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[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know if I'm more shocked that Adams didn't have a black character before 2022 or that newspapers were still carrying an overt racist's strip in 2022.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

wait, i thought the elbonians were black.

[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I always saw them as some kind of Eastern European caricature

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

it's been so long i really don't remember. we're both right maybe

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 5 hours ago

They're white. Sort of Russian caricatures, I think.