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if u think poc talking about fandom racism is ruining ur fun and putting a strain on the community, I wish u a very shut the fuck up

helsinore

I’m starting to realize we may not all be ready for Racism 102, aka “often times, you don’t think ‘I’m going to be racist,’ you just act on it.”

It does not matter what other reasons you have for being racist. It was still racist. White people lashing out on people of color when In Their Feelings About Something is still racism. White people objectifying people of color for WHATEVER reason is still racism.

spacecat24-7

TL;DR: read the damn post

I do want to be clear: my posts have specifically been about Cinderella Boy, but lack of/poor representation for poc is a huge problem across webtoon and the media landscape in general. I specifically called out Cinderella Boy because I really enjoy it and have been thinking about it a lot given that we’re almost to the season two finale, but this problem goes way beyond a single webcomic. Yet by discussing a single webcomic, we can start to understand the problem as a whole. I’d say I’m sorry to anyone white who felt offended, but honestly I’m not—if your first reaction to someone pointing out racism is to get defensive, then you have work to do.

If you are truly interested in making the world a more equitable place—which includes making it so poc have a proper and respectful place in mainstream stories—then I recommend you follow the blog @/creatingblackcharacters. If you don’t actually care, then don’t bother. I have learned so, so much from this blog. In particular, the book club is an excellent way to educate oneself, so I recommend reading all of the past books (White Fragility, White Tears/Brown Scars, Mediocre, and currently, Medical Apartheid) as well as following along when we start our next book in August(?), Beloved by Toni Morrison (and reading the book So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo for good measure)—a task I myself am still working on, because learning is never finished.

I am saying all of this simply because it is the right thing to do. And I’m not trying to say the work that we all—including me—need to do will be easy. In fact, like me, you will probably also feel really uncomfortable, upset, and guilty. And you have to just sit in those feelings and feel them without saying anything, and it won’t be fun, but it’s the only way you’ll learn to put them aside, listen to the needs of poc without making it about you, and focus on how to actually effect change in the world. And one of the small ways you can begin to help is to point out implicit racism, however slight it may seem to you in your privileged eyes, and have discussions like the one we’ve been having. I’m not a perfect ally, I’ve certainly fucked up in the past and I’m sure I’ve fucked up in some way without realizing during this situation. The only thing we can do is try to better every day.

Because our discussion has centered around webtoon, I want to end this post by uplifting six webtoons that do feature people of color as main characters, which are

Daybreak

My Missing Oscar

The Blind Prince

Superfish

Dagger to the Heart

Cinderelle

Thank you for reading.

fuckthisshit-ugh

tw // forced displacement, state violence, destruction of indigenous land

there is something happening in madhya pradesh (india) right now that not many people are talking about.

it's called the ken-betwa river linking project. ₹44,605 crore (40 million USD). india's first ever river interlinking project.

the project is being built inside the panna tiger reserve. to make way for the daudhan dam, over 6,000 hectares of protected forest land will be submerged. 12,000 trees have already been felled inside the reserve. estimates for the total number of trees that will be destroyed across the project range from 2.3 million to 6 million. the supreme court's own central empowered committee flagged this. the panna tiger reserve had tigers declared locally extinct in 2005. it took years of work to bring them back. the project will now drown the habitat that recovery was built on. it also threatens the ken gharial (crocodile) sanctuary and critical vulture nesting sites downstream.

22 villages are directly affected in the first phase alone. over 7,000 families. gond and kol adivasi (tribal) communities who have lived on this land for generations, whose entire existence — food, income, culture, identity — is tied to jal, jangal, zameen — water, forest, land. they are being told to leave.

most families have rejected the rehabilitation package. the compensation is below market rate, surveys have discrepancies, and many families have received nothing at all. homes have been demolished during the monsoon season. people are living in the open, in the rain. there are videos of a tribal family sitting among the rubble of their home circulating on social media. the administration says precautions were take but families say they were inside when the walls came down.

when they protested, the government of india filed false criminal cases against them. cut off electricity to villages. demolished schools. and then, on july 19 at 5am, police moved in and forcibly broke up a 17-day sit-in on the banks of the barana river. the protest leader amit bhatnagar, who had been on hunger strike for 11 days, was taken away. the police say he was hospitalised because his health "worsened." (exactly what happened with sonam wangchuk) the protesters say he was detained before he could speak to the media about alleged corruption of ₹400 crore (4 million USD) in the project. the protesters' slogan was: nyay do, ya maar do — give us justice, or kill us.

this is being done in the name of providing water to bundelkhand, a drought-prone region. that's a real problem that deserves a real solution. but the people being displaced are asking something reasonable: show us the surveys. pay us fair rates. give us land for land, not just cash. consult our gram sabhas the way the law requires.

india has some of the most biodiverse forests on earth. the adivasi communities who have protected that land for centuries are not obstacles to development. they are the reason any of it still exists. and they are being evicted, intimidated and arrested so a dam can be built inside a tiger reserve that the government's own courts said should not be touched.

woesofwiltedwisteria

India, where the form of success looks like who can leave the country behind. India, which, despite having the youngest and most talented minds in the world, does not know what to do with them. India, where the competitive exams are more exclusionary than inclusive. India, where everyone tries to reach the 1% to top the exams. India, where parents and students believe that they can reach that 1% if they work hard enough and failure is individual failure; they weren't working hard enough. India, where the children lost their lives chasing a dream they were denied. India, where it took so many deaths to even raise a finger at the failed system. India, where accountability is never taken. India, where the political theater of a hunger strike couldn't work because the other side lacks basic empathy. India, where the ones who question the system are forcefully silenced. The one fasting is forcefully detained. India, where children are getting their future stolen.

hometownrockstar

Hi! 👋😁 I'm nonbinary character from show 😏 I show up for 3 episodes in the entire season! everyone loves me for my confident attitude that has no depth behind it, and I get called they for 5 entire lines, and that's the extent of my identity being shown in the whole show! Isn't it cool how normalized being nonbinary is in this world, so much so that no characters ever have to be shown getting misgendered or questioning their gender, meaning everyone else gets to be assumed to be cis, except me, The Nonbinary One.

fuckthisshit-ugh

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

creatingblackcharacters

I keep thinking about how I was being accused of dehumanizing Argentina by talking about what I saw and it's just like... This was a World Staged Event. The Entire Planet was watching. We all saw the poor conduct of the team and of the fans. Were we not supposed to... Gather anything from that? How is it not the fault of the team and the fans for embarrassing their country with their behavior, but instead our faults for talking about what may have led to that sort of behavior? And again, this was not just me! Plenty of folks from across the pond and in Latin America were also talking about it!

And before someone says "well you didn't talk about-" yes I did. Yes WE did. We saw Mbappe drag that racist Paraguayan senator for filth, well deserved! That whole "it's because he's from France" yeah whatever, we know what made her say what she did about him. Shit, she told us lmao. We talked about how France and these European countries sure can find Black people when they need athletes, but hate them otherwise. That was another thing that got a lot of us involved. We can see the antiblackness in it all!!!

megancrow

the greatest duo to exist

pagets

She doesn't know what to do with it!!! All the love Ava has for her!!!

AVA DANIELS and DEBORAH VANCE in HACKS — 1.06 "New Eyes" / 2.08 "The One the Only" / 3.09 "Bulletproof" / 5.02 "Number One Fan"

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galaxycepheus

If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules