Yep. Even the ugliest joke of the AVPM trilogy, the Cho Chang joke, was a somewhat well-intentioned attempt by its then-kind-of-edgelordy white creators to poke fun at the orientalist undertones Rowling baked into the source characterhttps://twitter.com/fiddlersgreen92/status/1312896079264993281 …
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The problem is what Lytle pointed out, that this is a full length musical, and the way they chose to do it, *after* this joke is over, Devin-Lytle-as-Cho continues to be a main character and Sango-Tajima-as-Lavender gets demoted to an extra
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And that is reflecting something genuinely problematic tbh, that the Starkid crew was pretty damn white (Darren Criss being hapa notwithstanding) and Devin Lytle was more in their inner circle than Sango Tajima was so Sango got the bit part
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