#but it gets sooooo much messier when you make actual fierce dangerous animals into some kind of minority group

[sangled]

I wanted to put this in an ask instead of burying it in the notes but i think the reason 'racism metaphor with different species' happens so often is because the anthropomorphization process turns the different species into animal versions of fantasy races. not different variations of the same species, nor completely separate species with separate (and possibly conflicting) niches, but a secret third thing that does both (and racism metaphors) worse

then again fantasy races don't have predator-prey dynamics as far as i know... or do they

also are there any solutions to this problem that you know?

hold on lemme make a chart

#sangspeaks #basically there's no issue representing different personalities/behavior with anthropomorphic creatures #like even zootopia was interesting with the notion that judy was a small feminine bunny who was discriminated based on her size #but it gets sooooo much messier when you make actual fierce dangerous animals into some kind of minority group #this is moreso with animal allegories #if you're doing this in a story where everyone's an alien idk you might have a better time since you can make up your own logic