thejusticethatissocial:

[Image description – a series of tweets by Díacolleté‏ @dialacina: 

You know, all the dudes that spout shit about PoC in a medieval-themed game would be inaccurate?

They never get upset about potatoes.

I had pockets full of potatoes before I bounced the fuck out of Witcher 3. Which according to its defenders takes place in _Medieval_ Poland. You know what definitely didn’t exist in Medieval Poland? The potato. You know why? BECAUSE SPAIN HADN’T BEEN TO PERU YET. And Spain wouldn’t get its shit together to bring the potato back to Europe until the mid-late 16th century.

So let’s say you actually believe that legends were true, that dragons and elves and noonwraiths existed in medieval Europe. Fine. The fucking potato didn’t. End of story. Your game is now COMPLETELY FUCKED ON ACCURACY.

So in conclusion: Medieval Europe had more People of Color than potatoes. This is a well-documented, easily provable fact. And guess who built the Alhambra, kids?

A man by the name of Mohammed I ibn Nasr. 

Shout out to everyone posting about the other “New World” foodstuffs that didn’t exist. I had the dust up over W3 specifically in my head. And could only remember/verify potatoes in that. Didn’t want to say something INACCURATE.

But yeah if your Medieval Fantasy game has potatoes, corn, tomatoes, chocolate, etc. and a stunning lack of people of color? It’s wrong.] 

If you read further down the thread, other people have added other things in whitewashed medieval video games that didn’t really exist in Europe during that time.