Overlap between antiblackness and antisemitism in fandoms:
- Jewish-coding and Black-coding ignored and erased e.g., character’s experiences are intentional allegory for Jewishness or Blackness, but people insist it’s about queerness instead.
- The desire to see Black and Jewish characters humbled. This is usually in retaliation for some perceived wrong due to a white character. Gets worse if said characters are successful in their fields, then it’s portrayed as “punching up”.
- Ethnic features being erased (skin lightened, curly hair straightened, slimmer noses ect).
- Discussions about antiblack/antisemitic tropes in fandom spaces dismissed because “real bigotry is more important” (“real bigotry” is then never discussed).
- When the main characters are Black/Jewish and yet the fandom won’t stop talking about that fucking white guy.
- Black/Jewish characters made out to be mean, usually depicted as bullying the poor white character (bonus if the “agonisers” are men).
- Infantilisation specific to non-white characters.
Also:
- Making it be acknowledged that they're Black/Jewish but then erase anything cultural about it and do it in the White European way culturally. Like with Christmas, festivities, weddings, food, etc. Also very common with any non white christian based culture (very seen in the fandoms of anime).
