#brownwash

[xclowniex]

Israel pink washing this, israel brown washing that,

Okay but have you considered that you might be reverse colour washing Israel?

Random Jews and Israeli's online speaking about their queer experiences is not pink washing. Pink washing cannot be done at the indivdual level. Claiming that queer Jews and Israeli's are pink washing is reverse pink washing.

Calling all jews white or Israel a "white" state is reverse brown washing. Jews and Israeli's of colour exist. And we deserve to be more than an argument you keep in your bag.

Lying about Israel's emmissions is reverse green washing. Example;

Israel has emmited 281,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent within the first 2 months of the war. Globally each year, over 35 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide equivalent gets emitted. Assuming they meant within 2 months as well and not a whole year, taking the 2019 figure of 37.04 billion metric tons, two months of global emissons are 6.173 billion tons.

Israel hasn't even reached the billions. Israel's emissions from the first two months of war is 0.0045 of global emissions within 2 months.

Its not even one percent.

[xcziel]

actually, speaking of books but not in the notes, i was in the back looking at tuesday sos releases and saw that r. f. kuang's (babel, the poppy war) new novel, yellowface, is coming out on the 16th

and i am super curious to see what like the cnovel and kdrama and sea diaspora etc etc readers in my fandoms will think of it

interested to see xiranjayzhao's take especially

[purefake]

white mdzs fanartists will draw the most racist colorist character designs literally whitewashing AND brownfacing cql actors n then get 10k notes w all the comments going omg these r so gorgeous peak character design op 😍 i hope we all explode tbh

[caripr94]

There is something wrong with it if the Latina actress's skin isn't as white as snow, like her name is supposed to indicate!

"Lips red as the rose, hair dark as ebony, skin white as snow."

The Evil Queen could be played by anybody, but as for Snow White herself, well, it's in the name that her skin be as white as snow! Even Kristen Stewart got that right in that mediocre film, Snow White and the Huntsman.

I Hate How She Talks About Snow White

"People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it's like, yeah, it is − because it needed that. It's an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond 'Someday My Prince Will Come. "

Let me tell you a little something's about that "85-year-old cartoon," miss Zegler.

It was the first-ever cel-animated feature-length full-color film. Ever. Ever. EVER. I'm worried that you're not hearing me. This movie was Disney inventing the modern animated film. Spirited Away, Into the Spider-Verse, Tangled, you don't get to have any of these without Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937.)

Speaking of what you wouldn't get without this movie, it includes anime as a genre. Not just in technique (because again, nobody animated more than shorts before this movie) but in style and story. Anime, as it is now, wouldn't exist without Osamu Tezuka, "The God of Manga," who wouldn't have pioneered anime storytelling in the 1940s without having watched and learned from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the 1930s. No "weeb" culture, no Princess Mononoke, no DragonBall Z, no My Hero Academia, no Demonslayer, and no Naruto without this "85-year-old cartoon."

It was praised, not just for its technical marvels, not just for its synchronized craft of sound and action, but primarily and enduringly because people felt like the characters were real. They felt more like they were watching something true to life than they did watching silent, live-action films with real actors and actresses. They couldn't believe that an animated character could make kids wet their pants as she flees, frightened, through the forest, or grown adults cry with grieving Dwarves. Consistently.

Walt Disney Studios was built on this movie. No no; you're not understanding me. Literally, the studio in Burbank, out of which has come legends of this craft of animated filmmaking, was literally built on the incredible, odds-defying, record-breaking profits of just Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, specifically.

Speaking of record-breaking profits, this movie is the highest-grossing animated film in history. Still. TO THIS DAY. And it was made during the Great Depression.

In fact, it made four times as much money than any other film, in any other genre, released during that time period. It was actually THE highest-grossing film of all time, in any genre, until nothing less than Gone With the Wind, herself, came along to take the throne.

It was the first-ever animated movie to be selected for the National Film Registry. Actually, it was one of the first movies, period, to ever go into the registry at all. You know what else is in the NFR? The original West Side Story, the remake of which is responsible for Rachel Ziegler's widespread fame.

Walt Disney sacrificed for this movie to be invented. Literally, he took out a mortgage on his house and screened the movie to banks for loans to finish paying for it, because everyone from the media to his own wife and brother told him he was crazy to make this movie. And you want to tell me it's just an 85-year-old cartoon that needs the most meaningless of updates, with your tender 8 years in the business?

Speaking of sacrifice, this movie employed over 750 people, and they worked immeasurable hours of overtime, and invented--literally invented--so many new techniques that are still used in filmmaking today, that Walt Disney, in a move that NO OTHER STUDIO IN HOLLYWOOD was doing in the 30's, put this in the opening credits: "My sincere appreciation to the members of my staff whose loyalty and creative endeavor made possible this production." Not the end credits, like movies love to do today as a virtue-signal. The opening credits.

It's legacy endures. Your little "85-year-old cartoon" sold more than 1 million DVD copies upon re-release. Just on its first day. The Beatles quoted Snow White in one of their songs. Legacy directors call it "the greatest film ever made." Everything from Rolling Stones to the American Film Institute call this move one of the most influential masterpieces of our culture. This movie doesn't need anything from anybody. This movie is a cultural juggernaut for America. It's a staple in the art of filmmaking--and art, in general. It is the foundation of the Walt Disney Company, of modern children's media in the West, and of modern adaptations of classical fairy tales in the West. When you think only in the base, low, mean terms of "race" and "progressivism" you start taking things that are actually worlds-away from being in your league to judge, and you relegate them to silly ignorant phrases like "85-year-old cartoon" to explain why what you're doing is somehow better.

Sit down and be humble. Who the heck are you?

[thecommunalfoolboy]

FUCK YOU GUYS I LOVE BLACKWASHING/BROWNWASHING seeing my favorite white characters as poc is DELIGHTFUL and I want MORE OF IT

[polycharismas]

accidentally brownwashed mafuyu and ena but . Truly . What is the problem with that .

[charcutieri]

SJWs: Racism is bad! Stop generalizing entire groups of people!

Also SJWs: Indigenous white people don't exist! If you belong to an oppressed ethnic minority or an indigenous group, then you're automatically a pee-oh-cee! Oh and who gives a sh1t about the fact that whether you're white or not has nothing to do with your minority status, because acknowledging that fact would destroy the narrative that all white people are privileged and face no oppression!

I just rememberd that the creators of Frozen once confirmed Hans as Sami and people were outraged that they whitewashed him,,, like they claimed he should have had dark skin and hair,,,, do they know Sami people live in northern Europe??? Like in northern Scandinavia??? Do they automatically make the connection that minority=poc or wtf was that???

Yep, their definition of white and pee-o-sea changes with every situation so they can be right.

Also, JUST IMAGINE if the only bad guy of the movie was a POC. Just imagine oh my goddd. They would have cried louder. Just imagine how HARD they would have cried. You never win with them lmao

[butteredfrogs]

why did you brownwash Emily

why, does it offend you anon? no one asked for your opinion, thank you!

[edwardseymour]

good news young people of colour pursuing acting!! work opportunities abound!! not in original media emphasising your history as equally rich and worthwhile as that of white people, of course — but as brownwashed white people, centering white stories and white history!! now you too can be a part of upholding the cultural glorification of the very institutions that destroyed your culture and commodified your very bodies!! all while your employment serves to diminish the very real institutional racism you continue to face!! how wonderful to carry on such a proud tradition!!

[just-antithings]

incredibly specific anti thing: i follow a fictional series where a clan of people were persecuted and eventually massacred. most of them are east asian (light skin, black hair). antis don't realize how incredibly racist it is to intentionally brownwash them on that premise. one of them literally said "they're oppressed, so they must be brown."

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[itstimewehavesomesoliddick]

@puertohurraco brownwashed me as a latinx tagged me for my lock screen, last song, last picture taken (Toffee being comfy), and last picture saved.

I'm going to tag @allosauroid @darasuum @nutsacktorturer @fluxion-fluent and @bigmann-mclargehuge

[transmasc-malleus]

either my twitter algorithm is cooked or someone im following is liking and engaging with "brownwashing makes me mad so i'm gonna whitewash a character of color" type posts

[khalidistan]

claudes from 2020 that I drew for fire emblem ramadan, the event I organize yearly on twitter. I ended up making a side blog here too to continue running the event in the future, in case twitter truly dies.

fun fact, ingrid's voice actress liked my tweet with the first illustration. that post also had one of my brownwash lysitheas in it too. big win / reparations for brown people /j

[ani-soup]

The New Velma Series Has Me Going Jinkies!

When the new animated series Velma launched a few weeks ago, it did something that no other show in the history of entertainment has done: unite everyone on the internet in hatred of it. For the first time, people on both sides of the political aisle expressed their disappointment of the new Scooby-Doo spin-off, which premiered on HBO Max on January 12 in the year of Our Lord 2023. But why is it so?

Well, for starters, it could have something to do with the fact that the teaser trailer, which outright mocked fans for wanting the show to stay true to the source material. Because attacking the people who consume your product always ends well (am I right, G4TV?).

It could also have to do with the fact that for this “incarnation” of Scooby Doo, the gang’s characters  have all been skewered and butchered and tossed to the wayside. For example,  Daphne Blake, who was the team mom in previous incarnations, is now a vapid high school bully not unlike the type you would see in Mean Girls. This mishandling of such a popular character was such that her OG voice actress, Grey DeLisle, actually made fun of the show using her character’s catchphrase.

Grey DeLisle on Twitter: "JEEPERS!!! #velmadinkley https://t.co/SaPva18G2u" / Twitter

The butchering doesn’t stop there. Fred, who was commonly depicted as the smart, charismatic leader who was obsessed with traps, is now a rude, spoiled, privileged manchild who is commonly the butt of other people’s jokes. At one point, Velma remarks that Fred is unable to feed himself during a court hearing, and cue a scene where Fred is trying (and failing miserably) to do so, much to the amusement of everyone in the court. He is also something of a misogynist, at point claiming that he can't remember Velma's name because he blatantly thinks that she's unattractive.  This version of Shaggy, now named Norville, meanwhile, is now a beta male who is trying (and failing) to win Velma’s affection and has none of the original counterpart’s charm or cowardice (though his love of snacks remains). I’m fully willing to bet that Norville is not gonna last a minute against Ultra Instinct Shaggy. One common criticism of the new series is that there is virtually no Scooby Doo in this show, despite being a spin-off of the Scooby Doo property.  Well, considering how his human companions have been dragged through the mud, this is probably the best thing to our beloved Great Dane.

Speaking of Velma, I’ve saved the worst for last. From the minute it was announced that she would be brownwashed and voiced by Mindy Kaling, I instantly knew not to expect the best from the franchise. Mindy Kaling is one of those unfunny comedians who relies too much on shock humor, not to mention she’s a raging liberal SJW. The last bit is important because she’s what is commonly referred to as an NPC. Her response to the news that people were not on board with the new South Asian Velma was that “tHeY’rE jUsT rAcIsT!” (Ms. Kaling, I feel the need to inform you that as a fellow South Asian, I also do not like your bastardization of one of my favorite childhood franchises.) Not to mention a clip has recently surfaced of her unashamedly admitting of her giving an improvised kiss to a fellow actor and threatening to have him fired if he told anyone about this. What’s even more disturbing is that the audience was laughing the entire time, as if sexual assault to a man is hilarious. (Imagine if the genders were reversed, would it still be funny then?) As for Velma herself, I can’t say that I really like her, considering how she treats everyone in her vicinity. While her previous incarnations were snarky as well, they were a lot less mean-spirited compared to this version, who is clearly unhinged and more judgmental and bitter towards just about anyone. Who wants to be about such a bundle of positivity and joy all the time?

It's no surprise that so many people have come to despise both the show and the creator. It currently sits at a record 1.3/10 on IMDB, and has been dubbed the worst animated show in modern history. (No, seriously!) There are plenty of ways to make an adult reboot of a children’s franchise. This is not one of them. Whether you’re familiar with Scooby or not, this show isn’t for you. You’re better off watching either Scoobynatural or Mystery Incorporated if you want to see a darker, edgier Scooby Doo done properly.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be watching some What’s New Scooby Doo? as a palate cleanser for whatever the hell this mess is.

[rebeleden]

The Whitewashing, Hotepwashing, and Brownwashing of MLK [Patreon Short]

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