#lightskinned perks privileges & frequent flyer miles

[princessnijireiki]

@blacksentai the crowd was actually eating it up, which I suspect is partly a generational thing, partly a “who has fucking money for wwe raw tickets in ny” thing, and partly a “holy shit, 13 days to wrestlemania & he’s hyping up a match against rollins who’s still ‘out on injury’ aka he’s better now but has PROPS”

it’s an interesting move since mcmahon’s close w. trump iirc and triple h isn’t being played as a heel for it. his act on mic’s just getting trumpier & no one’s saying anything since he was already established as “wealthy asshole who can still square tf up but Earned His Spot,” but I doubt he & stephanie will be as cartoonishly villainous as they’ve been scripted in the past… they’ll just let it be quietly divisive bc tbh no matter where folks fall it’s good for business, and then since he’s not a heel proper there’s plausiable deniability with trump & his fans + for everybody else, it’s just an act. like it’s really really clever— and the small bit where he straight up denied sth that they’d just replayed, like… happened the way it did got a few laughs— but it’s still only ALMOST clever enough to not be annoying.

I don’t have anything for or against him personally just bc tbh I expect racism from old white people, but I was APPALLED to discover old boy’s only like fucking 47yo today, bc white genetics are horrifying. like he’s the same age as j.lo. so yk… he’s not that old but that’s wild.

as for waluigi’s bad dick habits, tho… nah, rollins dropped her, afaik. I don’t keep up with ppl’s lives irl like all of that but google tells me he’s got a new gf & posted pics of them on vacation in mexico last december, and wrestling fans proceeded to do the worst & most, as they always do.

(tbh and this is just my onion but… him being a conditionally white/whitepassing* dude ADOPTED by poc— so white supremacists still fux with u— who are also nonblack poc w/o like SPECIFIC ties to groups the nazis targeted… who is also in pro wrestling** + apparently is v. into angry white boy music… probably left him COMPLETELY WITHOUT any alarm system or ability to recognize that fucking shit, let alone a PERSONALLY driven survival based need for one, re: zahra schreiber.

that’s not an excuse, I just expect some folks to be wasp level ignorant on certain shit, and that can be REALLY fucking ignorant; on top of, like, fuck it, he might’ve known & she was a side piece so bc dude’s a messy ho [which I expect from some folks too tbh, incl. pro athletes & ppl in show business negl] he wasn’t worried abt her morals or w/e.)

* dude’s armenian & the country is literally TOUCHING iran, azerbaijan, turkey, and georgia… idk if they’re legally (census, historically, etc.) considered white in the states, but if you google “are armenians white” the second damn result on the FIRST PAGE is fucking stormfront calling them lightskinned mongrels, so imma guess a Strong No.

also @ google what the fuck.

(update: in 1910 the asiatic exclusion league [@ white ppl: what the FUCK] reported that congress approved a bill classifying armenians, assyrians, and jews as "asiatics" [???] but the "good" kind who were allowed to become naturalized citizens, unlike other asian & middle eastern ethnic groups. this lasted until 1925 when anthropologist franz “had to do it to ‘em” boas, whose work could be summed up as “biological racism is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of & it is my personal life mission to fucking destroy it,” appeared as a witness in court to testify that armenians were not “asiatic turks” [yikes!!!!!!!] but “utterly impossible to classify as not belonging to the white race” & they were re-classified legally as “free white peoples,” so, uh... good for them but also once more with feeling @ white ppl what the WHOLE ENTIRE FUCK.)

** pro wrestling is maaaaad latinx & tbh esp. chicanxs love them some goddamn lucha, but white people somehow don’t know that, which would be almost impressive if it wasn’t so fucking weird.