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9 Reasons ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Actually a Terrible Show

5. Several Scenes in the Show Have a Really Offensive ‘White Savior’ Vibe

Hey, how do you liberate an entire population of brown people from the bonds of their evil oppressors? If you ask the showrunners at Game of Thrones, the answer is “Throw a white woman at the problem.” Mother of Dragons, Daenerys’ entire story has devolved into her traveling from slave-ridden city to slave-ridden city freeing the poor, afflicted, and super grateful minorities. It’s a shallow characterization that the show has employed ever since Khal Drogo’s barbaric Dothraki showed up cutting each other and raping anything that moved.

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