Why Sci-fi & Fantasy Can't Fix Its White Savior Problem

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Time Stamps:
00:00 Start
01:00 White Man's Burden
03:25 Mighty Whitey Trope
13:00 Skillshare
15:56 Dune (Spoilers for Part Two)
24:52 Dany & Game of Thrones
40:07 Why The Discourse?
52:57 Credits xx

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? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/apr/22/norse-code-white-supremacists-reading-the-northman-robert-eggers

?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Imperialism

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?https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Eugenics-and-Scientific-Racism

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