Reverse Racism
If slurs are “just words”, why do the words “you’re a racist” offend you so much?
BOOM.
Yes, inquiring minds want to know……….
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I hope this post weeds out the unbelievers.
I’m not in the camp where ~artistic vision~ and ~creative license~ are the end-all, be-all shield to a writer/artist’s craft and how their work relates to an audience because that’s bullshit. I’m not about protecting artists and writers’ ~delicate creative sensibilities and feelings because if their work sucks, their work sucks, and needs to be improved/critiqued/beta’d/just fucking looked over. This all sounds vague, but allow me to get specific.
I’m talking about when fanwriters and fanartists write and draw every white cis character and their dog, but completely forget about everyone else—people like me, for instance. And when they get called out for that, the delicate artistes flutter their hands in front of their faces and cry out, “I don’t want to fuck up the attempt!” or “I write/draw what I feeeeeel!” or “I have no control over what inspires meee!” Or better still, “That takes a lot of effort and research!”
Haha, oh look more bullshit.
Are you telling me, that you can somehow find it in yourself to empathize/sympathize/identify with elves and mages and fictional aliens and dragons and artificial intelligence constructs, enough to write/draw from their POV, but somehow trying to connect with a character whose melanin content differs from yours is like scaling the Great Wall?
Are you telling me, that you’re willing to spend hours reading your fandom’s wikisite articles, research esoteric topics that are only tangentially related to the plot of your fic in order to lend the story a sense of “realism” and “authenticity,” brainstorm elaborate, extensive worldbuilding headcanons and speculations about a fictional universe, but can’t be bothered to Google “how to write characters of color without fucking it up”?
Are you telling me, that your imagination is just so creative and expansive or that the fandom-universe you’re playing in is so inspiring and new and unique that all you can come up with are stories about white people doing white things with their white friends and white significant others and having white adventures, thus further adding to the abyss of white narratives that countless ~creative artists before you have contributed to, thus making more of the same and being not special at all?
If you’re not telling me any of those above things, then what exactly are you telling me? Because I’d love to know, white fan(girls), I really would. Please explain to me how your utter lack of creativity prevents you from writing/drawing characters of color. Please explain to me how your utter lack of empathy prevents you from writing/drawing characters of color. Please explain to me how your ~artistic license and ~creative vision excuse you from improving your craft and broadening your horizons to include characters whose life experiences differ from yours—which, don’t you know, is one of the whole fucking points of writing fanfiction and drawing fanart anyway.
Nothing? You got nothing for me?
Welcome to white myopia—population: every white fan(girl) ever.
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COLORS of LOVE ❤
Does anyone notice that with the exception of Tiana and Naveen all of them feature women of color with white men?
This really goes back to the fetishization of women of color and the white savior narrative (which is applicable to all of these with perhaps Phobos as a minor exception).
I would really dig for Disney to make a black hero with a white love interest for a change instead of more white men falling in love with ‘exotic’ women.
Pocahontas was a real-life native woman, and John Smith was a real-life white man. Esmeralda was a Romani gypsy and Phoebus a white man in Victor Hugo’s 200-year-old novel. If Atlantis actually existed, it would be in southern Greece, Italy, or Turkey so Kida’s tanned skin makes geographic sense. Nice try, social justice idiots. Disney had absolutely nothing to do with making the women non-white. Stop blaming them over things they had no control over. It’s not racist or sexist or whatever cause celebre you’re into this week. Plus, Pocahontas and Esmeralda both ARE the heroes and both save their men’s lives, so I don’t know what you’re talking about when you say all the heroes are white. This was a lovely post about Disney interracial love, and you social justice asshats had to go and ruin it.
No one ruined anything first off. You can still enjoy that these fictional couples existed. IF we were going for accuracy then John Smith was a pedophile because he was in his 30’s and Pocahontas was like 12. Captain Phoebus didn’t give a shit about Esmeralda in Victor Hugos book. He just wanted to fuck a g***y [Romani] girl. The end of the book he watches her get executed with no remorse. He is one of the villains.
Secondly, Disney chose all these narratives to show. Regardless of source material, “history”, or geography Disney made the decision to show these. Disney also chooses to not show that many Men of Color in the hero position. Who is there really? Shang, Aladin, and Frozone? How many white princesses have been paired with men of color? zero.
Thirdly, the fetishization of Esmeralda is disgusting. All three males in THND fall for the sexy oppressed Romani girl. Even though Quasimodos mother is Romani he isn’t raised that way or aware of it. The rest of the time she’s walking around Paris barefoot, using magic tricks, and literally does a strip show and a pole dance in the first 30 minutes. Not even getting to Pheobos, she is constantly assaulted physically and sexually by Frollo.
Kida and Pocahontas are portrayed as mystical brown women that white travelers find and instantly fall in love with. They’re used to make the white love interests better men whether a leader/king or not actively racist. Which both situations I wouldn’t have a problem with if there were more woc to have their own stories and journeys in Disney fiction. Which there isn’t. Shit Tiana doesn’t really have any growth in Patf only Naveen does. Jasmines is part of Aladdins story.
Theres so much more in these movies that I haven’t even touched on.
Why does having conversations about Race and gender roles make them a social justice blog? If you want to continue to not think about the media you watch then don’t. But don’t go into space where people want to discuss media and representation.
(via disneyforprincesses)
In his first interview since losing the election, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) wouldn’t admit that voters rejected his economic vision and instead chalked up President Obama’s victory to a large turnout of the “urban vote.” “I don’t think we lost it on those budget issues, especially on Medicare, we clearly didn’t lose it on those issues,” Ryan to local station WISC-TV. “I think the surprise was some of the turnout, some of the turnout especially in urban areas, which gave President Obama the big margin to win this race.”
Huh. I wonder what “urban” means?
Well hello, obligatory racial quota!
Cas, have you been there recently?
Racial. Quota……………..wut.
I also guess we’re not calling Lucy Liu Chinese, then………..right.
Sherlock fandom is gunning hard…
And here it comes.
The fact that you automatically assume that mine was a pointless heartless Sherlockian criticism told just out of spite makes me want to bring down the show even if I AM ACTUALLY QUITE ENJOYING THIS PILOT.
What I meant to point out is just the obvious fact that every single police show, from the US or UK or wherever, displays this kind of actificiall racial diversity amongst the team of investigators, which I like to call obligatory racial quota.
It was not a criticism directed specifically towards Elementary. Period.
I know the Elementary fandom is wounded by the tons of hate it recieves in a daily basis, but I might actually be a part of it if I can finish watching the pilot without having to think hours on my comments like if I was walking on some fucking crystal glass.
Thank you.
:/
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So this Gif was posted to reddit yesterday. 8,207 individual people upvoted it. But something that greatly disturbed me also happened. Lots and lots and lots of tears were shed over the “fact” that if the races were reversed then it would be racist.
Uhhh, am I the only one in the world who things it is already racist because it is playing off the very dangerous very racist “Angry Black Woman” trope? This is seriously damaging shit to WoC. It is racist. I can’t believe it was an ad that was actually aired on modern television.
me n nigger(that’s its name) (Taken with GifBoom)
You don’t get to decide what’s not racist.
Never. Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever.
The same way men don’t get to decide what’s not sexist, cis people don’t get to decide what’s transphobic, and straight people don’t get to decide what’s not homophobic.
This is complete bullshit, and a very dangerous idea. What you’re saying here, whether you know it or not, is that only people who are affected by a certain issue are entitled to decide what that word means. It only seems to make sense because you’ve chosen words that are in some ways abstract.
Let’s pick a word that isn’t abstract. Let’s say you’re suffering from cancer. Despite how awful that is, that does’t mean that you get to define what “cancer” means. It doesn’t mean that you’re more in control of your suffering because you want to decide that cancer means something else. It’s complete bullshit.
Cancer means something, no matter how you personally feel about that meaning. And so it is with racism, and homophobia, and so on. It doesn’t matter how a gay person or a straight person “feels” about the definition of homophobia - it means the same thing anyway. If you’re gay and you feel something has happened which you regard as homophobic, you’re probably right, but you might be wrong. We can talk about all that. What we can’t do is assume that you’re always right all the time about homophobia because you’re gay. No one’s always right all the time about anything.
Maybe in an ideal world this would not be true, but that’s just not how language and logic work on the ground. Anyone with the slightest training in linguistics will be able to tell you that.
tl;dr QUESTION EVERYTHING
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