just know that you and all of your friends reblogging multiple forms of this dumb ass racist ass colorist ass take are so so wrong and you refuse to acknowledge the fact that while you are a person of color, you are apart of what society views as a model minority and you are also very fair skinned. you all are talking about how one white person is talking over you and taking up your space as an asian person in one breath, and in the other are taking up space to erase and invalidate your own darker skinned people and BIPOC. you are a person of color but you also are speaking from a place of privilege which you always need to remember.
you and others start these posts by maintaining that you know that colorism exists in asian communities and in general but then by the time I finish these posts I am honestly wondering if you even know what colorism… is? is colorism not prioritizing and centering and favoring light skinned people over dark skinned people? ???? did you not just say:
that head canoning asian characters as being dark skinned is “[a] shitty headcanon that’s racist anyway” (it’s racist to want to see dark skinned people representend?)
in response to head canoning asian characters as being dark skinned you said “for what?” as in there is no purpose to it and that is is not meaningful or signficiant or necessary for dark skinned people to be represented?
that if we head canon or represent asian characters as dark skinned that we are “”taking away”” light skinned representation for asian people. do you ever wonder why it’s not a common term for people to say light skinned representation? maybe because most characters on screen and on page, in magazines, in leadership, in government, and other places of visibility and power are .. light skinned? maybe because it already exists and that is our global societal default?? maybe because light skinned people of all races are much more likely to see themselves represented??? how can you take away something that is so pervasive???
and this line. “colorism is rampant in asia but that doesn’t mean light skinned east asians aren’t the majority.” “but “fuck light skinned east asians, frank and drew are now dark skinned.” like I’m floored ??????????????????????/??////// what tf are you talking about?? you literally just said oh yeah colorism is a big problem but that doesn’t mean light skinned asians shouldn’t be priotized (it’s the cognitive dissonance for me)
you and people who are buying this bullshit should really sit back and reflect on why instead of acknowledging that many asian people are light skinned, the colorism in asian communities and general society is rampant and directly affects mis- and under-representation of darker skinned asians and other BIPOC, and advocating for darker skinned people that share your culture to be represented; instead you decided to shit on someone saying that darker skinned representation is important. I have never said that light skinned asians aren’t a majority, and I am not saying BIPOC can’t have eurocentric features, and I’m not saying that anything is absolutely a set rule when it comes to BIPOC features. what I am speaking to is the effort to which you and others are resisting allowing BIPOC with dark skin and other marginalized ethnic features due to racism, colorism, and hair texturism, to get the representation that they desire and the deserve. the effort to which you want to shit on that and say it’s “not accurate” and say that it erases your own white skin is very telling.
what I’m reading is that you’re running scared as fuck of being invisibilized in the same way you invisibilize other BIPOC that don’t look like you (which would never even happen because you and other light skinned people will always, ALWAYS be a majority and oppress darker skinned people because of the historical forces at play), and you are afraid of being minoritized even if that means uplifting the many different representations of BIPOC. maybe you should worry about that instead of acting a racist fool in my mentions.
it would serve you to critically think about these issues and the positionality of your discourse, and how what you believe about race and colorism is directly impacted by your racial positioning, your own features, and your experiences, and make space for people that are disagreeing with you (rightfully so). it would serve you to engage in racial discourse for the purpose of listening and learning instead of being aggressive enough until someone is convinced that you’re right.
you can stay mad as fuck but if you are maintaining this take at this point you are fucking racist.
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