just like I fear that kalis treatment in st and linneas treatment by st fans and kali haters might affect people's general reception to future Indian/brown representation and I know that's probably stupid paranoid but like
no you're right, it's not stupid or paranoia or dumb.
in general brown representation has never been accepted favourfully, and it's only recently begun to see positive light. Even then it's always a white washed version being fed. Always biracial, always white parent and brown parent, or somehow there to prop up a white character.
even in hollywood or global media in general, desi stars have an impossible time doing anything. everything about them is moulded to fit the 'ethnic but just white enough to pass' type shit. It's almost like displaying the exoticness of it. There was this whole 'Indians can be baddies??' drama that proved it. Like, yes! of fucking course— are you dumb?
racism is often something that lies underneath the hatred of poc characters in general, not always but often.
kali was done wrong by every single person, from her writers and audience to her in-show characters. and the way linnea has been treated breaks my heart everytime. like what she do to yall? act as a tragic character that you didn't have enough brain cells to appreciate and understand, just so your underlying racist and unempathetic rhetoric remained unchallenged, so that you could feel comfy and happy about whatever pathetic story you made up in your head?
it's so painful to see how detached people have become from basic human decency, empathy and fucking common sense.
and the rise of the white supremacy mindset in america is only going to stand to make things much much much worse.
