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[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago

I'm torn between "They're dabbing on us, they're the hungry ghosts irl and they will not rest until the world is swallowed whole" and "the author whose only notable Asian character was named Cho Chang probably has no idea what the word means and someone pulled a funny prank"

[-] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

Wait... What's wrong with "Cho Chang"???

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Cho is a Korean surname and Chang is a Chinese one. It's kinda like calling your Irish character McGregor O'Connor

[-] Biggay@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

thats funny im stealing that name

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Make sure you also take his buddy, Fernandez Cousteau.

[-] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Eh, this seems overblown to me. Plenty of better battles to pick on with that author

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Just sayin' that it's reasonable evidence to suggest that she picked "Samsara" without really noodling through the cultural implications.

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

In isolation, nothing much at all. But all her non-WASP characters have lazy, stereotypical names, so it's a little more suspicious. Combine that with knowing she's an enormous bigot in real life, and yeah, there might be a problem with that.