation, or that they don't like someone else speaking out on their behalf, they just get deflected. And if you're not going to do your research about how to represent someone from a group you don't belong to, the least you can do is not make that minority group THE thing about that character, the whole reason for them even existing. Make it not the focus, just have it be something about them that's just part of them but wouldn't make them or break them without it, such as pic related. His eye patch is a more necessary feature than his skin color, it hints at so much more about his past and who he is than his race does, that's how to make it so his story is his character, not his race.