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Flat White

Why it’s all too white in Westeros

22 April 2019

8:43 PM

22 April 2019

8:43 PM

The old leftie George R R Martin discovers that you can never be woke enough. Because the world of the Chronicles of Fire and Ice can hardly be criticised for lack of strong female characters, some have taken to asking: “great show, but is it racist?”

Yes, apparently there are just aren’t black people in “Game of Thrones”:

This much should have been obvious from way back when the very first episode aired in 2011.

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