"Why can't you see that Disney's Rapunzel movie Tangled is obviously anti-semitic. It's a story of a obviously Jewish-coded woman kidnapping an Aryan baby."
Me: Aryan baby... I interpreted everyone to be Jewish. She has blond hair because of a magical spell. When the magical spell is gone her true self is revealed and it's a nice homely brown. By fairytale logic, not only is this her true self, but it's her more beautiful self. The story is literally saying she's more beautiful having brown hair. Also, the witch that kidnapped her maybe wearing purple and black, but the girl also wears purple and white, and her mother wears purple and white, and they have Spaniard names. Are Spaniards "notorious" for interbreeding with Jews or Nordic people?
Me: Oh, excuse me. You certainly weren't thinking of her shiny, shimmering, golden blonde hair that the witch kidnapped her FOR. You were thinking of her Aryan mannerisms and eyes and... Hair... You still said hair.
You tried so hard to come up with a way to say that she's Aryan without saying hair and you still said hair. Which was "blonde for 98% of the film". But, I'M STILL WRONG for assuming you were thinking about the blonde hair, because I must be wrong, because that's the only way you know how to communicate.
Yep. This is the threshold when I have to walk away. If a person disagrees with literally everything I say, to the point of refusing to understand what I'm talking about to this point, then there is no going back.
When your opponent is arguing that the princess can't be Jewish because she's so pretty, you just have to tap out and let them be mad.
Remind me how people will argue that Ruby and Amethyst are black-coded but Sapphire isn't in Steven Universe, then turn around and say that means Steven Universe is racist. And when I ask them why Sapphire isn't black-coded, too, they literally say Ruby is a dumb soldier with an afro and Amethyst has big wavy hair and is ratchet, but Sapphire is polite, poised, and beautiful with long, big, elegant curls, therefore, they don't see Blackness in her, therefore, Rebecca Sugar is racist.
When I ask the follow up questions of do the other Amethysts get coded black, the answer is no. Ratchet behavior alone "makes" Amethyst black-coded, and the twenty other characters who are genetically identical to Amethyst somehow aren't considered black as well, because they don't "act" as stupid as our Amethyst, and still waiting to meet someone who recognizes the problem with that line of logic...
(Incidentally, I've always considered Amethyst and Jasper as Hispanic-coded. Beta Kindergarten is in Mexico, Prime Kindergarten about in Kentucky. Their story is about struggling to find some self-pride when literally everyone is telling them their very existence is wrong. The Imperialist villains don't think they are good enough. But how do they prove they are if th ex-colonizing good guys apologize for their existence because it's proof of their colonizing? I'm Anglo black and my best friend is Hispanic black, and he used to correct people on how to say his name, and even I changed how I pronounced it. Until one day he said to himself, "So what if the people who raped my ancestors had a different way of saying my name from the English?" And he stopped caring.
Meanwhile, "Ame is black, cuz she's loud"... Doesn't sound very interesting at all. That's it?
Representation matters... So how can cartoons represent if you literally say "The pretty ones can't possibly be meant to represent me."
