Maybe in some sort of period AU? But I think most people usually avoid that.
Really, I think the tendency in fanfic is often to go in the other direction and not include racially offensive verbiage in dialogue even if it's canonical-- even when it's a persistent, recurring aspect of the way the character speaks, as opposed to Gene's one-time, meant to be extra shocking because it *wasn't* something he usually said, use of "Paki."
Unsurprisingly, people still write stories about characters who *use* racist language-- they just avoid including the characters who are the *target* of it. This is why I think there's so little written for otherwise classic antagonist-slash pairings like House/Foreman or Logan Echolls/Weevil Navarro. If you have Logan and Weevil in the same room for more than five minutes, Logan is going to say racist things. It would be OOC for him NOT to say racist things. But I think people get really, really nervous about writing those sorts of things, even if they're putting them in the mouths of a fictional character.
Like if you're writing House. What if you go TOO FAR instead of writing him saying something just sort of "un-PC" which Foreman rolls his eyes at, you write him saying something horribly, horribly racist and then people comment being like "OMG, why would House ever SAY that? That's horrible!!" Etc. I think it's a fear related thing, as most of this usually boils down to be.
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Date: 2008-08-13 08:26 am (UTC)Maybe in some sort of period AU? But I think most people usually avoid that.
Really, I think the tendency in fanfic is often to go in the other direction and not include racially offensive verbiage in dialogue even if it's canonical-- even when it's a persistent, recurring aspect of the way the character speaks, as opposed to Gene's one-time, meant to be extra shocking because it *wasn't* something he usually said, use of "Paki."
Unsurprisingly, people still write stories about characters who *use* racist language-- they just avoid including the characters who are the *target* of it. This is why I think there's so little written for otherwise classic antagonist-slash pairings like House/Foreman or Logan Echolls/Weevil Navarro. If you have Logan and Weevil in the same room for more than five minutes, Logan is going to say racist things. It would be OOC for him NOT to say racist things. But I think people get really, really nervous about writing those sorts of things, even if they're putting them in the mouths of a fictional character.
Like if you're writing House. What if you go TOO FAR instead of writing him saying something just sort of "un-PC" which Foreman rolls his eyes at, you write him saying something horribly, horribly racist and then people comment being like "OMG, why would House ever SAY that? That's horrible!!" Etc. I think it's a fear related thing, as most of this usually boils down to be.