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by jmorphy88 3239 days ago
The fact that we don't know means that we must depict Celts as black, just in case. After all, it's a possibility.
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There could have been one black Celt, no? People did get around.
Why not red? I mean, how do you know there wasn't one?
I'm not sure what you mean by "red". But as I've said, people did move around. And really, "all Celts were white" is arguably far less likely than "some Celts were not white".
Except no one is saying that. They are questioning the portrayal of a "typical" celt family.
OK, so the cartoon features two people. One light, and one dark. But are the authors claiming 50% dark? And how would they represent 1% dark?
The point of depicting a "typical" scenario is that you don't represent the 1% dark. In the same way that a representation of a "typical" household doesn't include a homeless man, a billionaire, and someone in between. The billionaire and the homeless man are not included because they are not representative of what is typical.