#coded racism

“I only wonder if unbiased technologies were available to us then, could they have enabled an alternative story? If images produced by Western culture represented a wider variety of black and brown identities, images in stock agencies that showed black women in professional settings, or just carefree girls, jumping rope, swimming, camping, with all shades of light highlighting how light changes on our skin, that together we’d reach some accord, some comfortable vernacular about the diversity of beauty and humanness. I wonder if the technologies available to us in those days would have taught me early how to love the richness of my brown skin.”

It’s pretty interesting how the “top post” in the “Fire Island” tags is a gifset featuring a secondary white guy. I should remind you that “Fire Island” is movie about gay “Pride and Prejudice” romance between two Asian male leads written and directed by Asian men, a movie that points out how Asian men face discrimination and racism within the community… 

Granted the movie just came out yesterday, the situation may change, but still. People out here watched this movie and thought that a secondary white guy is the hottest thing that should be centered above the two Asian leads.

(for the record this post is about the pattern in fandom that exists)

diversehighfantasy:

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This whole thread by Dr. Pande (“Squee from the Margins”) is on point, and it doesn’t let anyone off. It’s not just other corners of the fandom, as much as people love to say that they never see racism so they must be doing something right. If you never see it, you probably don’t see it when it happens.

diversehighfantasy:

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Context: There is a big Tweet going around that appears to be a pro-Finn tweet. I almost clicked like, then I looked at the thread. The point of the post was – “DLF is accusing the fandom that wanted Finn to be the lead in the Sequel Trilogy of racism!?”

FALSE.

The StarWars twitter said don’t be racist about Reva in the Kenobi series. A lot of fans took that personally, which is a tell. Hit dogs holler, etc.

Don’t use Finn as a deflection. The SW fandom has been fucking horrible about Finn since 2014.

blackfemmecharacterdependency:

fansplaining:

“With fandom the kind of racism that you most commonly see isn’t things like racial slurs and hate speech and white hoods. What you really see is a constant communal prioritization of white people and white characters, even when there are non-white characters in major roles. This is a trend across almost all fandoms.”

— Holly Quinn in Episode 22A of Fansplaining

I’ve never come across a fandom in almost 40 years where this wasn’t true.