#blackwashing is not a thing

[shellyswirlz]

Not several random ass people starting to come at me on the hellsite of Twitter because I want Palestine to be free, and because I support "blackwashing" lmao

Blackwashing isn't even a real thing first of all.. That word was most likely created by racist white supremacists. Like it's ok to blackwash is it not? You're bringing more diversity to certain characters.. Whitewashing however is a huge problem 😭

...Like wtf do you mean whitewashing and blackwashing are the same thing no tf they ain't...

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[bixels]

I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

[astroarcane]

Not to continue whining but I already know that people are gonna complain more about the POC edits that will come out (fucking ""blackwashing"") then the blatant racism in the game and then pretend that they're still allies.

"well it's wrong to change any character's skin tone—" maybe focus on the multibillion corporation pandering to racists instead of singular artists making edits of fictional characters.

[cnl0400]

Love not looking at the main tag anymore

[lairofthewyrm]

Hey, can someone please explain the Netflix Cleopatra drama?

I understand the reasons that Egypt is suing Netflix over this, but outside of Egypt, the reaction to this is just really confusing me????

As a white (non-Muslim) person, I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around the idea of “blackwashing”. I live in the US so I’m assuming that has something to do with my perception of the issue?

Here are my questions:

Skin color isn’t exclusive to country??? There were obviously brown Greek people even in ancient Greek, even if it wasn’t a large portion of the population????

Do we concretely know what Cleopatra looked like? I know that there’s art of Cleopatra, but I also know that a lot of that was/is viewed from a white, and male perspective so is this a “the victors write history” situation?

Is the backlash over the casting (and I know it’s not just from Egypt, this is coming from many people and many places) really about skin color or is it about something else? If so, what else?

Like I legit want to know and understand as this situation is so confusing to me? Like, if everything else is accurate, then let the show be????

If anyone is able to give some insight or point to (non-biased) resources I can peruse I’d be extremely grateful! ^^

[cepheusgalaxy]

"Blackwashing" "too-woke headcanons" sure but when it's an aspec character then suddenly it's "LET'S PEOPLE ENJOY FANDOM."

[4kadhd]

remembering when someone on anon referred to a character I drew as black for funsies as a slur i wasnt comfortable with because it was on anon and i had no idea if the person behind it was black and i got attacked for fetishizing black ppl essentially

[bun-monchi]

Just found some wild race wars in YouTube comments about how anime characters being drawn in African american styles is racist and blackwashing.

I dont know what to say or how i feel about it. Is it really wrong to draw a light skinned character black? For instance, black deku?

Is that bad? (Yes or no)

[gerudospiriit]

[I highly doubt the person sending racist hate to my friend is following me, but if you're racist and get all in your feelings over the idea of Link being Black, unfollow me now. That shit don't fucking fly with me and you need to get the fuck out of here.]

[yrdnzz]

why can't u just creature ur own black characters instead of race bending them. isn't it like if u made black characters white/Asian

because... becau- BECAUSE BECAUSEEEE

LOLLLL nah but in all seriousness, i drew this last october to participate in the blacktober prompt. i know sae isn't black of course-- most of the characters from blue lock are asian or european, which is cool !!! but..

if artists can draw shidou with the lightest skin EVER knowing damn well he's tanned and has undoubtedly brown skin, i can reimagine a few blue lock characters as black for an event that is meant to uplift black creators and celebrate blackness in a medium (art, manga, comics, whatever) where we lack proper representation

sae is a character i love soooo much so i drew the art of him as a request on twitter for blacktober. even if he wasnt requested, i still wouldn't have drawn any of the canon black characters like dada silva or agi because i'm just not interested in the black characters kaneshiro writes (aside from loki). all the black characters in blue lock are only there briefly so when there isn't any good, prominent representation of black characters, i'll just draw the ones i like as black.

if you want a more in-depth response on where i stand on the "why is drawing black people as white not ok but drawing white/asian people as black is ok" aka the "blackwashing" debate, read this article. but also if u dont like my black blue lock character art idk sorry (not really) but i'm pretty sure the block button isn't that hard to find so

[linthehero]

boy howdy do i love drawing characters different from how theyre actually supposed to look just for the fun of it, anyways sorry this is just a small low effort drawing i did on vacation but here’s my bobby worst interp

[animationismycomfort]

y’all am I ready for the dumb-sses that’ll appear in my comments once I show my designs and headcanons for my sp characters

[itsmonobun]

fans of fiction whose greatest fear is seeing a character be black has got to be the weirdest fucking shit to me

"it's not realistic" "it doesn't suit the setting" "it's ruining the story"

[cinnabargirl]

I think we can criticise netflix's Cleopatra without falling into nazi dogwhistles

[blurrymango]

DNI lists, morality discourse, identity erasure, skinny, bad representation, personality rewrite.

reblog for a bigger sample size if you feel like it

[sparklerzii]

saw a debate about why some people make elizabeth and charlotte black??

People started saying how it's race bending and how thats bad but uhm

i make charlotte black soooo