#and there's also a great post abt this i rbed but brennan going 'you can be chinese coded!' at the end

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@spaghetti-machete adding on in a rb because yeah. GOD yeah you really hit the nail on the head. yes the dropout show bit was amazing and impressive but that wasn't the point of the show. it was something that was used to make a point. points like. how whiteness is seen as the "default". how insidious whitewashing is that it so heavily erases identity and meaning from the lives of poc. the messy contradiction/conflict that comes with wanting to take solace in Proudly Being Your Marginalized Identities vs the fear that you are this nothing person that does not exist outside of them at all. how living in a racist society plays into that insecurity in a myriad of ways. like yeah the show is confusing and trippy—intentionally so—and wrapped in several layers of meta and irony but the main point of it was so HEAVILY steeped in chris' asianness that (to me) it feels very wrong to not bring it up at all when talking about it

no hate to this person but it's so deeply ironic to be praising wandavision (a show with a whitewashed lead) in the same post as praising chris grace as scarlett johansson (a comedy special that not only deeply criticizes whitewashing and the racist structures that allow it to happen, but also in the middle he talks about a producer that watched the show and loved it but also brought up the whitewashing-defense-rhetoric of "anyone should be able to play anyone" when talking about straight actors cast in gay parts)