Igning the other issues, this moment in the trailer was so cringeworthy. A person flying toward the camera out of a portal, who has a Disney-Pixar-looking "forced smile" the whole time. Do people in fiction, just lose the fear of death, do certain writers think? Being *almost killed or maimed* isn't meant to be fun...
What bothers me about this diverse, beautiful, stunning and brave cast of characters is the lore implications (not that Bioware or their fans care). People irl don't have Asian or black features for no reason, they aren't just whites but somehow black at the same time, there is a genetic and environmental component there. The two extremely gorgeous and colorful elves are Dalish, judging from the face tattoos, so the lore implication is that there is a not-Africa and not-Asia in Thedas and they too were somehow enslaved by the Tevinters whose empire's borders aren't world-spanning. It's bizarre and if I were not white I'd be accusing them of color-blind casting and racial insensitivity, even colorism.
Congrats, you already put more thought into it than the writers.
It's a very deliberate decades-long way of normalising colonialism by globalist imperialists against whites. Largely at the expense of poor white working class people. There are times, in the UK, a white homeland, where 75% of advert breaks will be super-diverse. Meanwhile Nigeria bans non-Nigerians from adverts. People have never at any point given consent to mass migration. They want to normalise the idea that the situation was always like this, when it wasn't. So, I would say some "kind" of thought has been put into this. Just not honest, compassionate, critical, or good natured thought. Hateful, assumptive, vengeful thought.
Put diversity into historical dramas set at a time when Europe was near 100% white. Do this while suicide rates are already sky high, with young people struggling to find their roots. Stuff European fantasy, a genre based on medieval Europe, with diversity, but insist on say an Asian cast for 'Avatar: The Last Airbender'. Make it inexplicable too, because there is no air travel, just random West African descended people somehow, with nobody to give birth to them. Migraton and propaganda drives native people to dispair, drives wages down, drives property prices up, and fits the 1948 UN definition of genocide, but "we are the good guys".
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Of course that's not how these people justify it to themselves, they say it's to make people feel included, to show mercy. They appeal to the "Good Samaritan" fable. The real agenda is demonstrated more by absence. What isn't done. What isn't said. They show compassion to criminals, but absense of compassion to the victims of crime. Their inclusivity doesnt extend to whites. Their eye for finding victims, doesn't find anything to pity among the white poor, the white rape victim, the endangered tribe outside the Amazon rainforest. Cultural appropriation is simulatiously a moral wrong, but fine against whites, afterall the fantasy genre is a part of European culture.
