#just. how do you fuck up an allegory so badly. i think about the fang I want to carve my eyeballs out with rusty scissors

[copaganda-clobberfest]

So so so glad White Fang is already included because swear to god the number of racists in the fndm that see absolutely nothing wrong with "Rooster Teeth created a fantasy race of Animal people who all act like Animals and get treated like Animals by their human love interests and they've been an enslaved race until very recently and one of them was literally physically branded as the property of the White Germanic Multibillionaire Princess Protagonist, and humanity still discriminates against them and treats them like animals so they started to engage in disruptive protest like theft and property damage against abusive racist corporations, and so then they DESTROY AN ENTIRE FUCKING NATION AS VICIOUS VIOLENT EVIL TERRORISTS WHO WEAR MONSTER MASKS AND THE MAIN ONE (the one physically branded as the property of one of the protagonists) IS A LITERAL HATE SINK TURNED INTO AN ABUSIVE STALKING MURDEROUS INCEL WHO CARES MORE ABOUT HURTING THE OTHER UWU PROTAGONISTS THAN ABOUT HIS OWN PEOPLE WHO HE MURDERS BECAUSE THAT'S JUST WHAT REBELS AND FREEDOM FIGHTERS DO I GUESS by the way some of the writers and voice actors for the series literally said that they based the Faunus on black people and based the White Fang on the Black Panthers"

I can't post images on Anon and don't want to send this on main, but I have a screenshot of a note that, for several months, was listed in the 'Trivia' section of Adam Taurus's page on the Villains Wiki, which said "Adam's goals reflect that of certain real life groups in America in the 2010's, that claim to want equality when in fact they want control" iirc I don't remember word for word, point is, it was very obviously claiming that pro-racial justice groups are trying to take over through terrorism "just like the White Fang"

And I once received a long barrage of anonymous asks from somebody yelling at me that the White Fang arc wasn't at all racist, it was ACKSHULLY a "brave" and "Well written" story the Heroes at Rooster Teeth were telling, admitting to the "Unpopular Truth" that the Black Panthers and BLM were "violent reverse-racist terrorist groups" and he literally sent me like twenty asks vomiting genuine qanon shit into my inbox all about how evil the Black Panthers and BLM are and how the Noble Brave Heroic Rooster Teeth was "speaking truth the rabid SJW's don't want to hear" and "admitting things the Left doesn't want anyone to know" and they were PROUD OF ROOSTER TEETH FOR DOING IT

Meanwhile I *constantly* see people of color in the fndm get shut down, silenced, invalidated, talked over, smeared, harassed, lied about - all because they criticized the racist writing in rwby and particularly the White Fang. Whole ass white Karens will literally shut people of color down and "explain" to them how the White Fang arc couldn't POSSIBLY be racist because *it's not as if the whole story was made up by non-black writers who have histories of racism one of whom literally posted the N-Word on Twitter in fucking 2016 when the show was literally airing it's third season or anything....* /sarcasm Miles Luna did in fact post the N-Word on Twitter as a 26 year old adult in 2016 when RWBY was in it's third season.

And he did once refer to himself as a "White Guy" who didn't know shit about racism

And he and ALL his Rooster Teeth buddies have twenty years of video evidence of Rooster Teeth's content in which they're ALL fucking racist (the vast majority of RWBY's controlling creative team being comprised of Rooster Teeth management and "talent" and therefore having been prominent on-screen members of the team while they all have a grand old racist time togehter)

So yeah the White Fang arc is mind-staggeringly racist ON PAPER, two hundred times worse to watch it play out in execution, written by an openly racist asshole and produce by his Buddies who run an openly racist studio, and adored everywhere by unabashedly racist fans who literally apply the extreme copaganda found in the show to the real life people groups the writers based the White Fang and Faunus on.

It's sick to say the least

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[princessknightt]

Hello, I want to begin by just saying; thank you for criticizing how RWBY has handled the racism allegory. It has been something which both depresses and alienates me for a long time but everywhere I had looked previously the fandom seemed absolutely unwilling to actually turn any sort of critical self-reflection on it. I really, REALLY don't like how in the racism analogy the only consistent antagonist force so far has ONLY been from the oppressed minority, with no consistent human extremist g-

unabashedlyradcolor said:February 16th 2019, 3:42:21 pm · 21 hours ago-roup acting as a contrast to the White Fang through 6 volumes! It feels incredibly disheartening to me, even more so when characters like Cardin and Cordovin who DO express and exhibit explicitly racist sentiments against Faunus are cast as 'redeemable' and 'not so bad' by the main cast, never treated as 'evil' antagonists. 

Yeah I totally feel you, it’s why I made the post in the first place. When I consume any media, I don’t excuse it of anything it’s done badly. Like, I’m honestly extremely critical of RWBY, but I do keep most of my criticisms off of my Tumblr. I feel like RWBY’s racism allegory was handled extremely, extremely badly, and I feel like people don’t really question it as much. And it’s like, dude? The White Fang were clearly an attempt at making a Black Panther group, but like, the Black Panther that people thought they were and not the actual activism group they actually were. I do think they tried to fix it in Volume 5 and 6, but it’s impossible to retcon something like that.

Like, they made the White Fang go down the wrong path through the Adam arc, and basically pushed all the blame onto him making it into a much more extremist group. Which was a good thing I think, especially since they gave us Sienna Khan who I think fit the Malcolm X allegory more, though she died really quickly. But they destroyed the White Fang via Adam to tie that part up quickly because the writers knew they were doing a shit job at writing the race allegory. I can at least appreciate that, but that doesn’t excuse how much they fucked up with making the race allegory a race of half human, half animal people.

I do think they still have a chance of redeeming themselves if they write the actual racial discrimination part well during the Atlas chapters, but the White Fang was just a huge fuck-up on their part. Hopefully Miles and Kerry consult POC on what to write for the Atlas chapter, at least for the racism parts, because white people aren’t exactly great at writing POC struggles. And I do want to give them a chance to redeem themselves because they have been trying to fix their mistakes, and they do do well with writing female characters. They’ve also been very respectful about their LGBT rep, and have said they didn’t make the pilot guy gay because he died and they didn’t want to do a bury your gays trope. So I think they’re getting better, and they’ve shown they’re getting better, so I hope they continue to do so.

This doesn’t mean I won’t still criticize the show anymore or anything, it just means I’m giving them the chance to prove me wrong.