#there is an inherent difference and construction is ugly and prideless and wretched

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actually reading mscotts whole starscream redemption arc thing is so so so much worse if you still view it through the lens of construction as race the way the entire rest of the canon up until that point treats it. this guy used to be evil and self centered and manipulative until he was shown a vision of what he would look like if he was white and he realized he had been living his life all wrong and swore off evil forever

#its already so fucking bad on its own. as a butchered trans metaphor. but im like haunted by how much worse it is in context #transformers #the amount of work that went into exploring construction as a racism metaphor and Largely avoiding the mistake of writing that theres #actually some factor that the oppressed were rightfully hated for. ALL of that and then she takes it and goes aaaaactually #there is an inherent difference and construction is ugly and prideless and wretched #cmon.