kind of fascinated by the multiple of posts in the face of the orientalist influence in scotts design that seem to be under the impression the racism is an active choice and that they need to go scorched earth on any of scott's content they've ever touched because they 'didn't know he was a racist!!!'. or, also people getting really mad that this is being done to 'attack' and tear down scott. take my hand. look at me a minute. people do racism on accident all the time and it is unavoidable for the people its directed at AND the people it isn't, because it is something systematic and woven in to the fundamentals of pretty much everything up to this point. it is there, it will be there, it has been there. yes, even in your funny non serious minecraft series, because it involves people who are alive and have been influenced by the world around them, which has a lot of racist and orientalist things to draw from. pointing out the racist nature of scott's unknowing orientalist design choice is happening because the conversation is important to Everyone being able to recognize its influence so that more things can have y'know, less orientalism and racism. whether that means scott changing his design or for you in the future to have the knowledge that when it comes to conglomeratizing styles for aesthetics that invoke the idea of being exotic and putting that eagerly with a promiscuous character type in a scenario that is supposed to be greek but is just vague gesturing to any countries around, hey, that could be coming from orientalist stereotypes ingrained in there from the public view. there are things that would never occur to you as something to do on purpose that are still orientalist and/or racist. that are still orientalist or racist. it's very hard to talk with people who would go 'i would NEVER/they would NEVER' when confronted with reasoning, because it's viewed as only on purpose action or like, the sign of unredeemable evil. this kind of shit will come from like, most people you could speak to in a grocery store? no one can avoid it like that, only fix their behavior and dismantle the things that encourage it. which to be clear because this is tumblr dot com, i am saying racism Is Bad, so you should learn how to identify and move forward from things that suck to do or say in yourself and other people to make it generally suck less ass for those it's directed at, not like, were all a little racist so its okay yayyy. improvement intent. if people don't want to fix their shit then yeah that's A Racist not just Being Racist yk. but anyway. orientalism. scott smajor. im sure this is not the first or last thing scott has or will do as a white scottish man that sucks for anyone who is used to having to pick up on racist or orientalist visuals, and i do not mean that as an insult, just as fact. all of your favs have probably had and have similar ideas impressed on them that they don't know is orientalist, im sorry if that's a shock and extra sorry to those very aware already. you can't walk out of the influence that is so ingrained in the world by loudly denouncing you'll NEVER intact with someone like THAT again, only the Good Ones because You Can Tell and they aren't doing Actions. like no, nope. i have bad news for you. come have a ponder and consider dissecting what influences came from where to make them recognizable and reducible instead of chest clutching for your blorbos honor or your sense of morally good taste. it doesn't need to be a massive blow up situation, it is literally just pointing and going hey do you see that? because I see that
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