#anti-john walker

[crookedchoppedkingdom]

Now, as I rewatch Falcon and the Winter Soldier again, I am sure of two things. By episode 2, Karli and the Flagsmashers were referred to as "Robin Hood and the Freedom Fighters" by refugees who were hiding them from the government. Also, Sam answers Walker's questions about the mission and tells Bucky to chill out on Walker and Lemar.

Sam don't have to apologize to nobody about nothing. He was never the problem and doesn't like disrespect like anyone else would feel. The Walker fans who feel some type of way should only look in Bucky's direction.

Sidenote: During the therapy scene, when Bucky says, "You threw away the shield like it was nothing," which comes right before he says, "If he was wrong about you, yada yada," Sam tells him to shut up. That indicates to me that Sam was not appreciative of the assumption about Steve's choice, that he did not care. That shows Sam doesn't like people devaluing his and Steve's relationship, including someone like Bucky.

Last but not least, Sam called Bucky "Buck" twice before Bucky said not to call him that. Bucky was being petty. Man, the majority of the weird ass takes I've read about this show happen in the first two episodes. Y'all who had a problem did not watch this show well or long enough to be flapping your gums.

[iwasmadetobeasoldier]

I'm concerned that when Thunderbolts* comes out, more Walkers will show up..

God, give me strength-

[i-dont-know-eiither]

me and all my homies hate john walker

[scalesandredroses]

I actually really like how the show tries to justify, for one second, why John Walker was chosen to be the new Captain America by telling us he has three medals of honor, top physical and mental performance, has jumped on a grenade four times, but all that proves is that he's a good soldier. He might be a good man, too, we'll have to see, but the rest of the hour just drills in over and over again that he's an insensitive, insecure, entitled prick. Steve Rogers was a natural born leader by virtue of his humble disposition and empathy, and this guy really highlights what a difference that makes.

[sallypumpkinlove]

I haven't seen episode 2 of TFaTWS yet...but I already know that I

Fucking hate

John Walker. He is NOT captain America and he will NEVER replace Steve Rogers.

(I also love Sam as cap. That is all.)

Edit: I have been informed that he isn't trying to replace Steve.

Still hate him.

[karameki]

Poetry (?)

Well, again; I’m not a poet, but after I saw the second episode of #tfatws I just can’t hold back:

Twinkle twinkle battlestar, oh no wait, please stop the car

Shield doesn’t belong to you I think you already knew

Twinkle twinkle battlestar, You aren’t a hero at all

[mywingsareonwheels]

Me watching the mid-credits scene of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 5: oh good Gods aaaaah this is disturbing, Walker is both very not-okay and getting more and more dangerous and awful and murderous and I’m pretty sure he did take that woman’s call. Also Wyatt Russell is amazing.

My beloved partner watching it when we watched the episode together some hours later (verbatim, and with more scorn than I can easily do justice to in a text format): “awww he's making a little steel knock-off shield. How cute.”

(At which point I cackled for Quite Some Time. ;-) )

(Partner is loving the show so much too, it’s great. <3 )

[crookedchoppedkingdom]

You clearly had no ill intentions when you first made your post, and apologized when people explained a problem with it. You even deleted it as to not add to the problem. Idk why people are still up your ass about it?? I also feel like there’s bigger racial issues in the world than some random people online shipping Walker and Sam. Like if they actually give a shit about racism, they should go do something productive about it rather than bullying people on the internet over a post that came across poorly

This is just for @inthemourninglight, from the "John riding Sam" post. Bullying is repeated, intentional behavior by and an aggressor of group of aggressors to cause harm, distress. Bullying does not include a group of users criticizing one post from someone and expressing their frustrations on having this type of post alway pop up

Racial injustice doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The point of the show, significantly with the relationship between Sam and John, is about white privilege. How the very qualified black man gave up what he earned because people, even in real life, wanted someone like John Walker to be the person to represent CA. The scene is right after the government’s choice commits a war crime, and Sam is attempting to stop John, as he runs after murdering a man. The pic is right before John tried to kill Sam the same way he did the flagsmasher.

The writer of the show stated numerous times that many of the inciting dialogues came from his own experiences in real life. Anthony Mackie said the same and used his experiences for this show. If you have never heard how real people talk about these two characters and this show overall, you would know it’s not just a show.

I have watched many black men put in that position in real life or on their stomachs for the simple “fault” of being in the area. The negative responses to this post were about using the scene where John is the attacker to frame it as lust instead. Not only that, but use language like “John needs a cock to destroy him” to dehumanize Sam to an object, devalue Sam’s victimhood, seeing this is a moment Sam almost dies, and paint Sam as the aggressor. John just screamed in Sam’s face, “he is Captain America”. There was no need to do that except to reinforce his superiority over Sam, even though he was not thinking of his role when he went after the flag smasher.

This type of language is frequently studied in academia to correlate media with societal issues. The people who consume media also vote or express themselves politically as well. How many times have you seen black/brown people call out a very problematic post, and you think “it’s not that serious”? Intentions don’t matter if the impact hurts many people.