#blackcoding

For this poll, we have Numbuh 5 (Codename: Kids Next Door: 2002) vs WordGirl (WordGirl: 2007) Both of these characters are fairly strong for kids (especially WordGirl), I'm very curious to see how this one goes, both shows were pretty common in a lot of people's childhoods, WordGirl is unfortunately canonically ambiguous but she's frequently claimed by the Black community, as a kid i thought she was Black so she's Black over here too.

#this dingus: ok but the writers used this bigoted trope to show this

#me: ...are you an idiot or do you just like wasting people's time?

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If you can't recognize bigoted tropes in Usono juvenile literature and are inclined to just fucking believe what's told in a story rather than what's actually shown in a story perhaps don't attempt to join in on a post as a fucking nonUsono white person like you've got anything worthwhile to add.

The Animorphs writers did nothing to actually show that hork-bajir are unintelligent other than repeatedly say that they are and use blatantly bigoted tropes while saying so while also writing the free hork-bajir being many times more competent than the main characters in their offscreen activities even b4 Toby was old enough to do shit.

They both have interesting personalities, Toby is absolutely that bitch who will drag your name through the mud and just gives off so many theatre kid vibes; while Dak was absolutely that lil motherfucker who didn’t have a lick of common sense and stuck his hands into burrows without thinking AND Mr. “You really think I’m impressed with ya bitch ass?” 

BUT

Unlike Toby, Dak absolutely does not respect himself or his people. And that right there is the big thing. 

Dak might love his people but he doesn’t know them and he’s absolutely seeing them with andalite (*cough*child friendly white supremacist*cough*) tainted lenses. And frankly, no self-respecting person would knowingly marry someone they knew was as massively racist towards their people as Aldrea is to hork-bajir. And we absolutely know that being (more than likely accidentally) trapped in hork-bajirface did nothing to change her attitude other than letting her verbally distance herself from other white people andalites.

Meanwhile, Toby other there like: