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There’s this really cute aromantic themed comic on Tumblr but I can’t reblog it. So here’s a link.
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Because I still am one. Because it never goes away. Because as a white person, I have absorbed messages for my entire life that I am better than the majority of people on earth, I have absorbed messages telling me that the only lives worth caring about are the ones belonging to those with pale skin. Every day of my life, I absorb more messages that tell me that. Those voices in my head are pretty loud.
There is no “delete” button for that.
What can happen is that the voices of people of color can be louder. If you really listen, if you commit yourself to looking whiteness in the face for what it is, you can hear other voices, voices screaming out their own humanity in the face of white supremacy. They shout pretty loudly.
But the racism is still there. It always will be. It never goes away. You can fight it, but you are never absolved.
As soon as you say: “I’m not racist” you wash your hands of any further responsibility to fight those messages that tell you that white skin makes you better, that anyone without it doesn’t deserve empathy or human dignity. As soon as you say “I’m not racist” you commit yourself fully to racism.
Yup.
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- Chances of finding fanfic 100%
- Chances of finding a good fanfic .0001%
- Chances of finding a fanfic with good plot 46%
- Chances of finding a grammatically correct fanfic with good plot .38%
- Chances of being scarred for life 949,394,932%
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just magic and dangerous animals.
which seems to me exactly how racist and ignorant white people have always imagined it, way back when people were still drawing dragons and fuckin’ unicorns on the maps.
The best part is that the criticism is so sparse that lazy hacks like Wrede can just ignore it and pander to the millions of other white nerds who conveniently forget that their ‘new world’ was full of people long before their diseased ancestors shambled off their coffin ships.
but yo, it’s telling that a white fantasy author is so fucking ignorant about non-European cultures, and too fucking lazy to learn anything, that they’d exchange ‘dangerous and savage’ Native Americans with dangerous and savage animals, innit?
you know, because we’re so fucking interchangeable.
genre fiction is some moniyaw bullshit.
*re-emerges online*
GODDAMMIT JESSE
IF I WOULD HAVE SEEN THIS EARLIER I COULD HAVE PRINTED THIS UP AND MADE THINGS AWKWARD AT THE AUTOGRAPHS TABLE BEFORE I LEFT MADISON
(aka “WORD UP TO ALL OF THE ABOVE” and “FUCK WHY DID I PACK UP MY COMPUTER”)
All this shit around er went down right before either last wiscon or the one before, and she showed up anyway. And I had participated in publicizing her fail a bit. And she and I wound up in the elevator alone together like twice, with her having no idea I was someone who knew her fail, and I just could not come up with something to say to her about what a shit she was in time.
Wait, wait, people didn’t know about MammothFail?
Oh yeah, I forgot all about this thanks for the reminder now I can point to it as an example of erasure of POC in speculative fiction. I can even compare it to Vampire Diaries where Native People are talked about but never seen ever. Even when one of the vampires is supposed to be half werewolves and werewolves were NDN the man himself is just white.
Oh, yeah. Let’s not forget the HIGHLIGHT of Wrede’s logic in that book:
…since there won’t be any Native Americans to have already done a certain amount of prepping land for human occupation, nor to be exploited later.
Yep. Prepping land FOR human occupation. Not, you know, living on it and using it for their own needs, they were prepping it for the eventual arrival of HUMANS, which clearly, the Native Americans were not.
Like there’s so much wrong with that shit.
(Also, since we’re on the topic of Americans without indigenous people, let’s give a shout out to Into the Far West for ALSO deciding the best way to deal with NDN folks is to make them not exist in their fictional world.)
Fucking racist bitches. On the topic of Fantasy not having POC in a European centric world they come up with shit like “There were no poc in Europe back then” even though there were. That is their excuse, so what is white people’s excuse when it’s set in a place where White people are not the majority
Wow. She’s off my list.
I knew it.
It never fails.
Give them enough time and they ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS reveal themselves. It doesn’t matter what sector of life
THEY ALWAYS REVEAL THEMSELVES.
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AFTER FOURTEEN TORTUROUS, SOUL SUCKING DAYS.
YES.
YES FINALLY.
*LET THE SCREAMING COMMENCE*
YOU ARE A FLAWLESS HUMAN BEING.
THIS GUY IS PERFECT.
and OFC I’LL BE MISSING IT JKFLDSAJKFLJ
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