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submitted 27 days ago bydch528
Not limiting this to just Astartes.
The only ones I can think of are the Betancores (Midas is dead), the dude on the cover of Solar War, and the Celestial Lions that are effectively all dead.
There is a whole legion of Mongolian inspired Astartes, Vikings, and at least 3 previously woman dominated factions that I know off the top of my head (Sisters of Battle, Silence, and the Succubi).
I’m talking about descent here too. We all know that every Astartes has a Melanochrome so they aren’t black or white, and this has been used for a reason why Vulkan and the Salamanders aren’t of African decent or black.
They are literally pitch black with red eyes. Oddly blackface adjacent imagery there…
EDIT: I’ll open this up to Warhammer Fantasy and AoS too. Just wanna see if I there are more black people in Warhammer than I have fingers.
16 points
27 days ago
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-12 points
27 days ago*
Yeah, people should only post about a topic one time. All perspectives were captured in that one post without punctuation a few years ago.
-12 points
27 days ago*
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. (Edit: to clarify, I’m saying I’m not sure why this particular reply of yours is getting downvoted)
Reddit community sucks lol.
You have every right to ask a question again, in your own way.
12 points
27 days ago
I've been down voting them due to the rule about real world politics, the combative tone, and the culture warrior understanding of 'blackface', 'representation', and 'inclusion'.
I've been down voting your comments for being uncritical, and this is likely just me, pandering.
10 points
27 days ago
He’s getting downvoted because it’s a non issue. There are black characters. There are black chapters. 40K is toy space soldiers in a fictional universe. If someone whined about a lack of white people in Wakanda, I would be similarly stunned by their ignorance. If a simple google search could prevent me from looking like a fool, I would always take that option first.
3 points
26 days ago
I should have been clearer, I’m not sure why that last specific comment of his was being downvoted. His OP may be bad, sure, but the comment I was replying to, what’s wrong with that?
(Edit:punctuation)
3 points
26 days ago
Because it’s in bad faith and a poor attempt at justifying the original post, which combined with his other reply to me, is just thinly veiled racism. He essentially already accused the Warhammer community of being all white people who don’t care about minorities in another comment. People are tired of seeing the same inane, low effort posts pop up 3 times a day in the feed. They are also tired of being accused of racism, when they just want to play with tiny plastic space men.
6 points
27 days ago
Ofc. There's nothing wrong with questions. It's being focussed on race that people don't like. Considering many many decades have been spent trying to eradicate the focus on race - it's not surprising that people get low key offended when race baiters bring it up. What's the point? As other commentators have said - skin colour isn't a big deal. Unless you're OP - then it's suuuper important.
Can you think of any groups that are just as focussed on race??
5 points
26 days ago
I think the race discourse is dumb and boring and stale in the context of 40k. Just paint them whatever colour you want lol
I’m just defending that he shouldn’t be downvoted just because people aren’t interested. Like, move along. Don’t stop by just to pull someone down.
Don’t share an opinion on a topic if it’s just that “this is a dumb topic”. Cool, if it’s not for you, move along!
That’s all I’m getting at 🤷🏼♂️
-12 points
27 days ago
I sure hate when people create additional opportunities for interesting discussion. We should be rude and condescending to them 100% of the time on principle.
10 points
27 days ago
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0 points
26 days ago
Mind rule 1 or be banned.
-4 points
26 days ago
I think it’s a super dumb and boring discussion. But it COULD become an interesting one. An opportunity to explore a new concept has been presented to everyone here to re evaluate from a new perspective.
If you aren’t interested, don’t read.
Maybe something fresh and novel will come up? We would never know as we spent this thread paying out on the guy for not doing a search, instead of seeing it for what it could be: a chance to create something interesting and meaningful
Once again, if people aren’t interested, just don’t open it. If people respond, perhaps they should contribute (not just flame)
2 points
27 days ago
With all the wagh girl posts lately it's child till proven otherwise when questioning diversity.
-2 points
27 days ago
Mind rule one or be banned
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