>>716356062I was never a fan of either "epic irony" racism or 100% consciously earnest /pol/ racism beyond surreal obviously-ridiculous "closed pool due to nigra aids" stuff (and I think it's good to also make jokes about white people as a group to go along with it). I think part of the reason shit like that happens is the idea that "socially-accepted problematic white beauty standards" are defined by handsome celebrities and "PoC beauty" is defined by extremely average-looking non-whites when in reality there are plenty of ugly white ethnic features (just look at random brits for example) and in general attractiveness in all races is defined by a relative LACK of super-overt ethnic facial traits.
I don't have the link now but I remember a black artist (pretty skilled, sad he had this attitude) saying "you need to draw black features ACCURATELY" and when he drew a series of "X-Men characters in Yoshiaki Kawajiri style" pictures he made the white dudes handsome and made Bishop absolutely hideous. The idea that this shit is progressive is widespread and you see it all over once you acknowledge it. Also quite common with east-Asian characters in games https://www.quora.com/Why-arent-Asian-video-game-characters-like-Faith-from-Mirrors-Edge-received-well-in-Japan/answer/Richmond-L-Chaisiri
And yeah I know there's also a tendency to make white women look "non-sexist" but it's extra bad with nonwhite characters for a reason. nu-Star Wars' Rey is undeniably more traditionally attractive than Rose Tico and that's kind of the "socially conscious media" default.