I ' m not crying . <| sep |> Sure you haven ' t just got older ? <| sep |> Yes , and no . I cannot know what it is like to be another person , or for that matter a woman . However , I do know what it is like to be a fellow minority . 1 Please establish how I am wrong beyond the informed bias of the audience to supplant Meggy ' s assertion . 2 But this show doesn ' t treat the subject of racism , nor has it established itself in a manner to do so , beyond the informed consent of its audience . All we know of Aiden and Asher is that they ' re both wealthy . That ' s it . What does that have to do with addressing the subject of white privilegeover privilege . Caleb Hapstall and Aiden ' s mother didn ' t seem to think much in the way of Michaela when they embarassed her over being poor . The subject of white privilegeover privilege doesn ' t pertain to an individual person ' s affluency , but rather pertains to more systemic issues within race relations that grants a given group an advantage that is absent from the other via institutional means . And again , if you read what I initially wrote , I acknowledged the presence of racism both implicitly and explicitly from personal experience , that does not mean that I go about citing things in an imprecise manner . It ' s disservice towards reconciliation between people to do so . Please establish how I am wrong . Demonstrate how the show has established the presence of racism beyond the informed consent of its audience . Correlation does not amount to causation . One has to first establish the argument that a given character was killed off because they are black . Believe me , I most definitely understand the complexities and nuances present with media portrayals of black characters having a great deal of associated historical baggage . It ' s not that a black character can ' t be killed off , butrather questions of whether the expendability of their life waspremised on their accidental quality of being black . I shy away from conflating LGBT and minority issues , because they ' re two very distinct issues . The former is a phenomenological issue that is by no means ontological in nature , whereas being black is both an accidental quality and a phenomenological issue . The accidental quality informing the latter experience . Homosexuality on the other hand has nothing to do with an accidental quality , but rather and experience which is at times expressed through physical acts . Beyond the expression of the act , the orientation itself does not quite inform all spheres of one ' s life . Men and women are ontologically distinct , each person , male or female has different accidental qualities which inform their experience . So for instance , Connor can come off being an arrogant prick , but it ' s not his homosexuality that makes him so arrogant . Connor is arrogant for a host of reasons . Mind you this doesn ' t make him arrogant at his core , it ' s just part of how he is for whatever reason . For whatever reason Connor and Oliver are safe , because their sexual orientation trumps the purpose they serve plotwise . Asher or Laurel could have more depth but are expendable because they don ' t serve the end of media representation meant to normalize sexual activity that some members of the audience may object to . It ' s one thing for Connor to be gay , it ' s another thing to be so graphic and sexual content of the sort amongst heterosexuals in media deserves its fair share of critique for how graphic its become , because reasons .