TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months agoWhite liberals stop ascribing mystical qualities to black people challenge: impossiblehexbear.netimagemessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down13
arrow-up1167arrow-down1imageWhite liberals stop ascribing mystical qualities to black people challenge: impossiblehexbear.netTemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-squareWittyProfileName2 [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·4 months agoWhat’s the name for that trope, where a black character will be written into fiction for the sole purpose of helping the white protagonist (usually by acting as the author’s mouthpiece)? This woman seems to’ve melded her very being with it.
minus-squareAnarchoAnarchist [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·4 months agohttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalNegro This one?
minus-squareTemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·edit-24 months agoShe was one of the people who made a movie like Green Book a box office hit in 2019
minus-squareFrogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-24 months agoI liked Green Mile even if it reeks of that trope Edit: lmao I read that entirely wrong. I read Green Mile and not Green Book. Yeah, Green Book was god awful.
minus-squaretactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·4 months agoFavorite movie is probably The Green Mile.
minus-squareasante [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoalso linked with the Uncle Tom stereotype
What’s the name for that trope, where a black character will be written into fiction for the sole purpose of helping the white protagonist (usually by acting as the author’s mouthpiece)?
This woman seems to’ve melded her very being with it.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalNegro
This one?
She was one of the people who made a movie like Green Book a box office hit in 2019
I liked Green Mile even if it reeks of that trope
Edit: lmao I read that entirely wrong. I read Green Mile and not Green Book. Yeah, Green Book was god awful.
Favorite movie is probably The Green Mile.
also linked with the Uncle Tom stereotype