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mydeadstars · 2 days

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real video reaction of me whenever i see any of my fav characters whitewashed

#fr tho why people do that #just why.#damian wayne #talia al ghul #dick grayson #katara #sokka #aang #zuko #whitewashing

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aria-ashryver · 7 hours

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I just had @mydemonsdrivealimo hop very politely into my DMs, following my reblogging a post about racism and whitewashing in fandom spaces. I had said something to the effect of “as white people, we will fuck up, and when we do fuck up, its time to apologise, listen, and do better”. -- perfect time to walk the talk!

MJ pointed out that I was one of many who had recently reblogged whitewashed art of a character of colour, and said absolutely nothing about it

Let me take a moment to apologise for this. Whitewashing in fandom spaces is unfortunately all too common, such to the point that people like myself who have white privilege, who are so used to existing in spaces that take great strides to accommodate them first, are able to look at art of characters we know and love and not even notice that something is off.

This has been a reminder for me to be more critical of what I am consuming.

I’m not above acknowledging my own fuck ups! My behavior was racist. I reblogged whitewashed art of a POC character, that was a shitty thing to do, and I’m sorry to anyone I may have hurt with my carelessness.

I also took a second to thank MJ -- our conversation was calm and patient (far more patient than necessary), and I really appreciated that they took the time to speak to me!

It can seem like the easy thing to do in this situation is stick your head in the sand and just not talk about it. I think there is fear that if you acknowledge you did an awful thing, it means you are admitting you are a horrible person. But this kind of complacency hurts people. Silence hurts people. And this is exactly how the cycle of casual racism in fandom spaces perpetuates -- just quietly hoping something will go away if you hide from your own failings isn’t going to help matters.

I’m not a horrible person, but I can make mistakes, and I can learn from them. So this is me trying my best to listen and do better!

#racism #whitewashing

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odinsblog · 6 months

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A humanitarian crisis is what happens after a natural disaster like a tsunami, or a hurricane, or an earthquake. A humanitarian crisis is when an unexpected accident happens. A humanitarian crisis is what happens to marginalized communities in a pandemic. Indiscriminately bombing a population of noncombatant civilians and then intentionally depriving them of food, water and medical access is a deliberate war crime, NOT some random act of nature. Words matter. Calling the aftermath of bombing civilians “a humanitarian crisis” is no different than using the passive voice to describe Israel’s war crimes without directly attributing them to Israel. Please do not let the well documented displacement, and the meticulously planned out ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians… don’t allow that to be whitewashed and erased away into some kind of unfortunate “accident” of nature.

And don’t even get me started on the tired media trope of labeling non-white starving people, “looters” when they take food to feed their families…

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soranatus · 2 years

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Made by audsrea!

#dc comics #marvel comics #anti mcu #mcu #the little mermaid #ariel #disney #whitewashing #tw racsim

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majinsawdust64 · 4 months

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I always see people talking about Robin being whitewashed after the timeskip but no one talks about Zoro, Usopp, and Law so I went into ibispaint and color selected skin colors from pre and post timeskip

Zoro, Usopp, and Law were whitewashed SO BADLY. I feel like people don’t realize just how dark Zoro was so for comparison here is his original skin color next to king someone who is canonically referred to as being brown.

Zoro is literally darker than king 💀💀💀💀 anyway the point I’m getting at is Zoro got done hella dirty by the timeskip.

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tepkunset · 20 days

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Quicksilver in X-Men The Animated Series (1992):

Quicksilver in X-Men 97 (2024):

Does anyone have the contact info for X-Men 97's art department? They seemed to have misplaced Pietro's skin colour.

#x men #x men 97 #pietro maximoff #whitewashing

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alwaysbewoke · 8 months

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here's a 9/11 facts for ya...

#whitewashing #9/11

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thecorvidforest · 10 months

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i keep seeing (hopefully mostly unintentional) whitewashed fanart of Ballister from the Nimona movie and i’d just like to remind any white people who may be doing fanart -

Ballister being brown is a very important part of the film. i know his skin is much lighter in the graphic novel, but as a brown person who watched the film it’s pretty obvious that they cast a Pakistani man to play him because on top of being a trans allegory, it’s also an allegory for racism. it’s intrinsic to the story told in the film.

same thing with Ambrosius being Korean. the story being told with the casting of Riz Ahmed as Ballister and Eugene Lee Yang as Ambrosius is of a brown man being framed to keep the power in the hands of white people, and of those in power using east asians (see: the model minority myth) to prop up white supremacy.

i could go on but i think you get the point. all that to say - the color of Ballister’s skin wasn’t just a choice made in passing to make the cast more diverse. same with Ambrosius. please make sure you’re representing that in your art.

#nimona #ballister blackheart #ambrosius goldenloin #nimona ballister #nimona ambrosius #nimona analysis #riz ahmed #eugene lee yang #whitewashing

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dalishious · 3 months

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Speaking of Alistair whitewashing, remember when the comics not only gave him paler skin, but also red hair and blue eyes???

Who is this?????

#alistair theirin #whitewashing #dragon age

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brother-genitivi · 9 months

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hiiiiiiii stop drawing this man extremely pale pls and thanks xoxo

when the game is released I’ll make a better ref post but for now have this

#baldur’s gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #halsin #druid halsin #bg3 halsin #halsin bg3 #halsin baldur's gate 3 #art reference #whitewashing #if u come at me i will block you instantly i do not care

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raging-guanche · 9 months

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assassin's creed fans when you tell them to draw arab people with arab features

#altair assasins creed #altair ibn la'ahad #malik al sayf #kadar al sayf #altmal #assassin's creed #assassin's creed 1 #assasins creed #poc in fandom #whitewashing

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violottie · 2 months

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"Here's why the "Dune" movies are being accused of erasing the original story's Islamic and Arabic influences" from AJ Plus, 28/Feb/2024:

#dune #dune 2 #dune part two #dune part 2 #frank herbert #whitewashing #cultural appropriation #cultural appreciation #islam #arabic

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magnetothemagnificent · 1 year

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If I wasn't getting ready for Shabbat and had the spoons for it I'd talk about how "classic" Jewish productions like 'Yentl' and 'Fiddler' deliberately present a sanitized and idealized version of Shtetl life and Jewish culture and history, when in reality living in the Shtetls was a life of poverty and constant terror and people weren't dancing around petting chickens and goats all the time and singing and actually pogroms happened all the time and children often died or were kidnapped before they reached adulthood and sometimes Jews were just outright forced to leave their villages and leave all their possessions behind and all the while in the Shtetls they were treated as the permanent underclass, underneath even the gentile serfs and had constant restrictions on their dress, their food, and their economy. This contributes to a warped view of Shtetl life even within Jewish communities, where they romanticize the "good old days" of the Shtetl before the Holocaust when in reality there were never any "good old days" because the Shtetl itself was a symbol of forced social isolation and oppression, and antisemitism always existed in Europe long before the Holocaust. And because most of the Jews who've lived in these conditions have died, new generations of Jews are growing up with a distorted narrative of their own history.

#jumblr #if jew know jew know #goyim don't touch #history #shtetl life #whitewashing

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alma-n · 9 months

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Stop whitewashing Holly Short

I feel like I have to have this talk somewhere outside my head.

I, a 14 year old teenager of color, have always loved Holly Short.

She was described as powerful, with features like a hooked nose, and a dark skin, that made her beautiful. Things that I have always been insecure about, teased for, insulted for, were what made her beautiful.

The powerful woman, who fought sexism and always did the right thing, IMMEDIATELY became my comfort character.

I started to feel better about myself. Draw portraits with my favourite features in my self exaggerated in them. I loved my own features, because she had them.

And then, after reading the whole series and loving it, came the thirst for content. Content in wich, Holly Short, was always whitwashed.

So many fanart, official comics, covers, the goddamn movie! In all of them, Holly wasn't how i imagined her to be. The fact punches me every time. Her skin, her features, are FLAWS that people just prefer to erase from her character.

I still remember how sad i got when i first was raving to a friend about Holly and she said 2 my face how she thought she would be prettier if she were white.

Whitewashing Holly is basically saying the same thing.

Many may go, "whatever, who gives a shit about her color".

But things like this are what make teenagers, kids, like me back at the time, insecure and hating themselves because of simply simply being born the way they are born.

#All I am saying is that #what we do to characters #even if fictional #CAN have impact on real people.#artemis fowl #fowldom #af #artemis fowl ii #holly short #whitewashing #personal experiences #book series #rant

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maslosstuff · 6 months

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