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<blockquote data-quote="transmission89" data-source="post: 8322404" data-attributes="member: 6688441">Alternatively evoking the hun imagery that persisted (informed by the Romano Christian view) that they were essentially the anti christ, bestial foe, destroying pure and good civilisation (again from a very biased Roman point of view. Of course, appalling propaganda to apply to enemies, but such as it was.And we are just going to ignore the white villains that exist with the story to fit this reading? Of course there’s the undercurrent of white vs dark skinned (that is informed by the wider culture of the day), but I don’t think he’s trying to make a statement of white people are good, black people are bad. Really, that conflict is tangential to the main thrust of the narrative. Again, I think just an uniformed cultural bias in writing (like for example, older fantasy art work predominantly featuring white people, as they were painted by white artists, or a near invisibility of LGBT people in media until relatively recently).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="transmission89, post: 8322404, member: 6688441"] Alternatively evoking the hun imagery that persisted (informed by the Romano Christian view) that they were essentially the anti christ, bestial foe, destroying pure and good civilisation (again from a very biased Roman point of view. Of course, appalling propaganda to apply to enemies, but such as it was. And we are just going to ignore the white villains that exist with the story to fit this reading? Of course there’s the undercurrent of white vs dark skinned (that is informed by the wider culture of the day), but I don’t think he’s trying to make a statement of white people are good, black people are bad. Really, that conflict is tangential to the main thrust of the narrative. Again, I think just an uniformed cultural bias in writing (like for example, older fantasy art work predominantly featuring white people, as they were painted by white artists, or a near invisibility of LGBT people in media until relatively recently). [/QUOTE]

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