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*checks watch* Here come the racists who can't fathom Bucky being attracted to a Black woman.

"Ew! Another str8 ship!"

Do you really wanna be saying that about an interracial ship that includes a Black female love interest?

Do you?

(As if Black actresses haven't gotten racist hate from day one because their characters were love interests for fandom's favorite white men.)

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"The Dora Milaje are mad because Zemo killed their king."

"Every breath you take is mercy from me." —T'Challa, Black Panther

No, no, no. While technically true, that doesn't quite capture what Zemo did. Zemo didn't run T'Chaka over with his car.

He blew up the UN.

He blew up the UN.

He. Blew. Up. The. United. Nations.

The Dora Milaje's anger and hurt at Bucky freeing Zemo is bigger and deeper than individual hurt feelings. T'Chaka wasn't some functionary or figurehead. He was the head of Wakanda's government.

If a terrorist assassinated a sitting President of the United States by blowing up Capitol Hill, the Secret Service would feel some kind of way about it that went deeper than a matter of professional pride.

And now Zemo's out, and the only reason he's out is because the sad, broken white dude they invested so much time, energy, and resources into rehabilitating has helped him escape. Gee, would they be sore about that?

*Sam voice* That was a rhetorical question. They'd be pissed.

Bucky, John Walker, and Sam should count themselves lucky that they're all still alive because the simple and easy thing to do would be to kill them all and let Wakanda's extensive spy network get to the bottom of the super serum mystery.

Do you think for two seconds that the US government would've gone so easy on someone who helped Bin Laden escape and went globetrotting with him? Do you really think that NATO or the UN would just shrug and go, "Oh, well," when they found out Zemo escaped and that Bucky helped him?

Is the fact that Zemo's a quirky white man making y'all forget who he is and what he's done?

Bucky is lucky that Ayo didn't shove that arm up his ass.

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Y'all must think Black people are dumb

Did y'all sleep through both Age of Ultron and Black Panther? Is that why you missed the This Is Why We Don't Give Outsiders Our Tech scenes?

You had to have been asleep because if you were paying attention, you'd know that giving an outsider free reign to go wherever and do whatever with Wakandan vibranium or Wakandan tech, with zero contingency plans, would be abysmally stupid.

I get the distinct feeling that, if Bucky were using Stark tech for that arm, and EDITH remotely disabled it when he interfered in Stark business, people would easily understand why and not hold it against Tony.

Wakanda doesn't owe foreigners their vibranium or their tech. Period. Bucky's personal needs don't equate to or supersede a nation's. But mainstream media has trained most of y'all to expect Black folks to put white feelings above our own self-interest, so y'all don't know how anti-black it is to expect Wakanda to be nice to Bucky after what he did.

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Unpopular opinion: it's not Sam's or Wakanda's job to take care of Bucky.

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Unpopular opinion: There is no "both sides" to Ayo falling out with Bucky. Bucky fucked up. Period.

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"[You understand] very little of our loss and our shame."

I paid special attention to this line, and it made me wonder why it felt so much more poignant this time around.

It got me thinking about how white people, even well-meaning, progressive white people, often act as if they know more about the Black experience than they actually do.

Though Bucky sympathizes with Ayo, he acts as if spending a little time in Wakanda is enough to truly understand where she's coming from. Unfortunately, he has no clue what T'Chaka meant to Wakanda's people, to the Dora Milaje, or to Ayo specifically. He has no clue what losing him the way they did means to them. He has no clue what kind of message that helping Zemo escape sends to them.

That's not his fault. He's not Wakandan. He does not share that identity, so the deeper meaning of certain things will always elude him. If anything is his fault, it's his failure to properly acknowledge that. And I think that through Bucky's example, the show is letting non-Black audience members know that they, too, don't know as much about Black people and the Black experience as they assume they do.

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I can tell that a lot of Bucky fans griping about Ayo using the failsafe on Bucky's arm never watched Black Panther because none of them ever mention Ulysses Klaue.

Also, Wakanda doesn't owe white people vibranium no matter how traumatic their backstory.

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Even if Ayo wasn't a lesbian, she deserves better than Bucky.

The only way that relationship could even function is for him to fall to his knees and worship the ground she walks on because that's how out of his league she is.

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Unpopular opinion: Wakanda's security and resources >>> Bucky's feelings

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Alternate title for Ep 4 of TFATWS: "When White Men Don't Listen, Everything Goes to Shit"

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A couple of questions (receipts, please, or it doesn't count)

Does the vibranium arm have an actual kill switch, or is Ayo so badass that she could manually dismantle it in the middle of combat?

Where was it made clear that the vibranium arm is a gift to Bucky and not a weapon entrusted to Bucky to help him fight a global threat?

I ask these because I'm starting to wonder if fandom at large is overstating (or overstepping) the actual nature of the relationship between Bucky and Wakanda.

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"Why are you talking more about Bucky's arm than John Walker murdering a kid with Cap's shield?"

Some of us are Black. That's everyday shit for us. Sorry not sorry.

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