This is a very bold claim to say the least, i think he just tried to illustrate what I was trying to say. The illustration was wrong. Does not mean the person is racist.
I did not say that. I said it as a general rule: undertaking major changes always leads to questions. Obviously the Ciri case has more context to that so a simple change of hue carries more changes.
If you change ethnical origin of a character (be it prime or secondary), it means the whole chararcter background most likely gets changed, not only in the lore itself, but as suggested by many, toward people in real life who took partly ownership of it or identified themselves to that character. And again, from base story Ciri is descendant from white ethnicity background, so for the script writer this also cascades on more parts of the lore/backstory
If a color was just a color, we would not have had the favorable context for such conversation to begin with.
To take on our friend's bad example, if one of the characters in Black Panther (not the main one, but a substantially important to the plot, with an already established look and background) was turned into anything else than black, people and fans would have asked for an explanation and that would also have caused an uproar.
And I now don't see that as a false equivalence. The way that equivalence is treated is a different story. As our buddy Visanideth said earlier, relative to many people this is not a 2 way street.
