Jenn and I have had a disagreement.

[conuly]

I have postdated this so she doesn't see it but also so I don't have to FLock it.

So we were watching TV and there's this whole plotline around eeeeeeeeevil voodoo with eeeeeeeeevil voodoo zombies (not the undead kind, except maybe) with a character who is literally called Baron Samedi. He is evil.

I say that makes it more racist. Her argument is that it's less racist because he's an actual figure in the actual real-world religion. We both agree that the storyline itself is racist as hell, because nearly all instances of voodoo in fiction are.

But is our dear Baron Samedi a mitigating or an aggravating factor here?

I'm right, right?

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[al_zorra]

You know, I have asked myself that very same question so very many times over these decades!