Iâm a different anon then the ones you have gotten and this is a genuine question whats the racism he gets is?
Why is the criticism he gets called racism ďżź compared to the rest of the cast?
What do they say thatâs different or makes them seem racist, again genuine question :)
hi anon! first off i want to say that this is all just my perspective, other poc in the fandom are allowed to have different ones. i'm not speaking for anyone but myself here.
to answer your second question, i think that it's fair to say that the characters most consistently criticized on this show are owen, tk, and carlos. that's not to say that the other characters aren't criticized, but i rarely, if ever, see criticisms of them on here. this is likely because tk and carlos are the most popular characters on the show, and people have.... a lot of feelings about rob lowe and owen. with that in mind, i don't think it makes sense to compare the criticism carlos gets to the criticism that say.... paul, or tommy, or mateo, or any other character gets. they're just not on the same playing field.
as for carlos criticisms that i find racist, the anon that kickstarted all of this would be a good place to start because that's a good chunk of them. holding carlos "accountable" endlessly, no matter what happens on the show, never describing what that actually means. being upset tk has been kind to him when he's made mistakes.
that anon was in response to a post i made about remembering characters of color can have trauma the way white characters can, and they go on to say carlos's "only trauma" is his parents not talking about him coming out after he had. not only does it understate how traumatic that experience can be, it also leaves out him being drugged against his will twice, being held hostage by trudy and her son, him hearing his father be shot and killed in his parents' doorway, him learning that the chief of the rangers was the one who killed his father (and then being shot by him too), etc. there is so much that has happened to him over five seasons that constantly gets erased or discounted in how it would affect him mentally.














