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and what about the audience that wanted to see, idk... A FAITHFUL ADAPTATION OF F&B??? accurate portrayals of the characters? the corrupt and bad side of the blacks? the benevolent and good side of the greens? the true complex nature of blacks vs greens instead of just "blacks good greens bad"?

ts just a simpler way of saying how they didn't want to:

1. deal with another character in the already fucked up lame ass adaptation they've made (and honestly this saved nettles because i actually don't want condom and mess coming near another one of my beloved f&b girlies)

→ make a ton of international appeals about it

→ world looks elsewhere

→ the US preys on our desperation due to the crumbling state of the economy (see: prior extortion) and plants upon us the shittiest election known to man

→ fascism wins against some other cia agent zionist BULLSHIT

→ fascism imposes fascist culture

→ people in need are scared shitless and actively and loudly opposing the fascist government

The fact that there is a racism problem in that country and mine (Paraguay) does not mean the entire population is composed of racist white people. Our governments absolutely did racist shit, and large parts of the populations have racist beliefs, that is true. But ironically, while trying to paint entire countries as white and racist you are acting like the millions of poc here don't exist. 77% of people in Paraguay are non white. I couldn't find an exact number for Argentina but it is around 15-20% (while a smaller proportion, those people still exist and should not be omitted).

We don't ignore the racism. There are thousands of activists here already doing the work to dismantle it. If you really care, then AMPLIFY THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE YOU SUPPOSEDLY CARE ABOUT. If you are from the global north, then educate yourself about anti-racism and anti-colonial activism here instead of taking of a place of moral superiority and talking down to us.

A translation of what each color means:

🟣 Occupation or deployment of troops

🔴 Coup d'etat

🟠 Military assistance

🟡 Government removal

🔵 Other

This map tells a story of violence and disappearances, and it doesn't even mention the many interventions that have taken place this century. If you still think that what happened in Venezuela was an act of "justice" and "democracy", you should think long and hard about this map and read a little more about history (maybe also search about the United Fruit Company). It is no coincidence that Latin America has been under one or another dictatorship since 1945.

colonizers being totally woke and normal:

also:

For every dollar an imperial worker receives, 10 cents is received by the global south. At the same time, they do nearly all of the production and manufacturing and logistics labor. Your wages are subsidized by the superexploitation of the vast swathes of people in the global south and this realization is neither a moral question nor a personal attack. A successful proletarian movement in the imperial core must come to terms with this fact and work in solidarity with the global south. "Socialism" that is only more social safety nets is mutually exclusive with such movement.

September 11, 1973 - Salvador Allende's last broadcast to the Chilean people. General Augusto Pinochet, backed by the CIA launched a coup against Chile’s democratically-elected socialist President Allende after a protracted US campaign to sabotage and impoverish the Chilean people.

President Nixon ordered the CIA to “make the economy scream” in Chile to “prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him.” Allende refused to surrender to Pinochet’s troops and died defending the Presidential Palace.

a couple days ago i found out that a respected blog that's about how to create black characters without being racist (run by a black usamerican) jumped on the 'argentina is white' train. when replied to by people with data and sources by brown argentines and afroargentines, she responded by ignoring said sources, mentioning blanqueamiento and saying that people speaking spanish in her post was 'inaccessible':

and while it's true that we shouldn't deny the very real existence of blanqueamiento in our history, which is the main way we invisibilized our indigenous and black populations and their innumerable contributions to the foundation, culture and continued sovereignty of our country (and therefore erased them from our history books!), this blogger kept insisting on pushing bullshit numbers:

for all of her mentions of blanqueamiento, she continued ignoring a key part of it: the manipulation of the censuses by eliminating racialized categories from them. not to mention that even to this day there are racialized people who don't see themselves as such, generally as a current consequence of blanqueamiento as well (they don't know, they're not sure, etc.).

i'm not gonna get into the absolute insanity of the implication that 97% of our population has exclusive european heritage, because not only that is obviously bullshit to anyone who has ever set foot here, but there are also genetic studies that show that over half of argentina's population has amerindian heritage. but i guess we can't expect people from a country where phrenology-based race science is extremely prominent to understand that.

and when someone respectfully explained to her that she was misinformed and directed her to more info by linking some of cumbiamurguera's (who has mapuche ancestry!!) posts? this is her reply:

'welp i'm not talking about this anymore thanks for your contribution! i will proceed to completely ignore it and in fact keep talking about this but only with people who parrot what i'm saying!'

and if you had any doubt that this gringa is spouting xenophobic imperialist garbage under the guise of calling out racism:

(hmm... could it be that those white supremacist beliefs aren't held by the same people who criticize the imperial core... could it be that the prevalence of right-wing white supremacist governments and politics in latam is directly related to us interference and has been for decades... hmmmm........)

this is the reminder for all of latam that i mentioned at the beginning of the post: no matter which race they are, gringues will always be gringues FIRST. before they're black, before they're trans, before they're disabled, before they're leftist. they will speak for and over us, treat us like we're the ones we need to learn from them and do things their way because THEY know best, because manifest destiny is alive and well in their brains. how dare we speak our language in a post that's about us. how dare we assume we know our history better than they do.

you might think this is all obvious, but many of us have been over a decade in this yanqui-dominated website, speaking english and consuming their news, politics, media, etc. and not even the most antiimperialist of us is immune to absorbing that shit unknowingly. so it's always good to remember that we shouldn't try so hard to seek understanding nor approval from them. and i say this as someone who's made a wonderful friend from the usa here many years ago, but that's one person i trust to actually listen to me when i talk about argentina and latam.

people like the ones above, though? block and move on. speak your language(s). learn your history. participate in your culture. consume your own media. go outside and protest. read las venas abiertas i'm begging. resist imperialism no matter how bleak the situation is (and i'm from milei's argentina so i know about bleak lmao).

as for the racism? listen to the racialized people in your country. call out people in your life when you can. like i said before, learn your history and go out and protest. do research! exercise your critical thinking. if you can travel to other cities/provinces/states, don't just stick to tourist spots: interact with the locals and broaden your horizons. if you have kids or work with them, or simply have a chance to teach them something, take advantage of any opportunity you get to explain things their history books might not say. la campaña del desierto. la guerra de la triple alianza. domingo faustino sarmiento was a raging racist.

i know i seem like a hypocrite saying thinks like 'block and move on' and 'speak your language' when i'm making this post, but i remember how bc of this website i used to think lgbtq history = stonewall and black history = mlk, yet didn't even know who lohana berkins and maría remedios del valle were. and i know there are teens growing up here. and i'm writing this in english bc my other post was seen by lots of people in latam, not just spanish speakers. that said, lazy can't-copypaste-text-into-a-translator anglos can go fuck themselves.

if you're still reading this and you want to learn more about racialized people in argentina (from the source, not from an ignorant yank) then there are plenty of accounts you can follow. identidadmarron, negrasymarronas, lunfardatravel and afroslgbtiq.ar on instagram are good places to start. this post is long enough, so you can check out @cumbiamurguera's #afroargentines tag for tons of info and more accounts to follow.