User blog comment:Skyzy/What Would It Take?/@comment-26247132-20160305061129

ALL of the POCs have been turned into villains, killed off, extensively tortured and imprisoned, or turned into drug dealers/users. Right now, all you have to do is literally look at the color of the person's skin to figure out what their purpose is in the story. I'm just going to copy/paste this here to try to catch everyone up:

''Out of the mains: Jaha is a tech drug dealer, Lincoln was a drug addict/user, Raven is now a drug user, and all the rest (Wells) are dead (and Lincoln will soon be, too). ''

''Out of the minors, Jones hasn't appeared since Season One. Indra is constantly having her people killed off and her village destroyed (dropship explosion, Finn massacre, MW missile, and Pike's crew) and she has also been shot twice and bombed. Plus, she's stuck following a leader she no longer agrees with and just got "saved" by Octavia. Pike is a war criminal and Miller is most likely safe only because he's LGBTQ. Miller and his dad, we'll see if they survive the season.... ''

''All of that excessive stereotyping is called covert racism. It is real, it exists today, and it's pervassive in the media.''

''It would never be held acceptable in this day and age for three women to be villains while the saviors were men. So why is it acceptable now for it to be three POC [Pike, Bellamy, and Hannah] as villains and the saviors as white? Answer: it isn't.''

''So everyone who praises this show as "women-empowering" and LGBTQ-friendly should ignore its treatment of POCs? You know why it's "women-empowering?" Because it DOES regulate how it treats its white female characters. Look to Abby, Clarke, Lexa, and Octavia for an example. (Raven, Dr. Tsing, Indra, Anya, and Hannah, on the other hand, are examples of how they treat their WOC).''