The Powerpuff Girls:

11.30.18

“children don’t see/care about race”

“Color doesn’t matter! It’s about the actor/story!”

“there are bigger issues to talk about than representation”

“they whitewashed because they need to make a profit and attract their target audience”

“historical accuracy”

“It’s a European fairytale/story so of course the characters will be white!“ 

(Because it’s not like the setting could change and adapt to the story)

“whitewashing isn’t real”

“they considered and picked the best actor for the job”

(The best actor? More like the best we can do at this time.)

(It’s not the best actor when you exclude a racially ambiguous role to one race.)

“why do we need minorities in European stories!? they wouldn't do a story about Africa with white actors!”

“Maybe they didn’t cast an actor of color because they didn’t auditioned!”

“why do we need minorities in settings that don’t make sense!? you don’t see white people being placed in stories and setting with a non-white majority!” 

A former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September, shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn.

Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just before the Verizon acquisition, Khalaf was insisting the staff figure out how to better monetize.

On that note-