omg your post about checo THANK YOU. i was literally just about to put this out today:
i feel like everyone always leaves him out of these conversations and it is honestly very telling. it ESPECIALLY infuriates me as someone who is latina myself living in the very racist political climate of the US right now.
idk if i’ve said this before but liv istg you and i are psychically connected because YES!!!!! i agree completely!!!!!!!!! i think i made a similar post a while ago (found it!) but yeah.
it’s pretty obvious that different minorities get stereotyped and discriminated against in ways that aren’t always the same. yuki is infantilized so often. the media nearly never acknowledges alex as also being british. don’t even get me started on all the disgusting comments zhou got when he first started out in f1 (and still does). i mean cmon, lewis has always been really outspoken about racism in motorsport. it’s been happening.
i think lilli/@maxlarens said it best but language doesn’t exist in a vacuum. calling a mexican man lazy/violent/aggressive is racist, and pretending it’s not is just burying your head in the sand.
i saw a post that said this a little while ago, but when someone is posting racist rhetoric about f1 drivers, are they gonna be truly affected by this racist discourse posted by you? not really. but you know who is gonna be affected? latin americans, black people, japanese fans, poc communities that do enjoy watching f1 and that end up seeing other fans posting this type of discourse. when you post on tumblr or twitter saying checo is “violent” or “misogynistic”, chances are he’s not gonna see it. but you know who will? people from the community who face real consequences when you feed into stereotypes.
romaincrisis
annaxmalina
stormborns
andulkaphoto
kianamaiart
prguitarman
titsay
dailybridgerton
dededos
