Is GOT Racist?

These people need a new f*cking hobby.

LOL.

So if the show is based on European country history, which is mostly white, we need to shovel inclusivity and diversity just so we please the people like you??

Can't you just enjoy art unless there is a certain race included, even when that is against the background of that art??? Actually that sounds racist to me...

And if you cannot enjoy art unless there are plenty of black people in it (which again, in my view is quite racist) then don't watch the show.

Like Cptai Mrvel said: maybe it was not made for you ;)

Easy to fix: we need more African Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors to write Sci-Fi and Fantasy about Africans.

I wouldn't say it's a racist show since people of color are not portrayed in an unfavorable light. Most of the white characters are despicable human beings. While most of the cast is white, Greyworm and Xaro of Qarth are two black characters in significant roles.

Regarding the author’s points about the portrayal of the Dothraki and the Dornish being racist: if you create a fantasy world where the white protagonists are peaceful and civilised while the non-white foreigners are all violent savages, that would be clearly racist. But that is not the case with Game of Thrones. The wildlings are all white and they are violent plunderers and killers. The Iron islanders are all white and they are violent rapists and plunderers and killers. Even the armies of the more “civilised” great houses of Westeros do their fair share of raping, plundering, killing and burning entire villages. So the author’s implication that the depiction of the Dothraki and the Dornish is racist is a bunch of nonsense.

Rofl, can't make this shit up. The videogame Kingdom Come: Deliverance, that takes place in the medieval Kingdom of Bohemia also got accused of racism cause there were no black people there, even up to today you probably will rarely see people of color there!

It's a little off putting that the only black people shown are either castrated or in the slave states across the water. I mean, there are dragons, zombies and giants can't one random house in the north be black? Does the story change at all if House Hornwood is a bunch dudes in fur coats with afros? But it doesn't take away from the story at all. I don't even notice until people, like the author of this article, point it out.

Turn off logic pretend all of us are on an island in the south laughing at the crazy incestual white people in Westeros and just enjoy it.

Isn't racist to be obsesed by race and to make a living by racially scanning everything you see ?

Westeros is like medieval Europe. It would not be very serious if it was full of colored people. Just as I wouldn't expect any white people in a film about Shaka Zulu.