#racism is bullshit

[findingyourrootscomic]

Are dragons revered so much because Rayquaza stopped Kyogre and Groudon from fighting? It is part Dragon if I remember, so now that I think about it it makes sense. And if both Kyogre and Groudon were fighting, why are earthens the only ones that are discriminated against while elementals supposedly never did anything wrong?

Rayquaza is basically queen dragon yeah, and her lore of saving Hoenn def plays into dragons being revered. But it mainly has to do with their vastly superior physical and magical strength. The fae are Hoenn's top dogs because they took that position and no one else had the power to really stop them.

The Groudon/Kyogre lore is actually uhhhhhh complicated in FYRverse, and it didn't play out exactly like that. There's gonna be a lore dump at the start of Book 3 (spoilers?), after which I think it'll make more sense exactly how that story plays into earthen subjugation. But keep in mind that earthen racism doesn't actually make sense, there is no logical reason to why earthens are hated besides the reasons elementals make up about it to justify their power-holding. Earthen racism is bullshit.

[lejindaryikiki]

TW! Rant

No but, when people just call our country the most 'horrible' one, when people think that our country is filled with 'predators', when people think that guys in our country are lustful and crap, when crappy media thinks that our country is the most poorest, when it criticize our government's decisions, how our religion taught nothing but to assault, but forget that there are problems within their own country, like how women are assaulted everywhere, how to resolve their 'immigration' problem, how people (irrespective of their nationality) are being more vile!

And yes, I'm talking about crappy topics, like Canada (no hate, tho. I just don't like that prime minister cause he blamed my country without any evidence), Western media (always eager to see the 'bad' side of our country, to earn money), people with ignorance and hatred, r*cist bananas who grew up with a low-standard life.

Not to mention that I was s*xually harassed online by two faggots (far worse than viruses), and yet one of them had to 🤮 because of my nationality. Too bad, I know where they are from.

So much for calling my dad and my male cousins 'predators'.

F*ck Canada and Britain, f*ck that Canadian prime minister, f*ck rasicm and all those racist who have discriminated my religion. I hope they suffer and rot!

P.S: I love people, but some of them just don't deserve my love and respect. You can block me or unfollow me if you want to, but don't insult me if I'm from a country which you don't like. And Western media should focus on their own countries, not on ours. We can handle on our own.

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

[wilwheaton]

What, and I can't stress this enough, the ACTUAL fuck.

[razrogue]

Being subjected to fandom racism and antiblackness near constantly takes its toll on Black fans in fandom. Just dipped my toe back into a new fandom last October and by April (some earlier than that!), many folks I've met through the fandom have already left it because of the bullshit they had to endure for daring to speak up and have a conversation.

If it's not characters being whitewashed or having their defining facial features slimmed down and trimmed or their hair being straightened out then it's the character being left out or replaced entirely or their stories and demeanor co-opted for the nonblack characters. Or OCs created by Black fans being ignored at large or copied damn near exactly by a nonblack fan and suddenly the OC is the greatest thing ever?

When does it stop being "oh I'm just going by what's popular in the fandom" or "they're just boring" or "they're a goody two shoes" or "they're annoying" or "they're mean" or "they're a liar" for folks to realize all of this is just racism and antiblackness in different clothes? And don't get me started on the folks who aren't even subtle about why they feel the way they do because they are certainly in fandoms and they are still supported and uplifted.

It's so gotdamn insidious and folks don't even take a second to think about WHY they react so viscerally to Black characters yet praise and adore and worship THE EXACT SAME THINGS in characters that aren't Black. Apparently it's one of the worst things ever for people to go "damn maybe I need to reconsider my position and why I'm feeling this way" instead of immediately going from 0 to 100 and deflecting and fighting back against valid concerns! People would rather be racist and antiblack when these things are brought to their attention rather than STFU, listen, and go reflect.

[thenonbinarydetective]

Things batfam stans need to leave behind in 2023:

Jason's Lazarus pit rage

Thinking Tim's parents were horribly abusive and hated him

Only caring about Stephanie in terms of her relationship to another person (ex: Tim's bestie/ex/gf or Cass' gf/bestie)

Treating Jason or Stephanie like they're stupid

Feral Demon Child Damian

Permanent sunshine boy Dick Grayson

Any "[blank] was the real violent Robin" discourse

Really just any reducing or sectioning of certain traits to certain batfam members and not allowing other characters to exhibit those same traits (ex: see sunshine Dick Grayson)

But also stealing traits from other characters and projecting them onto someone else (ex: Jason getting Dick's personality in fics. He is not the same type of big brother Dick is canonically)

Purposefully mischaracterizing characters for angst (ex: Dick sent Tim to Arkham, my beloathed. also again see Tim's parents)

Trying really hard to nuclearize the family. They are an unconventional family for many reasons, and that's why they're interesting.

"Alfred solos the batfam"

Making Duke "the normal one" and completely forgetting to give him an actual personality.

Cass using sign language because she can read body language (note: does not apply to YJ Cass who has damaged vocal chords)

Cass being used as a prop for her brothers

Tim being weak, woobified baby

Feel free to add on ~~

Don't send hate over these things because idgaf, they are harmful mischaracterizations, and many are built on total ignorance and often racism, classism, ableism, and sexism.

[foldingfittedsheets]

The professor I TA for asked for things to go in a “pumpkin spice still life”.

Unsure if that meant theme or color but assuming color, I gathered up my plush red panda, a plastic red-brown rock, a toy bison, a leather pouch, some satsumas, and a can of pumpkin.

We set up a fine still life, adding my stuff to his. And one of the students fell in love with my playmobil bison, asking if they could borrow it. I said yes, but only if they could provide collateral. They reached for an earring (after suggesting an organ) and I was like, no no, less valuable collateral!

While they cleaned their brushes I scoped their stuff and asked for their backpack keychain.

For my toy bison I received: a plush toy cheeseburger (the thing I actually asked for), a miniature PS2 copy of Bully, and a tiny vial containing a petrified rat heart that I hadn’t actually seen.

I’m so fucking stoked on the rat heart. If they don’t return my bison I won’t even be too sad.

[gamer2002]

Out: Black people can act civilized like everyone else

In: Peace and quiet is racist

[crimeronan]

another Vital AU hunter-and-camila thought from this morning was a thought of, like. camila very very very gently and carefully explaining that she'd like luz to get a basic physical done by a doctor in the human realm, because luz has not been seen by a human doctor since she was four and is overdue for ten million vaccines and desperately needs bloodwork to check her vitamin and thyroid levels, etc, etc, etc, and hunter is like. visibly freaked out and upset by this. bc he is SO afraid of strangers hurting luz.

anyway. that's all pretty much expected, on account of The Horrors.

what got me in my feelings was the thought of camila telling hunter that she has a lot of the same worries, and that she Knows not all human healers have good intentions, and that she Promises she'll take that into account when finding one for luz. because she does not want luz to get hurt.

hunter, naturally, is like "how.... do you know that....?" and camila is like ay dios mio. HOW do i explain medical racism or the united states..... to a boy.... with no concept of racism or the united states.....

[simply-ivanka]

TRUMP AND RACISM CLAIMS

Trump's commitment to the rights and advancement of African-Americans has been fully Apparent from the policies and priorities of his administration. In addition to passing the largest Criminal Justice Reform in recent history, which mostly benefited black males who had been unfairly sentenced through the Justice system, Trump increased funding form historically black colleges and universities and made the funding permanent so that these schools would no longer have to Lobby Congress every year. Black employment reached a record low like youth employment reached an old time low and wages for black workers were rising at a historic rate. By early 2020 Trump was consistently pulling it over 20% with the black community, a potentially game changing 12-point game from the 2016 election. Democrats are desperate to reclaim these black voters and they are willing to resort to Reckless and unfounded accusations of racism against Trump.

[noirineverysense]

so so crazy how people love talking about how they love to break white male characters and how hurt/comfort can be one of the biggest ao3 categories and then when you say you want that same energy for female characters or characters of colour you get people being like do you want poc to be tortured? Do you want women to die?? It has to be played up obtuseness. Its completely on purpose.

[miraculouslumination]

The audacity to be like "there's a problem with racism in transandrophobia discussions" while also unironically using the term "transandrophobia truther(s)"

[kattythingz]

Day 100000 of wishing people would stop making Ed insult Ling, a Chinese-coded character, by calling him "squinty eyes" because that SHIT'S SO RACIST OH MY GOD GUYS GET A GRIP

[rey-jake-therapist]

Just saw on Twitter "I love The sandman because everyone hates the main character and worships a side character that appears for 0.01% of the show and comics."

First, not "everyone" does that. Some of us have actually media literacy and see the main character as a complex one who deserves empathy, and not as the twirling mustache villain Twitter claims he is.

Second, the side character you worship is a cynical capitalist who shamelessly profited from slavery until another white man told him it was wrong. Hob spent the rest of his life not giving a shit and caring for no one but himself, while the main character you all hate is the one who told your beloved that slavery was wrong and needed to stop...

Someone in the comments claimed they were 'proud' to love Hob Gadling while being 'ashamed' to love Dream.... I mean, I guess enslaving people is really cool and sexy, right? If really "everyone" feels that way, well, I guess that speaks a lot about this fandom indeed.

And the more I read takes like that, the more I hate the guy. I know Hob can't die but can we get a scene where he chokes for almost 5 minutes on a Lego and reflects on his actions while he's struggling to breathe...? That would be a bit more satisfying than the underserved happy ending he gets.

[ummyesisthisjasongrace]

The insinuation that Tommy fans are racist is so wild to me. "You don't like Eddie so that means you're racist" my sibling in christ, first of all, Eddie is my special little character. Don't you dare question my love for him. Second of all that implies that you're only allowed to dislike a character if they're white and cishet because otherwise you're "racist, transphobic, homophobic". It's not like when I dislike a character it's about their personality and not their looks. Since all you can do is make any argument about race, I wonder who's the racist here, hm?

[nicomoon69]

every time I’m forced to see this image bc I have to describe what’s wrong w it to dumb ass ppl a small part of me dies

cw: ugly ass emo whitewashed genshin man