#it tells me you're racist

[rinissse]

The racism you experienced does not have to be violent to be valid.

#asians have faced violent racism #but why must we bring up the most violent tragic events for anyone to believe us #it's just re-traumatizing us to explain it #im not sorry if me speaking up about it makes you uncomfortable #if you block me for speaking up about anti-asian racism #it tells me you're racist #aapi history month 2023 #people have been very dismissive even when asians been through genocide so...

[telekitnetic-art]

about your last post: I totally understand where you’re coming from. I’m a Coast Salish artist and have published some art for my tribe but I’m terrified of posting it online for these reasons. I’ve considered a side blog but I’m not sure if it’s worth it :(

I wish I could give some sort of reassurance or advice or hypothetical way of handling it that i'm trying out that might help, but the truth is that I'm just as torn as you are on the subject of sharing traditional art and culture to a broad audience who might or might not respect and appreciate my culture ;o; I don't *want* to have to not share my artwork, but the way the internet is sometimes, it feels like it's better to only share my art amongst close friends/family members because there are so many non-native ppl out there who will do and say hurtful things because they cannot comprehend boundaries and respect for a protected culture that the government and churches and general public wanted to pick apart like carrion while hoping that the people that belonged to it would vanish and meld into society quietly.

#thinking and organizing my thoughts on this is so depressing for me. #bc unlike what a lot of racists think I want to share my art!! I enjoy telling ppl about my culture and about how I do formline art and- #-how I want to combine formline art with modern media so the two can mesh!! #but at the same time the amount of people who are willing to see my artwork as an aesthetic or commodity for them to just consume and then- #-treat me and other Indigenous artists like me as shit (all while consuming our culture or what they think is our culture) #it just makes me feel miserable. #it's very ironic how many ppl will use the excuse “I'm honoring your culture so it doesn't disappear\you're just being sensitive and greedy #all while consuming culture and stereotypes alike without forethought and refuse to listen to Indigenous ppl they are supposedly honoring. #ask box #this is a pretty heavy answer but if it's any consolation I guess I'm relieved that I'm not the only one struggling with this dilemma #cw racism #cw cultural appropriation

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

idk if i have stated in so many words before but kinda weird for people not to care about the brown men of the story on account of them being men

like most people did to javi irl what the yellowjackets did in the show lol, dismissed always, no more than the little kid, he was already dead

#and like i know you're not only being weird about their race but also that they get inbetween your girlhood fantasies #as if the story isn't based around the lord of the flies which is exclusively a look into white british boys behavior #so i ask of you what does that mean for who the yellowjackets represent like are they truly girlhood #or considering me and the other fans of color conferred and realised this shit wasn't even written with black or brown women #in mind or their ethnicity for input in the writing like idk adding kessell to the writing ffs anyway #so it's clear this was written with white womanhood in mind like #don't y'all think it reflects a particular female rage more trapped in time and space than entirely universality #which is ok if racist tbh but it still allows a look into a particular face of womanhood and not all encompassing #and again travis and javi were right there the tragedy is of childhood not girlhood there he didn't even get to be a person just the #annoying little kid in most of their eyes it's kind of sad #and telling y'all could dismiss javi and travis so easily before lile they're not brown men #fuck im angry #yellowjackets

[wildflowercryptid]

a while ago, i made edits to some of the poképrotags' official art so they'd look a little closer to my headcanons for them!

free to use w/ credit!

#nate & rosa are supposed to have locs hopefully they read that way #i gave a lot of them brown eyes... bc i like brown eyes i wanna see them on more characters #pokemon #trainer serena #trainer kris #trainer dawn #trainer leaf #trainer selene #trainer moon #trainer nate #trainer rosa #headcanon edit #pokemon edit #pkmn edit #my edits.png #this goes without saying but if you're a jerk on this post i'm blocking you #and by that i mean being shitty & racist / colorist #if you've got legit criticisms of these edits pls tell me!

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

i'm cry laughing some people on twitter are now saying "izzy bashing" needs to be tagged in fics. how did these people ever survive watching this show where izzy is the CANON ANTAGONIST i'll never know

benefit of the doubt but i think most of them have gotten to this point gradually. when they first watched the show they were not attached to izzy the way they are now. i know for a lot of people it was blorbo at first sight with izzy but i've also seen izzy enjoyers say they didn't like him at first, and then fandom made them care about him.

like i'm pretty sure for a lot of ppl it started off with isolating themselves from ppl who made posts that they didnt like, like ppl who criticized ofmd for being based on two real people with direct connections to actual real-world slave trade (which is an incredibly valid thing to criticize abt ofmd).

another one that i think funneled a lot of fans towards being so delusionally attached to izzy was people pointing out or complaining about the disproportionate amount of fan content for izzy compared to prominent characters of color—which is a consistent issue in fandom no matter what the media, and is also a very easy one for people to be uncomfortable with whenever they see it get pointed out. people venting that "fans care too much abt this white man" often make fans who care abt that white man very defensive right off the bat, and then rather than engage with why they feel defensive or question if maybe their enjoyment of this character is fueled by implicit bias (which it might not be, to be clear! im not saying—and i have never said—that everyone who enjoyes izzy likes him for racist reasons), they stop listening to the conversation abt white favoritism and continue blorboposting as much as they want. it's incredibly easy for fans to brush off this convo as "just starting drama" and avoid the topic altogether because "fandom is for fun!" and they dont want to think abt difficult topics like racism and implicit bias, they just want to enjoy their blorbos in peace.

so they kept narrowing the takes they were seeing until they were in an echo chamber that kept moving more and more towards complete woobification of izzy hands. these people are now looking at the show entirely through izzy's pov, making posts abt how sad it is that none of the other characters are ever nice to him, how frustrating the show is from his perspective, how it feels to be deeply in love with someone who doesn't love you back. they've stared at gifs of con's micro-expressions and read angsty fanfiction and looked at endless izzy fanart and their entire ofmd fandom experience revolves around empathizing with this one character even tho the show itself continually makes him the butt of the joke.

at this point, telling these people to rewatch the show doesn't even matter. they've spent so much time over-analyzing every single one of izzy's scenes to the point where the emotional responses they get from these scenes are not the emotional responses anyone would have watching the show for the first time. they've warped the entire first season to fit their version of the show and are forgetting how often the show itself bashes izzy.

and the icing on the cake is the trolling. there's like, one or two people on here who go around sending anon hate and leaving nasty comments on instagram posts and harassing people on twitter for... like, i would say "for liking izzy" or even "for saying positive things about izzy" but like. i've gotten these messages, and the most sympathetic i've ever been to izzy was the post i made like "maybe he's mean bc he has chronic IBS. i'd actually understand him more if that were the case." so when i get these messages it's easier for me to just laugh them off bc it's so obviously just someone trying to make me upset, but people who do care about izzy (a lot of them being the same people who avoided engaging with the "why does fandom care so much abt white characters" convo) get these absolutely horrible messages about how they deserve to get hate crimed and they should kill themselves. and these fans who didn't want to even see vaguely negative posts abt izzy bc they just want to enjoy fandom in peace are now like "im targeted for just liking a character!"

so that's how we get to people saying that "izzy bashing" needs to be tagged. never mind that their definition of "bashing" almost certainly includes things that are not bashing but are just things that contradict the way they headcannnon him.

#ask #anon #mine #txt #og #izzy critical #izzy hands #ofmd fandom crit #if this post is in the izcourse tag no it isnt u just dont know how to use tumblr #obligatory Not All Izzy Fans disclaimer #also btw in case anyone tries to come at me with “it's stupid to tell people to pay attention to different characters”: #noticing the disappointing trend of fandom to fixate on white side characters ≠ telling people to stop making izzy content #im not telling individual izzy hands enjoyers to stop paying attention to izzy. there are a lot of reasons why ppl might like izzy #if i interact w someone whose ofmd contribution is primarily pro-izzy my thought is “oh they like antagonists” #not “oh they don't care about characters of color bc they're racist” ok im not gonna jump there without a reason #but on a fandom-wide scale this is a Trend that has happened over and over again in fandom after fandom after fandom #like We Live In A Society bro we can't just pretend white men are always the faves in fandoms just by coincidence #but also tbh if you think im saying that You Personally need to make content for characters of color? and you're getting MAD at me for it?? #then ur probs not someone i want making content for those characters lmao. u keep izzyposting to ur heart's content <3 have fun bestie

[rebuketheviolent]

"kim kitsuragi doesn't care about anything intensely" get out of my house. did you play the same game i did

#txt #1. tell me you're racist without saying it outright #2. have you seen how unhinged that man is about his car #3. kim cares DEEPLY the vital part of his character is that he finds that cringe about himself #and has had a lot of shit beat out of him by centrism/revachol/being a jackboot for capital

[withthegoodhair]

OLIVIE BLAKE PODCAST WHERE SHE ONCE AGAIN REAFFIRMS THAT LIBBY RHODES IS A CAPITAL V VILLAIN FOR THE VERY REASONS WHY SO MANY THINK SHE'S BABYGIRL YEAH YEAH YEAH I WIN I WIN I'M ALWAYS CORRECT!

#the atlas complex #ta6 #don't get me wrong: libby rhodes is a fantastically constructed character #but she's also a woefully AWFUL person and her descent is so brilliant bc you empathize with her the entire time!! ! #and then suddenly you're like wait?!!! this bitch is CRAZY?!?!? #libby in the atlas paradox like yeah she's the white girl you went to high school who said something so stealthily racist you didn't even #realize it until six years later #she's the white girl currently telling you you HAVE to vote for biden despite the genocide he's aiding and abetting #everything libby did in the atlas complex makes complete sense actually when you accept how breathtakingly selfish she always was #libby rhodes!! love that bitch and i hate that bitch #olivieblake

[leoninekelter]

cannot BELIEVE people who tell me Wings of Fire is worse than Warrior cats. did you READ the pro-colonizer heavily Christian propaganda. Did you ever ONCE think about how the tribe of rushing water is a racist caricature of native American tribes. Look me in the eyes and tell me that you never read any of that right now. I dare you

#WINGS OF FIRE IS NOT FREE OF ISSUES! #but NGL!! #I think it's better!! #stop telling me I'm wrong if you're white #if you're not feel free to sound off in the replies if you disagree btw that is different #purr purr purr #wings of fire #warrior cats #racism #reiterating that arc 3 is understandably kind of weird to read and I think the message falls flat #but I also thing the attempted message is valuable #In. Different examples and circumstances at the very least. #idk. I'm tired. Just stop complaining about arc 3 and ignoring how warrior cats is sexist ableist racist and homophobic in one go

[befuddled-calico-whump]

nothing like hanging out with new coworkers and finding out their number one brand of humor is just Racism 🙃

#or any other brand of ism #vent ahead #like i can tell that none of them are doing it in hate but fucking hell it's annoying me #its so much 'edgy middle schooler humor' like just trying to say the worst thing to get a reaction #nothing ive heard was even remotely clever #not that that would make it okay but it's like DAMN okay so you're racist and lazy #sorry for the rant im just annoyed and dreading this being the work environment all the time #my job has a reputation for being edgy on purpose but at the last location it wasn't like this #it was just roasting each other or making murder jokes #i feel like this takes it too far and for literally no reason but to try and get a cheap reaction #and it's also disheartening because i loved joking around with coworkers at the last place but i refuse to play along with this bs #and im not sure if i can bring it up without being labelled a wet blanket and basically becoming ostracized so uh #guess ill just take the slow route and not ever laugh or pretend i don't get it so they have to uncomfortably explain the joke #not whump #rant post

[catgirl-catboy]

Heartbreaking! Great post on racism uses white people as a stand-in for racists, now unrebloggable.

#fandomless post #tell me you're eurocentric without telling me you're eurocentric #one! people of color aren't a monolith and can be racist to each other #two! people can be racist to their own goddamn race

[legionofpotatoes]

gareth edwards 🤝 david cage

total inability to grasp the function of AI as a metaphor in sci fi storytelling as well as an overall lack of sensitivity towards geopolitical allegory within their childlike both-sides wankery that is too poorly removed from real-life aesthetics to be taken at face value

#you could even replace the tasteless civil rights allusions with gross orientalism and essentially turn one into the other. fuck me #I am going to be such a hater on the creator I am so sorry if folks here enjoyed it. no offense and no hard feelings #but if you ever wondered what it would be like if detroid become racist was a movie with a different aesthetic package but the exact same #optics and thematic follow-through. boy is this a perfect flick for you #if you are going to flippantly anthropomorphize your robots to the point of imbuing them with historically loaded cultural aesthetics. #then you're not in need of telling a heightened genre story within scifi trappings. you can just write a fantasy flick or even just #something real or historically rooted. otherwise you lean into the DIFFERENCES and make THAT the root of acceptance #otherwise you're just wanking yourself off for dressing robots in tibetan robes and making it sad when they blow up from american nukes #good lord have some tact or nuance in your god damn filmmaking. I know it's dire in hollywood right now but I KNOW y'all can do better #text #negativity #genuinely a david cage moment but in movies. ladies and gentlemen. we found him

[registered-morro-simp]

Aight fuck it this took me so long cause i wanted to make some concept art but i really can't draw architecture so i decide to just not show visuals

So the bird kingdom

Btw all the kingdoms now don't consist of just one species they are inhabited by specific categories of animals (birds canines felines etc)

It was kinda weird to me how chima decided to make an eagles kingdom and a raven kingdom

Why those bird species specifically? Why 2 different bird kingdoms? Why are the ravens in the show depicted as very racist charcuterie wtf lego

So i decided to unite them both into one big general bird kingdom

Which is in tern divided into 2 separate parts

Yeah babe this show is about furry racism and I'm gonna keep it that way

The kingdom is divided into the High Republic and the Lower City

The Republic is basically where the high class ppl live and high class in this sense includes birds that can fly (eagles hawks doves etc) cause the names higher and lower are literal

Even tho the chi river is on the ground birds of the higher republic harvest all the chi to power their flying luxury houses

These higher birds live by greek philosophers mindsets aka philosophers and politicians are the noblest of jobs while all other work is for slaves

And idk if i made it clear but birds aren't inventors in my version they're just philosophers

I talked alot about the republic but what about those guys at the lower city?

Well they're not having a good time

This city is where the nonflying birds live (ostriches kiwis chickens) along side some flying birds that are only there to scam the birds of lowers city and push them further into poverty

They basically have it all against them from higher birds looking down on them for not being able to fly and having "slave" jobs to other higher birds scaming them to keep their lives a living hell and even getting stripped of the resources from the river that is in their territory

While higher bird culture is all about sitting in bless all day and philosophising lower birds can't really afford the same luxury the lower birds sadly live in a society

#i know i kinda made the furries even more racist but if lego is gonna make a show about fantasy racist i am gonna commit to it #you're already making the furries racist why not go all out to drive home the message? #also when i say higher birds scaming lower birds I'm not just talking about the ravens #anybird could just go down and scam those poor birds if they felt like it #anyways i accept criticism if you don't like my changes you can tell me #legends of chima #chima lore rewrite

[threshholdofescape]

Every time a white woman imagines Rhys as a white man and uses white actors to fancast him an angel loses its wings and becomes a demon that will then become her sleep paralysis demon

#rhys #pro rhys #rhys is NOT a white man #please stop fancasting him with white characters #this woman really told me “bc no one can police our imaginations” #tell me you're probably being racist without telling me #acotar #acomaf #acowar #acosf #rhysand

[death-rebirth-senshi]

I feel like so many posts on the subject do not get that the point of moralizing your dislikes and a lot of discourse in general is like...the desire to be The Most Correct. To protect against ever feeling shame or cognitive dissonance. You just make a moral framework that enshrines your opinions and turns shame onto others, forcing them to conform or be labeled an enemy. In either case you can be assured of your own righteousness and do not have to endure the pain of examining your thoughts and biases or simply accepting that you and another person simply disagree.

I'm not saying creating a moral high ground to feel better is a fine and neutral behavior, it is bad, I'm just saying it's very common and a tale as old as time and that I feel like posts that are like "do people know they can just dislike things" (often there are social consequences for not liking things other people do!) or "You can say squick instead of trigger!" ("squick" doesn't provide that rush of moral superiority) miss this point.

(The fact that often people don't simply let you disagree of course compounds this, and the internet being so ridiculously large and social media facilitating bandwagoning and public shaming just amplifies it all x100, like it's no wonder so many people have anxiety disorders. The audience you feel you have to justify yourself to, the fact that you can't really talk to people in person, the amount of people you can potentially have against you...it's a lot to have to handle and I sometimes get why people rush to making very stupid hills to die on just to make themselves feel superior.)

#many of my problems offline and on have partly been caused by me being a hater so like. I feel defensive. And I'm part of that. #I do feel like it goes overly unremarked that there are consequences to 'just not liking things' #that range from just feeling left out to simply being shunned and treated like an asshole because you said you don't like that movie #I work very hard to not be that snobby person who shames other people for liking things I don't! But you know. Still. #moral outrage is so fucking addicting the rush feels so good and it's why the internet thrives on it and we have to confront this reality #if we're going to get anywhere #'why do people-' IT FEELS GOOD IT FEELS GREAT TO TELL SOMEONE YOU'RE RACIST IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ME

[robotpussy]

can you tell me about the cure and the smiths being racist? i think i heard about the smiths one, but i'm not sure? i'm completely out of the loop on this kind of stuff because i really don't listen to that music

i kind of wish you guys would look this stuff up before asking me about these kinds of things because the stuff about the smiths is VERY OPEN. one quick search will show you all the racist things Morrissey has said - even if you are "out of the loop" and with the cure I didn't even do extensive research, I watched a few videos and came across one (why can't I be you?) where somebody was in blackface (literally 3 seconds in they show up) and that was enough for me but the song "killing an arab" is also a song that contributes to this

#asks #like im sorry if i sound rude but I'm so tired of ppl asking me 'WHAAAAA _____ is racist? tell me more?' like that's all I'm here #for. to tell you lot what is racist and be your search engine. we are on the internet you can look this up yourself #unless you couldnt find ANYTHING i would appreciate it if ppl stopped doing this. if you're too embarrassed to look up #*blank* racism then maybe use a incognito tab or something idk

[gender-euphowrya]

when one of my ex-fav youtubers replies to a comment i made to address him casually dropping n-slurs saying i don't know what lead them to this but it's not right and all he's got to say to me is "i had covid"

#man come ON #his apology vid is bullshit too it's just ''lol cancel me idgaf y'all are sensitive'' but faux-verbose #anyway god damn it fuck off why are people fucking like this #ephemeral rift btw fyi if you care #like i didn't expect a long and deep essay written for Me Specifically in response to what i said to him but #you're gonna take the jokey route ?? when i'm telling you i'm outski from your channel because you've been racist??? #like it's some serious shit it was n words AND diminishing the horrors of the holocaust #that's not just a oh oopsie teehee moment that's straight up some mask off shit #keep your fucking covid then for all i care ffs dude #i'm gonna miss margaret more than i miss you