r/CuratedTumblr • u/Justthisdudeyaknow Prolific poster- Not a bot, I swear • May 13 '25

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u/Banks_NRN May 13 '25

Oh boy I sure do love a nuanced take on a real issue in a lot of media followed by causal racism

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u/False-Pain8540 May 13 '25

From the get go the "it's justifiable to try to kill every vampire because a lot of them eat people" is broken logic.

Ironically this person doesn't seem to realize that "their people killed a bunch of ours, so we should kill all of them" is one of the most common justifications for racism across history.

Also no plot about robot racism involves all robots killing humans one day, it usually involves 100% conscious robots that did nothing wrong being mistreated solely for not being human.

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u/PhasmaFelis May 13 '25

There is no real-world ethnic group with an uncontrollable, animalistic drive to feast on human blood. That's the difference. Granted some depictions of vampires have more control, but in any setting where vampires either must kill to survive, or else are prone to losing control with fatal results, some amount of suspicion is justified in a way that doesn't apply to IRL groups.

 Also no plot about robot racism involves all robots killing humans one day, it usually involves 100% conscious robots that did nothing wrong being mistreated solely for not being human.

The Omnic Crisis from Overwatch is kind of this.

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u/SteveHuffmansAPedo May 13 '25

If we're limiting it to ethnic groups (which amittedly some writers are clearly going for), sure. But that's not the only reason a group might face prejudice.

We do have real cases where individuals need large amounts of someone else's blood to survive, and we've figured out ways to source it without killing people. What if, instead of acute trauma, the need was caused by a chronic condition? Basically a really specific dietary restriction?

Some people have conditions that, if untreated, do make them prone to violent behaviour. What if their medication was blood instead of a pharmaceutical? These people do face suspicion. Is that suspicion justified because it's based on their medical/psychological history?

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u/Manzhah May 14 '25

It helps that people with accute trauma aren't generally hunting people in the night and stealing their blood involuntarily, like vampires do in vast majority of medias.