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>Think about being a PoC in the 1980s where every villain in mass media looks like you.

The implication being that all PoC have a common look? I find the unintended racism in this sentence pretty hilarious.

The implication being that Mass Media villains inevitably tended to be African American, Russian, or Arab. They were often portrayed as speaking English poorly, uneducated, and klutzy. Speak to an African American child of the 1980s and, yes, they notice this. Not sure why you would find this funny, this was a very serious issue where Mass Media decided to centrally write and cast only a handful of minority groups as villains.

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