Topic on Talk:Malik Destiny

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I don't know if IRM is an ideal choice in this situation just because the original page does have it's significant issues. The blatantly offensive part has been removed but it still has that tinge of the idea of what in western countries an immigrant and children of immigrants "should" be, especially one from a country that is wildly demonized in media like those in the Middle East. That being the idea of needing to wholly reject everything about your country or origin while staying completely uncritical of your new one. By no means am I saying this was the intent of the page but whether by complete accident or subconscious biases it did still made it in. When I proposed to remove the "land that encouraged thievery" line this was very much something that was on my mind cause it was simply the worst part of a larger problem but I didn't want to really start something over it cause someone who actually is from the Middle East brought it up before in a previous talk page and was pretty much soundly rejected. This new version solves this particular issue pretty elegantly by giving Malik a connection to Kuwait and giving the tattoo an alternate meaning so the anti-monarchist sentiment doesn't directly play into that trope. If in the end there is an IRM I think those parts should be added to both versions of the page