Whitewashing in Samurai Jack
So I was watching Samurai Jack’s fifth season for the first time, after busy work at grad school and I noticed something a little strange.
I noticed that Jack looked a little more white, even whiter than his parents, he didn’t look the same as he did in the previous season. But then I realized…
THEY DID CHANGE JACK’S SKINTONE INTO WHITE. SERIOUSLY?
I saw this on Twitter, thinking this may be a joke but holy shit this is legit. Tumblr loves to complain about the dumbest shit.
Like every white man I have ever met, instead of formulating a sound argument, their only response is expressed through the malice of a mocking gesture, such as this gif. Pity.
Mind telling me where on twitter my post was shared, without my permission?
First of all, I’m a Mexican you dunce. And yes, you’re making a big deal out a cartoon character after all. You know what why not boycott the series while you’re at it, I’m sure other fools like yourself will be happy to oblige on your ludicrous crusade.
And you’re white yourself and complaining about shit like this? That makes this more of a joke now. As far as the Twitter post goes, I don’t need to disclose that, no one needs your permission to post your post.
One last pro tip: It shouldn’t matter whether a cartoon character is white, yellow, black, or any color because it’s a fucking cartoon and the creators can do whatever the hell they want and not pander to people like you. When you say platitudes like “there’s this cool black and/or Asian man, but ugghhh this nasty white man doesn’t belong!!” then that makes YOU the racist. It makes YOU racist towards whites even if you’re white yourself.
Mexican =/= Not white
“IM A MEXICAN YOU DUNCE DUHHH…”
What?
…you’re complaining about whitewashing in a cartoon while LITERALLY WHITE WASHING AN ENTIRE RACE OF PEOPLE. Mexicans are not “white” no matter what their skin tone is, god damn.
“ Mexican =/= Not white “
Please stop. Just, please. Stop. Whatever good place you think your criticism is coming from I promise you that you’re teetering into being incredibly racist yourself to justify what is, ultimately, an incredibly petty complaint about something that was probably done to avoid being considered racist to begin with.
Like, do people NEED to sit you down and point out how questionable it looks when MULTIPLE WHITE PEOPLE all agree that it’s “wrong” that Jack doesn’t look more yellow? Because judging by your blog and the edits you’re reblogging this sentiment seems to be coming almost exclusively from white people and your response to the PoC dismissing it have been to call them racist or white themselves.
That’s tumble in a nutshell color is color, until it gets mouthy, then it’s white.
^^^ holy fuck that’s perfect.
I hate this website.
