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Twitch the racr12/23/2023 ![]() ![]() I grew up with amazing role models on TV in Doctor Who in the 1970s. I understand that reaction, and why people say it.īut this, to me, is what the context of the time was. When you point all this out, a common reaction is for people to say things along the lines of “Well, that’s just how it was” and “you have to understand it in the context of the time.” Whose corpse they just leave lying on the floor at the end of the final episode.Ĭaptain Chin Lee in The Mind of Evil is an inscrutable oriental mystery.Īnd while “I warned you, Julius!” might have become a catchphrase for the marathon, that actual opening scene in The Web Of Fear is an excruciating watch because the Julius Silverstein character is an absolute pile-up of anti-semitic tropes from the name down. Toberman in Tomb of the Cyberman, although a hero at the end, is a mostly silent servile black man, only utilised for his brute strength. But I did want to write out more fully a few of the thoughts I’ve had about the representation of diversity in classic Doctor Who.Īs we’ve got into the Pertwee era, the Twitch chat has begun to rub up against the fact that across the first two decades of Doctor Who there are hardly any characters who aren’t white, and of the few there are, a couple fall into very obvious and crude racial stereotypes. I said that I’d love to see a long read or essay about Doctor Who, race, and the reaction of people watching the show on the current #DoctorWhoOnTwitch marathon, but that I wasn’t the best placed person to write it.
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