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My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
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I wish I still could. But the bottom just kinda fell out for me, and I'm seeing a bunch of problems, and some that might seem hypocritical to bring up in the same breath, like why are they even going down this road when the show's main goal is to sell little plastic ponies and "Pony" is right there in the name, but if you're going to do it, do it _*right_* and don't do it like _*this_*. The non-ponies should feel like they come from other cultures, there should be some understanding to be reached.


 
I don't know. I just don't. My brain parts aren't talking to each other right now. But I'm seeing hols in things that I could ignore before.


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Now. In the technical sense, they are like the guys from Captain planet or the old Power Rangers. They are all token race characters, including Sandbar (The token white in the team).[

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It is because the staff decided to make a team with one of each race. Not because they are actually racist one way or another. /bq]

 
I don't feel like that makes them special. The Mane Six had things they stood for, and the CMC looked like they were meant for great things, and we barely know the pillars, but the Student Six feel like they didn't qualify so much as got picked off a checklist. There's no indication that their roles couldn't have been just as easily filled by another random member of their race. They're a shopping list, _*these_* groups exist and we need someone from _*this_* one and _*this_* one. But the other ones don't even need to be mentioned even in passing. Like how the first group of Power Rangers needed a black one and an asian one but not, for instance, a hispanic one, or like how they needed a Planeteer from the Soviet Union and a Planeteer from South America, but not one from India or Australia or whatever. "Hey, if you're going out, pick up a dragon and a hippogriff for us, would you? Whichever ones are on sale is fine. Oh, and don't get a minotaur like you did last time, you know those things just wind up getting pushed to the back of the fridge and nobody remembers they're there until they start smelling funny."
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Scrounge
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!
Since the Beginning  -

nobody's favorite
"@raakamagna":/2010883#comment_8058676
I wish I still could. But the bottom just kinda fell out for me, and I'm seeing a bunch of problems, and some that might seem hypocritical to bring up in the same breath, like why are they even going down this road when the show's main goal is to sell little plastic ponies and "Pony" is right there in the name, but if you're going to do it, do it _right_ and don't do it like _this_. The non-ponies should feel like they come from other cultures, there should be some understanding to be reached.

I don't know. I just don't. My brain parts aren't talking to each other right now. But I'm seeing hols in things that I could ignore before.


"@raakamagna":/2010883#comment_8057765
[bq="raakamagna"] Now. In the technical sense, they are like the guys from Captain planet or the old Power Rangers. They are all token race characters, including Sandbar (The token white in the team).[
It is because the staff decided to make a team with one of each race. Not because they are actually racist one way or another. /bq]
I don't feel like that makes them special. The Mane Six had things they stood for, and the CMC looked like they were meant for great things, and we barely know the pillars, but the Student Six feel like they didn't qualify so much as got picked off a checklist. There's no indication that their roles couldn't have been just as easily filled by another random member of their race. They're a shopping list, _these_ groups exist and we need someone from _this_ one and _this_ one. But the other ones don't even need to be mentioned even in passing. Like how the first group of Power Rangers needed a black one and an asian one but not, for instance, a hispanic one, or like how they needed a Planeteer from the Soviet Union and a Planeteer from South America, but not one from India or Australia or whatever. "Hey, if you're going out, pick up a dragon and a hippogriff for us, would you? Whichever ones are on sale is fine. Oh, and don't get a minotaur like you did last time, you know those things just wind up getting pushed to the back of the fridge and nobody remembers they're there until they start smelling funny."
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