a common and insidious trope that i hate and have been noticing a lot lately in contemporary media is what i like to call colorblind abuse of power. every time a story(and this is happens a lot in like, sci fi and superhero media but really it spans all genres) deals with things like class inequality, american imperialism, cop propaganda, unethical scientific practices, etc… they cast people of color. the classic one is the black cop, which is so laughably pervasive that it actually surprises me when the background cop characters are all white. but also, like, the evil CEO or mean boss or manager or person in a position of power that just so happens to be brown. or how in the show the boys, the military/FBI room that’s watching “terrorists” in the middle east just happens to be more than half black and brown people. same in shows about politics/white house/governments/surveillance agencies. or when a main character has vague flashback recalling how they were used as test subjects, and the scientists just so happen to be people of color. these characters are not important, they are rarely even be named, half of the time they don’t have lines. we are not supposed to notice them beyond their conceptual existence filling the necessary role in the plot. but the casting of actors is never accidental – they are there to purposefully misguide away from and obfuscate the fact that irl the great majority of abuses of power is directly linked to white supremacy -__- 🚬🚬
And they’ll show a white man character standing up to a cop of color and then they’re all fuck the police even though they’ll literally get away with whatever they’re doing
