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What does this phrase mean?

can you give us some context?

In the context of the show, what does "the triads" mean? :-P

Chinese organized crime.

But why is it called "the triads"?

because of three people being the bosses? or three organization that came together to become One Big Crime Organization...

-I'm just guessing, I only watched dd once ... is this a comics related question? or tv?

AYRT

The triads are real world organizations. The name supposedly refers to their early use of triangular imagery.

SA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_%28organized_crime%29

If you're writing a generic international thriller, this is the group of bad guys you can use without sounding racist.

I don't really understand this assertion. While it isn't inherently racist to cast members of Chinese organized crime organizations as your villains, I certainly don't see how it could possibly avoid the appearance of racism in contrast to other groups.

Well, if the alternatives are "the shifty Chinamen" or "the organized crime people who are the same ethnicity as everyone else," (presumably white,) I guess it's less racist? You're admitting that Asians exist with enough power and agency to affect your story, and if they're bad guys, well, at least they're bad guys in their country of origin, too, which you acknowledge by using the term their country of origin uses for them.

I guess? (This is my first time chipping into this thread. I have absolutely no stake in this; I'm just guessing what was meant by the comment you had trouble with.)

I feel like what the person means is that the Triads (like the Yakuza) are at least a legitimate real world gang who engage in terrible things that are indisputably awful and criminal, and who do operate globally. So it's less racist than making up a group like the Ten Rings or the Hand in Marvel or having a generic group of terrorists or gang members who just happen to be cast to be a specific race who are cartoonishly evil.

At least that's how I took it.

I don't think Marvel's Ten Rings or The Hand is terribly racist--hey, they made up "The Maggia," which is just the Mafia with a funny name and Marvel-style tech/magic thrown in, and I haven't heard anyone complain about Marvel discriminating against Italians or Italian Americans. They also have "The President of the United States" with no bearing on whoever's in political power at the time. Marvel does its own weird take on things, so that the story can go in strange Marvelish directions without throwing people out of their willing suspension of disbelief, or the writers having to know much or anything about the real world counterparts. Also, so they can throw in conspiracies and ninjas where they make absolutely no sense.

And then they include real-life celebrities, just to make your brain explode.

AYRT - I'm not saying those groups specifically are racist. I'm just saying that making up a terrorist group or gang who are all one race seems to me to be more racist than referencing a real group. You have to tread lightly when you do it or end up having people call you out, which is why referencing a real group is easier.

Just wanted to clarify.

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