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This is tantamount to blackface.


It's a very bad call, as they just took a white character and darkened her skin. As if ...

I know South Asian people who have lighter skin that I do, and I'm white.

Very offensive.

It's good to diversify. They could have easily added a new character, a person of color.

But to take a white girl and darken her skin?

As if it's all about a person's skin color.

They should've got Hadji from Johnny Quest. 🤣

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Actually the show is even worse than just the blackface. They also managed cultural misappropriation, remember how Simpsons had to have the white guy stop voicing Apu? Well in this Velma shit they got an Asian to voice the very white Daphne... SO they managed to be hypocrites twice.

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