#Toshiro also gets this as I've mentioned. he's not a misogynist you weirdos are just racist
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Because I've been thinking about the fandom tendency to paint characters of color as conservative versus their white counterparts, who are usually valorized as progressives, I'm thinking about the way fandom often talks about Kabru (calling him a cop, saying he's Lawful Good/Evil, saying he'd be an econ or business major or tech bro in AUs, I heard through the grapevine they're calling him classist on tiktok) and absolutely refusing to see his actions- of repeatedly sabotaging an imperial force's military operations for the good of oppressed peoples- as radical.
Kabru was raised by a poor single mother in an economically disenfranchised region, then rejected a life of luxury in the imperial sphere. He explicitly aligns himself with the exploited population (short-lived races) he is a part of. He wouldn't be a fucking investment banker, in any AU he's the most likely character to be an activist. I can't scroll for three posts without seeing Chilchuck hailed as a girldad working class hero (and I'm not saying that's not deserved!) but there is barely any thought given to what it means for the brown guy to care so much about fighting against the takeover of a first-world power.
#dungeonposting#Toshiro also gets this as I've mentioned. he's not a misogynist you weirdos are just racist#Toshiro WOULD be a business major or something like it but only because his dad made him!#inside he would want to study arts or natural sciences!#thinking about how no one in the fandom holds Laios being a solider against him (rightly!)#but if Kabru had also joined the army and then quit- come on just think about what the fan perception would be#see also: the absolute uproar that calling Marcille 'a little conservative about gender' caused#even though it's just true!
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