Bruh

A follow up on that vague post/rant about racism in the fandom

Sorry for making a separate post, but the reblogs of the original were getting so clogged I just had to. Please check out this post right here for the necessary context.

Ok moving on to my rant

Crazy how I wasn’t even gonna drop names and bro decides it’s time to be on bullshit. Apology or not, do you know how crazy it is to bypass being blocked?? And to bypass being blocked by a person who

1) does not want to fucking talk to you

2) you were racist towards.

Not even basic or “normal” ignorance but straight 19th century era racism. Who does that. Tf is going on in Russian schools that they’re teaching PHRENOLOGY

Also notice how when they listed out the “different races” they don’t actually use their phrenology era terminology. They don’t say “Australoid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid” they make sure to say “Australian race, European race, Asian race”. Why not say African/black race? But nah “NEGROID NEGROID NEGROID”

Is that not crazy y’all

You can really tell that this apology is less to legitimately apologize and more to quell their own guilt and embarrassment.

1) There were many people involved in this conversation, but they’d only ever reached out to @bakiuwu . Repeatedly too. Why? There was a whole group of people and you ain’t ever apologized to no one else?? Not that the apology would ever be worth it.

2) They had followed me sometime after the incident. I did not realize it was them, so I followed back. After I realized this I had blocked them. So………….if I’m the co owner of the server and had the server pinned to my acc ANNNNNDDDD my bio says that I’m black. You had to have realized who I was. Like there’s no way. Weird asf to go follow a person who you were racist to like how hard is it to just stay away

3) they very clearly behave as if they’re entitled/desperate to see people’s content. They literally admitted it to @bakiuwu in the tiktok screenshots. This is very clearly the motivation behind these “apologies” as opposed to being remorseful. Because if someone were truly remorseful, they wouldn’t have dragged the. convo as far as they did

4) I want to remind everyone that this isn’t us flaming a person for being ignorant. In the initial incident they were given MANY chances and MANY explanations. Honestly, they should’ve been kicked immediately. But there is a nuanced conversation to be had about how alt right sentiments are peddled in the education systems. It’s not their fault that they were taught these things at a point in life where they didn’t know better. But it is their fault that they decided to be bull headed as fuck about it when other people were nice enough to correct them.

5) I know I’m focusing really hard on the old screenshots, so this will be the last thing I say about that point in time. But it’s EGREGIOUS how their white ass decided it would be ok to default to the “ah man these silly Americans are dumb and sensitive” when a whole gaggle of people from different countries and continents were telling them they were wrong. And then it’s like…the two black people explaining why it’s wrong to call them negroids are dumb and sensitive? Might as well have called us monkeys

So circling back to my main point. I don’t want it to sound like I’m saying you shouldn’t apologize when you wrong someone. Especially if you were in some way bigoted. I think many people need to practice discretion and understand when it’s sensible to reach out and when it is not.

Their behavior, their “apology” (again, I believe it’s wildly insincere but I’ll get to that) is so inappropriate because why are you trying so hard to facilitate contact with people who do not want it.

Sometimes it’s best to apologize. Other times to leave people the fuck alone because you’ve done enough

Literally going out of your way to disregard the boundaries of people you’ve caused issues for shows me that they only really reached out cause it was keeping them up at night. Then it’s like. The person asks who you are and to remind them of what you did and you can’t even own up?? They shouldn’t even have had to ask.

Accountability 101 is being able to be immediately honest and transparent even if it causes you embarrassment. Because…..YOU DID IT. And to be like “aw man I’m glad you don’t remember me” like I know I keep saying it but you can tell they’re only reaching out because they’re mortified. Not because they can actually conceptualize just how harmful their behavior was

IT'S HAPPENING PEOPLE

I hate hate HATE to be the mf that vagueposts about something serious but with the way fandoms have been moving recently when discussing racism…I’m not in the mood to invite klansmen to my doorstep. With that being said tho, this has been on the back of my mind, and I really need to rant about it .

To sum this up the best I can. A little over a year ago, not quite going on two, there was a racism incident in a (now private) Baki server. A Russian artist (their nationality is important, as they used it to justify their behavior) decided it would be appropriate to start a conversation about “blackwashing”. This conversation quickly devolved, as one would expect, and they:

- kept asking why they can’t draw characters of color white

- Began to parrot phrenologist talking points

- said the word “negroid” multiple times

- said the word “negro” multiple times

The conversation mainly went on for as long as they did because they led with the whole “oh I’m foreign, I’m Russian, this is what I’m taught in school and I don’t understand why it’s wrong 🥺🥺🥺” bit, and there was a presumed language barrier, so initially people engaged with them in good faith whilst explaining that the points they were making were antiblack and they needed to change how they spoke/thought about race.

This quickly fell apart because they chose to debate people on if those slurs were slurs, doubled down on the phrenology shit despite being warned, and chose to argue with the black members of said server. (I would know, I was one of them!) They were promptly kicked. They only “apologized” upon their removal. And Despite being blocked, they decided that it would be ok to find and follow those same black artists across platforms because they “still wanted to see their content”.

The whole thing was never brought to public attention because: it happened privately, ended when they were blocked again, and as a BIPOC you lowkey gotta pick and choose what you bring to your doorstep because people lowkey dgaf. And idk it just wasn’t worth it, I don’t like to do the whole “call out post” thing anyways. So please don’t consider this to be that

But idk it’s all just so??? Crazy to me. Insanely crazy, I still think about it from time to time. Because white people just get to be racist and still expect you to engage with them, especially in fandom spaces. They get to say “it was just a phase” or “they didn’t know any better” or in some cases “it was a different time” and move on with their lives. Not having to make any real changes to themselves while black people are still impacted by their actions

I see their posts from time to time. See people interacting with them, because they don’t know— how would they know?? I wonder if it would even be worth it to say something. Personally, I think there’s no expiry on racism….and I’d consider 1-2 years to be very recent. But the truth is a lot of people don’t see it that way if they’re not personally affected. I mean, not the same fandom but look at how people have been reacting to the TADC situation!

Not to mention how people behave when the perpetrator “apologizes”. Like everythings magically ok after that.

Would people even care??? Long ass rant but what do y’all think. I don’t want this to read as “GO HARASS THIS PERSON NOW!!!!”, which is why I’ve omitted their name. I can’t lie I do have a lot of feelings about this because it’s really weird. That whole thing was weird. I’m in a weird spot cuz god forbid I say something and then everyones like:

@leatherskinn/Sonya being super mega racist and using multiple slurs like “negro” and “negroid.” AND parroting phrenology and race science bullshit. Along with transphobia and xenophobia. Yay, so cool! MIND YOU me and starbitez along with others of the server tried being patient (lowkey not me) and tried to lead bro away from that path but nope! @leatherskinn /Sonya doubled down like crazyyyy. Also they accused anyone who disagreed with them to be an America. Now for screen-shots of the shit on discord:

Like……okay…….. then the transphobia(mind you niggas in the server and this fuck ass fandom is queer):

bro immediately tried contacting me on TikTok,after getting kicked from the discord. (I’d already blocked them) trying to "apologize" but it’s so clear bro only wanted to have access to me and my content. Screenshots of the first time trying reach out:

The original post was made April 28th. Apparently someone reached out privately on May 8th, to ask who is being talked about. Starbritez sent them screenshots of everything. And idk but it smells like that person may have said something and it got back to @leatherskinn Which would explain them finding this account and dming me may 10. Who knows. I’m just now bringing this up because I didnt see the dm/ follow from them on this account until like 3 days ago (I don't be on this account, I only made it cause my main blog got terminated but I got it back). Screenshots of bro dming me:

Now I played dumb to see if bro was going to be real about what they did and said but nope! I said, I’m sure bro only reached out to save they own ass. Cause who tf says “I’m glad you don’t remember me” like nigga you are horrible. Also in the next screenshots I just go off on bro and bro hasn’t said anything since. But yeah since wanna to play in my face I wanna to share all of this. Now it’s up to Yall weither or not you’re gonna give af, cause this fandom never takes anything seriously.