wait it sounds like the racism you're talking about in eleanor and park isnt the institutional racism "of the era" but just pointed racist comments against a character that go unchallenged by the narrative. how is that not a valid criticism of the book? and how were you being patronizing??
THATS EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN LMAO like there is a difference between contextual racism and ENTIRELY unnecessary racist comments toward one of the main fuckin characters i don’t understand why these people feel attacked or how i’m being patronizing (other than the poor lil white girl thing but that wasn’t initial so)
Regardless of whether it was "initial" or not...you still said it and you were clearly trying to make her feel smaller, carry on acting dumb all you want hahaha
