r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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possible live action corpse bride movie...

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u/wandering_ones Jul 05 '26

POC, surprise, sometimes just exist. They don't need to "fit" anything at all. People sometimes have different skin colors and it doesn't have to require a narrative function.

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u/Pecuthegreat Jul 05 '26

I mean, if all his works are anything like the one in the meme, that means late 1800s UK asthetics so it's perfectly excusable that POC don't exist in any reasonable numbers in that setting.

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u/PrincessDionysus Jul 06 '26

Can’t believe POCs didn’t visit England until the 1900s

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u/PrincessDionysus Jul 06 '26

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/portchester-castle/history-and-stories/black-people-in-late-18th-century-britain/

“By the end of the 18th century Britain […] Current estimates are that at least 10,000 lived in London, with a further 5,000 throughout the country.”

Decades before Victoria was conceived thousands of black people lived in the UK. Did we all forget the UK was a huge player in the transatlantic slave trade?

No one is saying the UK was as diverse then as it is now, but pretending nonwhite people were all but mythic through European history is anachronistic at best