So first off a Tumblr called "MedievalPoC" is you source here?
And what's wrong? They never give an example of black people in Bohemia, just that paintings depicting Africans were done. People were always interested in culture outside their own why do you think Aladdin "takes place" in China?
And yes, the burden of proof is on the person claiming they were around in number. That's how it works. Weird how there are documented communities for some minorities like Jews and Turkic people but not for black people almost like they weren't present there
My source is what I found when I tried to trace the outrage to its roots. That tumblr post being shown on tumblrinaction seems to have triggered a lot of shit and brought a lot of attention to the issue.
As for the credibility of the tumblr account that specializes in poc in history? I'm inclined to defer, since they seem quite well read, they present arguments in a well-structured manner, and they provide clear references. I'm not saying anything is wrong, but to me it definitely looks like the statement that "poc in 15th century Bohemia were very very rare" isn't entirely correct. And let's be clear, I'm not talking about black people, I'm talking about people of color, because that's what MedievalPOC is talking about.
Listen I'm not going to exactly trust MedievalPoC as much as a legitimate source. It's literally a Tumblr blog.
The start was a writer attacking the game for not including black people, spinning it to be PoC to cloud the argument and go "well actually..." Is ridiculous and spinning to suit the argument.
And minorities in those days were in far fewer numbers than the minorities of today.
But to be clear Turkish people and Arabs are PoC now?
They're white on the US census, didn't people call JonTron white just last year? He'd be a "PoC" by those standards.
I despise the term PoC. I come from a multicultural family. Talk about what they are not just "Not White" (which seems to be including more and more now)
Lucky MedievalPOC literally cites legitimate sources that you can peruse. I've noticed that there seems to be some outrage that black people aren't represented enough in every European game. I haven't seen that here, but that specifically I think can often be very farfetched and ignorant.
As for what actually accounts to POC, again the MedievalPOC post addresses this, because historical accounts categorize people by religion and ethnicity rather than race. So in a sense they actually echo your concern. As for despising the term POC, sorry about that. It's a commonly used term, coined by POC. ---
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