im so tired of salem thinking black culture is all about looking sexy and constantly acting like black culture is comparable to bdsm diaperfurr "culture." he will go on and on about loving black culture and wanting to embrace it on himself more but will just draw himself with grills and outfits to show off his butt and breasts. he'll also drop the N-slur randomly if he's feeling extra brave but just cannot naturally. he literally forces it into his vocab to look "more black" cuz he's scared to scare his white audience away. btw how much if his audience do you think is actually of the minorities he's a part of? it seems he just chases all his poc supporters away because they will call him out on using the fact he's marginalized as an excuse for shitty actions when his white supporters are deeply terrified to because they dont wanna be called a racist transphobic fascist. he really got his fanbase walking on eggshells lmao. he just points fingers constantly and got to the point where he apparently hates white people and is busy hating them instead of helping his poc neighbors and friends (if he has any)
pls have anon if breaks & yes i can say the word, im just personally still uncomfy about using it myself
Completely understandable, anon.
Salem is a performer in a lot of ways. He’s performative about his interests. About his politics and his activism. His living situation. Even his kinks (though that may also be to hide more sinister things lurking below). So it isn’t too hard to connect the dots and see that he’s performative about his blackness too.
He uses it when it’s useful to him, like drawing his audience in with his ‘authentic’ black expression which he uses in his art*, and keeping his audience both sympathetic (he’s a suffering black man in need of aid) and apprehensive (people like them are the cause of his suffering in the grander scheme of things, so they’d better start helping him now with asspats and money).
It lets him bash them without the risk of them ditching him, because what kind of leftist would they be if they abandon someone in need? No less someone like him? He obviously knows more than them because he’s living the reality of being black in america, so it would be being a better ally if they listened and endured, right?
And like you mentioned, it’s also an excellent shield to use when he’s being shitty. Because the people calling him out totally hate him for being black and not for being a shitty person. So that completely invalidates any point they make. Despite a lot of us also being black, but he won’t see that. Or he’ll call us ICE agents and coons.
*Speaking of his art, it’s almost astounding how nobody calls him out for the nonsense he does and the stereotypes he leans into because of the sheer hold he has on his audience.
Making darker characters more menacing or aggressive would usually get someone flamed in his rants (and he’s complained about this too in the past ironically ). But because it’s him it’s just a mistake and it’s okay because he’s learned from it.
When he constantly portrays most if not all of his black characters as sexual or in a sexual manner? We just don’t get it, he’s being subversive about pervasive stereotypes. Then the subversion never comes, but oh well.
When he’s an orientalist shithead who sexualises cultures he’s not interested in exploring (or respecting) in the slightest? Don’t worry! He actually has roots from there, so he gets a free pass!
And when he’s done shouting from the rooftops about how much he loves the fact he’s black and how he makes unapologetic art that doesn’t care about white feelings? He’ll whitewash himself and his ocs to hell and back.
He’ll never learn more about black culture or history than necessary to look woke. He won’t help his black siblings unless it benefits him, because at the end of the day? He only cares about what affects him. And he’s perfectly happy calling you the fash if you try to call him out on it all.
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