#i.e. mixed kids being super racist because they are led to believe their non-white heritage is bad and they should try to be whiter

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something something the villain of the season (the one about how fear can give way to extremism if you're not careful and how easy it is for many, many people to become radicalized by one person's radical hate and how genocide is a bad thing actually regardless of whether individuals of the targeted group have themselves done terrible things) being a black woman who survived an incident of indiscriminate mass murder is perhaps. not the best idea considering the themes involved

#teen wolf #tamora monroe #hollywood racism #if I could change one thing about this season it would be to cast anyone else in the role of monroe OR to not make her like that #if you want a woc who gets involved in a radical hate group yeah that can happen but not like that #it's a very tone deaf season overall which reminds me of the line from douglas in 6a where he says scott would be a good nazi youth #when a minority joins a hate group it is to double down on hating who they are because they're afraid of what it means to accept it #i.e. mixed kids being super racist because they are led to believe their non-white heritage is bad and they should try to be whiter #monroe doesn't have that. she has no connection to the supernatural. she is just afraid of the other which she refuses to understand #which would be actually interesting if monroe was a white woman who thinks she's immune to radical hate and extremism #but as a black woman who's a victim of circumstance in a random act of mass murder just for the sake of killing people #that doesn't radicalize you against where that person is from. that radicalizes you against murder. #the setup of her story is that she is essentially the survivor of a hate crime or random killing spree. which is so very relevant #that's not how it explicitly happens on the show but that is the metaphor they walked into with that one #you can't have themes where it's convenient and ignore the other implications and connotations of the rest of your work #and the implication is that they used a black woman as a primary villain (and unredeemable which is interesting bc peter exists) #as the face of the radical hate/genocide group which targets a group of mostly children simply because someone like them was bad #they're using a woc in the role of the aggressor who hates all poc because of one person from one group who did something bad #diversity win the woman of color is racist. the word of the day is 'tone deaf' #tw writers/casting department be like I don't see race and then is racist in a new and unique way