#anti white washing

[stylesmilky]

What the fuck reylos. Our Miguel is right here:

[sprnklersplashes]

Israel's propaganda machine has turned brown people into the epitome of antisemitism and if you don't find this incredibly insidious you're not paying attention

[dumbassalex]

So i think i realised one of the big issues i have witu MCUs Thunderbolts trailer and roster.

Aside from the obvious of a zionist, Florence Pugh, being in the cast, but that's true of every current MCU project (Russos, Bernthal, Plaza, Shawn Levy and that's only from the top of my head when it comes to the recent stuff, because there's more).

It looks dull as fuck, especialy their costumes, Yelena and Bucky i can understand, same as US Agent even if i'd preffer a bit more of a vibrant red. But Red Guardian, aside from the awful design, looks much duller than he did before.

Also why is Ghost in full black and has none of her design elements?!

Like look at the potential she has and how badass she could look and how she could pop off the screen! Instead she's wearing a full black costume with a weird coat and no mask.

But the worst offender is Taskmaster, what the fuck did you do to her design?! Why is she in dull black?! Where's the blue, the orange, the white accents, the badass skull?!

First you take away Taskmasters personality to turn her into Dark Maul from Phantom Menace and now you take away his drip to make her look boring?! BRUH. We could have had such a fun roster of badass looking chaeacters and instead we have 3 Captain Americas, two assassins and a dull Taskmaster...

[punkeropercyjackson]

Not to be mean but if you throw pick me allegations at Piper yet ship Percy with Luke and the gods out of projecting onto 'him',it's time to look within

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Wandavision is unintencionally a terrifying story about how cishet middle class white woman can get away with almost anything with just a slap in the wrist and still feel like a victim.

[janhetjoch]

I hate when companies make a big deal about being "Women-owned", "LGBT-owned", "Black-owned", etc. I don't care if a member of an oppressed group is oppressing their workers. The only time "X-owned" is gonna make me like your company is if it's worker-owned.

[helaenasaegon]

I'm so sick of the white-washing of characters on HOTD.

Aemond.

Daemon (especially with B&C).

Alicent's entire fucking character and story.

Let these characters the awful people they are, ffs!

(Meanwhile, they make Aegon drunkenly rape a girl and do everything they did to Viserys... all to make Alicent look better or sympathetic. Fuck. Off.)

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[illicithurricane]

I am here to say what I want, not to argue with your sick propaganda.

Anti-woke, pro-life, zero jabs. Proud Millennial. Ravenclaw. #IStandwithJKRowling I'm a WOMAN: an adult female human being, XX chromosomes. You can call me "pick me" if you want but I am already "picked" so... Trying to be a good wife for my Chinese man since 2014. Born and raised in Italy so stfu I dont subscribe to 'Murican madness -but also TRUMP2024!-. Racist cause the third-worlders are disgusting and are actively destroying my beautiful Italy and k!ll!ng my countrymen so I want them all deported: legal or illegal doesn't matter anymore. - Only 2 genders cause "gender" is a synonym of sex so if there are only MALE and FEMALE, there are only 2 genders. - "Non-binary" is not real, no matter how big your delusions are. - Facts dont care about your mental illnesses. - Respect is earned, not given. - GenZ/GenA are the weakest, most ignorant, useless generations. - Modern feminists are lazy nazih0es. - Without men (especially white men) we wouldnt have civilization. - Life begins at conception. - Abortion is murder and should be allowed only for REAL r4pe and inc3st cases which are not even the 1% of abortion cases. - NO mandatory jabs. - Womanhood is not a cosplay. - Keep MALES out of all FEMALES spaces. - Groomes/QUEERz: leave kids alone! - The trans"genders" need to GTFO off existence. - Dumb people who cry "cultural appropriation" are the first to appropriate (and destroy) RICHER cultures. - USA is not the greatest country. - Boycott ALL black-washing and race/gender swapping. - Third-World savages MUST ALL BE DEPORTED.

[bottlepiecemuses]

If you want to paint this as just a nothing burger on Palesitne’s side then you are a selectively oblivious pos. 

[fancylala4]

Why are people more mad that they got rid of a sexism plot point in the live action avatar series than the fact they cast a white boy as sokka?

[xx-slug-xx]

White washing and race bending are two separate things. Idk how y’all feel about them, but here’s my thought process on the two

White washing- redesigning a poc fictional character to be white (not albino) because you think it would “look better”. Any time a poc character is redesigned to be white, it’s white washing. White washing is seen as racist due to the fact that doing so blatantly gets rid of poc representation in media. White people have dominated media for a good portion of history, while poc (for the longest time) were rarely depicted in media. When they were depicted, poc characters were mostly depicted as stereotypes. In the modern day, stereotypes are rarely seen in media has drastically increased sense then. However, white people still make up most characters in media (it also depends on what country your in too because most Korean media depicts people who are Korean, for example).

Race bending- redesigning a fictional character (often white, but can rarely be poc) as someone of a different race or ethnic heritage for the purpose of representation. Not necessarily racist, but can be depending on very specific contexts. Representation is not one of those contexts. If a character’s race or ethnicity is integral to the media they are a part of, and the story that is told (example being Black Panther), then it is generally a good idea to not race bend a character. However! Since the movie Snow White has no integral elements that revolve around race or ethnicity, then race bending the character Snow White is fine.

Race bending and white washing does not apply to characters who are not shown in their source to have a specific race (non-humans and characters who’s race is based on viewer/reader interpretation). These types of characters can be depicted as any race and no interpretation is “more canon” than any other. However, it does apply to characters who are shown to be race coded in some way (my go to example would be how Garnet in Steven Universe is heavily black coded). Race bending and white washing DOES apply to race-coded characters.

Also! Race bending and white washing does not apply to systems with fictives who appear to be a different race or ethnicity in head space than they are in canon. Alter race doesn’t exist, as the body is the only thing that dictates race for a system. A system cannot race bend or white wash a fictive, as how an alter appears in head space is not controllable. Fictives are also not fully representative of their source, and comparing them to such is gross.

Also, I am a dumb American and I have no other context for racism in fiction besides what I see in my country lol. So if anyone wants to add to this with different perspectives, then please do! also, feel free to correct any dumb shit I may have said about these topics!

[personal-blog243]

Manufactured racial controversy alert 🙄:

“The Atlantic” used this photo in their article covering a Christian show about the life of Jesus. This photo was taken outdoors on a bright day and some of the actors skin looks a bit lighter because of the bright natural lighting.

However the cast of this show is more racially diverse than this picture above implies. The comments section was full of trolls and bots accusing POC of being white when they are not 🙄.

Here are some more accurate looking cast photos with better lighting that better shows their skin.

The show DID make a point to cast middle eastern and Jewish and Black actors. Many POC can be lighter skinned and it doesn’t change their race or make them “white”. 🙄

I work with several Egyptian people and yes some of them have lighter skin than others and that’s ok! Many people are mixed race and that doesn’t make them fully “white” 🙄 I have also met many lighter skinned Latin Americans and native Americans who would probably look like that under that sunlight.

The characters are supposed to be mostly Jewish and the Jewish community is very diverse and they don’t all have the same skin and that’s ok!

Don’t fall for trolls and bots trying to manufacture outrage and false divisions and controversy. Also don’t call people “white” when they are not!

Yes, racism and white washing are still a big problem in the television industry! Yes, racism is still a problem in the American evangelical church and in many Christian communities throughout history! I absolutely agree that many depictions of Jesus have been a bit “white washed”. I’m NOT here to excuse racism!

I just don’t think that applies to this show in particular in my opinion. This is one of the few portrayals of Jesus that isn’t white washed and some people can’t appreciate that because they are falling for fake outrage because of a bad picture.

It’s taking a LOT of self control for me to not feed the trolls and get into a comment section argument right now in this Atlantic article. 🙄

Imagine looking these Arabic and Semitic men in the face and saying “you are white because you sat in bright sunlight once”. 🙄

[defiantart]

[reasoningdaily]

On a recent episode of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, Dominican-Puerto Rican reality TV star Erica Mena screamed “You monkey, you blue monkey” to Jamaican dancehall singer, songwriter, and actor Spice. The animalized anti-Black slur never seems too far from the lips of racially ambiguous, mestiza, mixed-race, and other non-Black Latinas who find success ironically because of Black women. Many people of alleged color use their proximity to Blackness as a ruse to gain success while harboring anti-Black values. 

This isn’t the first time we have seen non-Black Latinas, who may claim Afro-Latinidad at convenience, call dark-skinned unambiguously Black women an anti-Black slur in a public forum. It’s a signature and age-old move. In 2015, Mena herself reportedly called club promoters “Black monkeys” after not showing up to a scheduled nightclub appearance. Similarly, in 2019, self-professed Afro-Latina Evelyn Lozada did something similar to her Basketball Wives castmate, athlete Ogom “OG” Chijindu, using a monkey GIF to describe her on Instagram and repeatedly referring negatively to her looks.

In many of these public displays of anti-Blackness, the conflict is centered on a Black man “picking” the unambiguously Black woman over the so-called “exotic” non-Black woman. These are common tactics that I and many other unambiguous Black women have experienced at the hands of non-Black Latinas, including mestizas and light-skinned, racially ambiguous, self-proclaimed Afro-Latinas. And many of these non-Black Latinas use the categorization of Afrolatinidad as a get-out-of-jail card when they co-opt Blackness.

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"Many people of alleged color use their proximity to Blackness as a ruse to gain success while fostering anti-Black values. "

dash harris

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In 2019,Love and Hip Hop cast member Cyn Santana appeared on Angela Yee's Lip Service podcast controversially saying she prefers Black men and Black men prefer Latina women. “Y’all can keep the Puerto Rican men. I’m good,” she said, assuming she was referring to non-Black Puerto Rican men. She added: “I do Black guys all day. Black men cater to us Spanish [sic: Latina] girls especially.” When Yee suggested she would “get in trouble with the Black girls,” Santana, a mestiza of mixed Dominican and Salvadoran descent, said, “I didn’t mean it like that, but Black girls gonna take it personal and be like, uh-uh,” inserting just enough mockery to ensure the audience that her worldview is steeped in anti-Black tropes. 

Even more to that point of wide-spread misogynoir stereotyping, Santana later apologized on the talk show The Real, saying she “irresponsibly repeated something that I heard my entire life.” I believe her. I've long seen and heard this messaging in Latine communities. The truth Santana pointed to cannot be glossed over. These women date and procreate with Black men and, in turn, raise Black children, as Mena is doing, and I wonder how they treat those children through their lens of depreciating Blackness. One way is by treating them as a shield to claim they are not anti-Black.

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"In many of these public displays of anti-Blackness, the conflict is centered on a Black man “picking” the unambiguously Black woman over the so-called “exotic” non-Black woman."

dash harris

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This is tied to the misogynoir phenomena of Black men who put non-Black women on pedestals, prizing, pursuing, and “preferring” non-Black Latinas and white women and even defending them when they do dehumanize Black women in public media forums. This “preference” cannot be divorced from its anti-Black power dynamics and its cishetero white-centering patriarchy that Black men, among people in general, have been indoctrinated under and in turn perpetuate and harm Black women with. Black women seem to be where their targets intersect and lock in as their punching bag. 

Mena’s chagrin, and subsequent table-flipping that caused the melee, was because Safaree, a rapper and Mena’s ex-husband and father to her children, “chose” to care more about a woman who indeed is not his wife nor his children’s mother. But what really got Mena to reveal herself was that it was a dark-skinned Black woman, someone who in her eyes was undeserving of the adoration and worship she, a non-Black woman, is entitled to, so she had been taught. This subverted social order infraction could not go by Mena without a slur to bring Black women back to the intended subalterned place. She wanted the guarantee of preference that she was promised.

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"Non-Black women like her have been promised their whole lives that they deserve love and respect, withheld from Black women and over Black women in favor of women who look like her."

dash harris

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It is a privileged position where Mena is most comfortable because she believes in the zero-sum game of anti-Black hierarchy. This hierarchy keeps her lights on. Mena’s social currency rides in her non-Blackness and her proximity to whiteness relative to Black women. Non-Black women like her have been promised their whole lives that they deserve love and respect, withheld from Black women and over Black women in favor of women who look like her. She clamors for and is enabled by the male gaze and, furthermore, is emboldened and protected by Black men who seek refuge from their own internalized anti-Blackness in the arms of women “with less baggage and attitude” than “the Black girls.” But, as the routine racialized aggressions these women create show, even this is a myth. Together, the bond of Black men who “prefer” non-Black women and non-Black women who revel this preference replicates white pathology and notions that Black women should remain subjugated under them both. 

So many non-Black Latinas, including mestizas, mixed-race, and racially ambiguous women, have launched and sustained their careers from Black media and specifically because of Black women, like Mona Scott-Young, the creator of the Love and Hip-Hop franchise, and Shaunie O’Neal, creator of Basketball Wives. Black media gives them access into Black spaces by their “POC” proximity for them to inevitably expose their anti-Blackness, because you can only hide your ideologies for so long. Now many are calling for Mena to finally be fired from the TV series. 

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"Unambiguously Black women, whether Latina or not, are racialized as Black wherever we go and do not have the escape-hatch of racial ambiguity that other non-Black Afro-Latinas do."

dash harris

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Recently, reality TV star Joseline Hernandez called out her College Hill classmate Amber Rose for building her career from Black media but “catering to white people.” Hernandez, who is of Puerto Rican descent, identifies as a Black woman and not Afro-Latina, a distinction that seems to be even more necessary with each passing day. Unambiguously Black women, whether Latina or not, are racialized as Black wherever we go and do not have the escape-hatch of racial ambiguity that other non-Black Afro-Latinas do. 

Hemispherically, Black women are the butts of “jokes” for non-Black, mixed-race, bi-racial, and racially ambiguous women. In 2016, Geisha Montes de Oca (who was 2008's Miss World Dominican Republic) mocked Black Dominican singer Amara La Negra on a popular variety show by wearing an Afro wig, butt pads, and blackface. In 2013, Black Brazilian actor Nayara Justino was dethroned from her title of Miss Globaleza carnival queen in favor of a light-skinned bi-racial woman after public outcry of Justino being “too Black.” She was also subjected to violent anti-Black attacks online that negatively impacted her health.

These viral reality TV moments unveil how anti-Blackness and misogyny are like a rite of passage for many non-Black Latinas. And these are only the recorded examples. As Santana noted on The Real, oftentimes, these are the messages non-Black Latinas were raised with and didn’t question or resist because they benefited from them. She noted that when she made her own viral anti-Black comments she was in her early 20s and that now, “27 with a son,” she knows better. But does age and motherhood disentangle anti-Blackness from someone’s core? It does not. Mena and Lozado are proof-positive it does not, because it takes a process of birthing yourself anew to address and eradicate this structural ill.

[monte-charlo]

That gq cover is really making sure we realise max is White™ huh?