"Although, I would probably have crossed out the line in the script in which 'our' Doctor said rather crushingly, almost sneeringly, to her "I've never been anything like you". Nominally, this was then glossed as being a comment about her shirt, but it did come with the spectre of racist overtones, lurking behind that 'thing' in 'anything'."
Totally didn't get that vibe at all. It was more like she was disgusted at the violence that Doctor!Ruth had displayed and liked to think herself above all that (although we've seen different with earlier incarnations).
It probably was meant as being about the violence (and the shirt!), but what I really meant is that when any line like that is spoken to a black woman, it acquires the potential for additional overtones which wouldn't be there if the character was (say) a white man. In turn, that means if the show is going to avoid going to unfortunate places, it needs script editors who are super-aware of that potential, and query lines which might be mis-read accordingly.
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Totally didn't get that vibe at all. It was more like she was disgusted at the violence that Doctor!Ruth had displayed and liked to think herself above all that (although we've seen different with earlier incarnations).
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