Seaspiracy was great — except for all the racism.

There’s a disturbingly distinct type of representation of the Asian and African communities in this racist Netflix documentary

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• A marine scientist’s view on Seaspiracy’s issues by Jean Utzurrum

Perhaps the real conspiracy in Seaspiracy is all the racism.

Seaspiracy is a brand new, conservationist-styled Netflix documentary riding on the titular success of ‘Cowspiracy’.

And there’s no doubting that this film project is conservationist. It does a great job of highlighting the problems that humans place on the ocean; it’s efficient at creating pangs of guilt.

And like any strongly-received ecological film , it is proving controversial — but not for the ideal reasons.

It’s been branded as fake news; people from the global communities noted in the film are finally finding the voice to say that the Seaspiracy narrative is, in fact, racist.

But first: to the manipulation of data.

Seaspiracy is so sensationalist, it…