User blog comment:Thewritersdiary/Something That Bothers Me/@comment-26247132-20151210013401

From all the comments and posts I've read that try to point out the racism in this show, every single one of them was factually wrong in many different aspects, from death count to incidents of torture to names of characters that it's like these people never even watched the show??

The two big ones:


 * Cultural appropriation: this is a society 150 years in the future with a culture made up of the remnants of all the cultures existing before the apocalypse. Or were they only allowed to appropriate white culture? (That's what the Mountain Men symbolized, in case anyone missed it.)
 * And the whole Octavia/Grounder culture argument is ridiculous on so many levels. Octavia had no culture to begin with! She was never raised a Sky Person. By that logic, now that she's living at Camp Jaha, she must be mis-appropriating Sky People culture.
 * POC-face: Lexa's allegedly darker than the actress (maybe depending on the time of year? Idk, I can't tell any difference.) and a BTS S3 pic of Clarke shows her orange-tinted. (Not sure what race that's supposed to represent? Oompa-loompas?) Besides the need of make-up for lighting when filming, white people can also get tan when they're outside all day.

If they presented worthwhile arguments, then maybe.... but I'm still not seeing any racism in the show. It's hate-mongering and it's unfortunate so it's best to just ignore it, otherwise they get more publicity and notice and keep doing it. Don't feed the trolls.