#whiteperson

[moodr1ng]

listen i wont say it on the rb bc ik white people is crazy and if i make fun of them TOO much theyll start throwing a fit at me but. it is truly wild what the colonizer mindset does to their brain lol like can you imagine talking about the pronunciation of a word in a different language than yours and not only do you have no idea how its pronounced and youve never been bothered to look it up, but also you assume that no one else has.. like yes yes yaoi is a meme now and its funny etc but also isnt that crazyyyy 😭😭

(also editing bc i just found out ppl r reblogging that comment i made: i know japanese ppl dont typically use the word 'yaoi' to refer to bl. i know yaoi is a slang word and not a "proper" japanese word. its still a japanese word and i dont think either of these points are relevant??)

[shakballoonshack]

Ah yes, Mr. White White person. You know, in any Lovecraft novel he would be the hero in literally every situation and manage to save everyone without even breaking a sweat. Unfortunately this is Ace Attorney and he might not be so lucky

[r1ch-ln4mst3r]

[weaselbeaselpants]

Lindsay Ellis plagiarized a ndn author

This post isn't a callout and it's only my own post because the OP source I just learned it from, @neechees, doesn't allow rbgs at a certain point on that post.

After Hmbomberguy's expose on Illuminaughtii and James Somerton some people are giving a well deserved eye back to the leftube sphere that was kind of schism-d and held under scrutiny in what I feel was, a lot of the time, misinformed hate campaigns in response to genuine criticism; especially towards Lindsay Ellis who up left after she was canceled and hasn't returned to continuous video making publicly even after people have mostly agreed the hatedom directed for her Raya and the Last Dragon takes was stupid and was erasing actual SEA people's discussions of the culture. To hear and see a decent breakdown of that film's representation problems BEYOND the Ellis-parts because it's worth your wild regardless of if you've seen the movie, please watch the three part video series hosted by Xiran Jay Zhao.

To tl;dr the 2021 drama: people have held an ire towards Ellis for a long time feeling like her and her white-woman base talk over, steal, or just straight up don't apologize for their own racism towards women and ppl of color, and after Lindsay did a problematic by pointing out that Raya and the Last Dragon was like ATLA, people jumped on her.

Being both a longtime fan of Ellis and white as fucc, I personally feel like Lindsay kind of forgave herself and threw out the actual criticisms held against her every bit as much as people just kind of treated her like a punching bag. Or, to paraphrase @padawan-historian's old takes from then, they treated Lindsay like she was trying to be the ENTIRE conversation, not the start of one, and like every possible outcome that could happen over her videos was her fault personally. Some of Lindsay's loudest and nastiest 'critics' were, in fact, other white people or just people who have no good faith in addressing her fuck ups, like Lily Orchard, fe.

One 'Lindsay did a racism'point tho that I felt wasn't truly addressed in full though were claims by indigenous people that she was anti-native, especially in her videos about Twilight and Pocahontas, which yeah at the time I was very passive of you can 100% find post abt that. But then Neechees linked me to an article I, and I think a lot of other video essay-fans had never seen before. This article accused Lindsay of stealing half of her talking points on Disney's Pocahontas from theirs.

When people on the breadtube spectrum talk of Lindsay, even people who criticized her at the time. all kind of agree that the intensity of the backlash was uncalled for and, while not everyone agrees if her public silence is a 'canceling' or not, agree with her need to just take care of herself these days. For those curious, this is the article making this claim:

I am not saying you need to all unfollow and hate everything Lindsay ever touched, mkay? But I also genuinely hope that Lindsay addresses this+comes clean because holy fuck. Unlike Somerton, all I can tell you is I don't just 'believe Windsey wouldn't hurt nobody uwu~'. I am pretty certain that Lindsay care about the topics she covers, for whatever that's worth to say as another whiteperson. It's just that, like Contrapoints, I ALSO think she has a tendency to deflect criticism within that sphere and lump all her negative bagage together. This really sucks cuz not all of us are Lily Orchards or Vaush clones.

Most of us are/were casual watchers of Lindsay like we are Hbomber, Contra, Lady Emily, Folding Ideas, and ToddintheShadows (does he count as leftube idk?) and we really, genuinely don't want to believe that Lindsay stole from + refuses to listen to women of color when they call her out.

Where I like almost everyone in the leftoob analyst sphere that's ever growing and hopefully now weeding out Illumanaughtii-s and Sommerton-s of the world, there ARE controversies within the space that I don't agree with creators on. Some are dumb things like the exact takes Lindsay has about movies n shows that I just up and disagree with her on, Princess Weekes' proshipping apologia that I have LOTS of thoughts on. However, some matters are clearly personal and about maters that just don't involve me. Earlier this year, Folding Ideas and Lady Emily ctrl+alt+deleted some replies they made to Quinton Reviews, making clear that they very much still dislike him based on something that happened between Quinton, Lindsay and I think SarahZ. And by "dislike", I mean also still believeing his former editor over him on who was boundary pushing about who in their relationship. On the offchance any of those creators or their stans somehow see this, know that I'm not going to tell any of you guys how to feel about whatever Quinton did in private I'm not aware of; it's just that I also happen to believe Quinton on this issue and I don't like the guiltybyassociation mantra.

>>>>side note: I hate that every time someone says "I believe so and so after hearing their side now" ppl jump on the "you were just a stan from the beginning and never actually able to listen"-bs. Yeah, being more familiar with one creator over the other means there's bias, sure, but I kinda hate that that once held bias means you can't be held as any kind of source or form your own opinions. <<<

Big introvert vibes ahead: the thing about any big social circle of better-spoken people than you is they ALL seem like a scary meangirl's table from outside looking in. The kind that'll send goons after you with passive-aggressive "this is slander against me and I have the right to be upset abt it sorry if the stans eat you alive". They can also be made out by their fans to be harmless internet nobody's who YOU are at fault for getting mad and staying mad at cuz it's not like it matters on the internet and are clearly just out for drama and 'twofaced' yourself. I think the reality is the same thing that drives every community forward as well as drives them apart: these people are legitimate friends. They stick up for each other the same way we stick up for our personal internet friends whenever there's shit coming their way. The breadtube circle, whoever that is at this point, clearly know some shit we don't about themselves as much as they don't know shit about us and our true intentions. One of them has a platform and responsibility, where the other has power in masses and following them or not. We gotta all make the choices best for us.

Anyway. I guess, if any of the stuff about Lindsay ripping off that writer IS true, I really hope that she admits and apologizes for it. That's not cool to do to her indigenous audience, or even me, one of her white fans who expects actually allyship.

[jesterghost]

Lets get it settled once and for all:

[anyonghalimaw]

i did something nobody should ever do. Ever. i  took a self portrait i made that actually looks like me and i fucking. edited it. to become Whiteperson. For the bit. whitesona real . Yes it made me want to die. do not do this.

[mikarchive2]

it goes without saying that even mentioning the sandman show makes me turn into an angry chihuahua but one thing i want to say about it is that they should make that guy wear black lipstick at least once . from one tinymouth whiteperson to another bold lip colors make us look 10x better . and by better i mean we finally look like we even have lips

[moodr1ng]

took me a while lol but i just went thru my follow list to remove inactive/moved blogs and found some people who slipped thru my vetting 🙄 ik just saying "dont follow me if you keep following racists" isnt gonna work overall, but just in this specific instance (since i said it on my sideblog and not here) if you still follow txttletale unfollow me, and if you reblogged or agreed with that racist fucking post (even if you deleted it after you saw everyone say its racist. idc.) unfollow me. rbing context in a sec

oh also unfollow me if you believe in ""transandrophobia"" AND unfollow me if you have "men dni" on your blog. yes im bigender this means im a woman AND a man and if you interact w me when you have that on your blog you are misgendering me openly. either fuck off or if you meant "cis men" or "binary men" then fucking say that.

[queen-mihai]

You are absolutely not hiding this in the tags, random peppercorn loving whiteperson

Chewing on peppercorns to *attract* white people

Chewing on peppercorns to repel white people

[r1ch-ln4mst3r]

once again lol-ing at the fact that i have the url "whiteperson". i love the internet

[abra-ka-dammit]

heavensward really just be like ....and here's A BLACK SKINNED ELF FINALLY! he's wrongfully accusing your friends of conspiring with heretics and works for the big bad and wants you dead!

and.....pretty much every other elezen in the game who isnt a grey duskwight is whiteperson. like

hey, lets talk about ser grinnaux, sqex. i just wanna talk. just a sec. i wanna talk about the first black elezen relevant to msq at all being evil, just a little while

[bartfargo]

“I’m sorry, Mr. Whiteperson, it seems that someone with your name did some really bad things, so we can’t let you have a firearm. If that wasn’t you, kindly fill out these forms, and you’ll be eligible to buy a firearm again in two years.”

[civicdirect]

If a #blackperson tells you that a #phrase is #offensive to them, then it is. #endofstory It is not #uptoyou as a #whiteperson to #tell them that it’s not. Instead, #educateyourself as to why the phrase is offensive and #stop using it. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDmV-czA9sR/?igshid=64wp2qldyhjn

[nintendomaster15]

This is true so stop looking at the past. #whiteperson #blackperson #slave #lookforwardnotbackwards #thepastisthepast #slaveryisnotok

[goodmode]

just tried to eat the spiciest ramen of my life [keyword: tried] and in true white person fashion i was humiliated and dragged backwards into hell. made it maybe 2/3rds of the way through the bowl through sheer determination but it ended when i realised i had tears streaming down my face. had to wash my mouth for like 20 mins. it sounds like im exaggerating but normally i can handle my spice and enjoy eating spicy food but oh ymy god. oh my god. genuine pain so bad my brain started vibrating. you win this one, ramen. what in the name of troll jegus am i gonna do with the rest? it was a multipack. if i foist these off onto anyone they might die and i can’t be responsible for that. Fuck