Yeah, I guess. But the fact that it doesn't even occur to anyone to put you(*) there feels a bit like...erasure.
To me it's really just a case of people writing fantasy and borrowing medieval stuff from it because of the romance of it all, so of course they aren't going to write about some random oppressed minority group that was around at the time. I am Jewish, and it's never occurred to me in the slightest that anyone would purposely put a group into their story that's analogous unless they're specifically referencing actual medieval Europe. I should probably note that I don't read into things and I strongly dislike it when other people read into things what I feel is too much, and this is part of that. Calling it erasure sounds like a huge overreaction to me, honestly. And I don't think I've ever read a history book in my life, but my knowledge of the past isn't informed by swords and sorcery.
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To me it's really just a case of people writing fantasy and borrowing medieval stuff from it because of the romance of it all, so of course they aren't going to write about some random oppressed minority group that was around at the time. I am Jewish, and it's never occurred to me in the slightest that anyone would purposely put a group into their story that's analogous unless they're specifically referencing actual medieval Europe. I should probably note that I don't read into things and I strongly dislike it when other people read into things what I feel is too much, and this is part of that. Calling it erasure sounds like a huge overreaction to me, honestly. And I don't think I've ever read a history book in my life, but my knowledge of the past isn't informed by swords and sorcery.