Helen Rira

it is imperative that the cylinder remain unharmed

Antiracism is not a checklist!

Racism is not a checklist!

Stereotypes are not a checklist!

Appropriation (and avoiding it) is not a checklist!

You cannot "well if I don't do that, then I won't be racist!" Your way out of racism. Sorry. There is no easy way out of participating in racism. There just isn't! If you don't know WHY something is racist, you'll just end up doing something else that's a problem for the same reason, because you're treating it as an Individual Act and not understanding the systemic weight behind it.

"[description] is a stereotype" why? WHY is it a stereotype? WHY is it racist to unironically think and convey this sort of description about a person? "Black women being on welfare is a stereotype" damn so poor Black women should just starve rather than be a stereotype? Their existence is bad? They should never see themselves and their stories in anything ever?

NO. The stereotype isn't because there are Black women on welfare. The stereotype is from people already believing that Black women are lazy and incompetent and greedy, and using them on welfare as an example to reinforce that existing bias.

The racism is in the interpretation, in the treatment of this woman, not the woman herself! Are all Black women on welfare lazy, incompetent, and greedy? No? So then why would it be a stereotype to write about a Black woman on welfare, unless you were conveying that you, too, believe this message about Black women on welfare?

dissappointed with what blizz did with the darkwell survivors so im channeling that into a Mega-dungeon AU.