the 100 is racist

White females: 1

White males: 3

POC males: 6

This bit of dialogue is so damn representative of Bellamy and Clarke’s characters and the contrast between them.

Clarke is convinced that she somehow deserves a second chance in Sanctum, and in her mind that automatically absolves her of any responsibility of her actions prior to that. For her, apologizing automatically cancels out any responsibility or guilt. It’s like Raven says– her problem isn’t making amends, she does that alright. She simply has no reservation to do the same shit again and again, no matter who gets hurt. She got away with it multiple times in the past, why not once more?

Bellamy, on the other hand, is perpetually tortured by guilt. It doesn’t matter whether what he did was actually necessary. He’s like a post apocalyptic version of the tragic figure of Orestes, forever chased by the Furies. Having spent years emotionally abused and gaslighten by Octavia and manipulated by Clarke, he’s trapped in a constant cycle of self-blame and torture, with no means of escape.

I’d say that leaving Octavia behind is a good sign and a step towards healing, but I doubt the show will even stick to it; Octavia’s mighty redemption arc will be probably be more important than Bellamy’s emotional stability in the end.

And Clarke? Well, Bellamy is simply never allowed to be mad at her for anything she ever does. Concealing the fact that his sister was in TonDC (or that she could save her, since she’s dead to her knowledge, and hundreds of others but chose to let them die)? Nah, we ain’t got time for him to confront her about it. Fucking off to play the girl scout in the woods and leaving their people alone at a pivotal moment, after she became a self proclaimed leader? Shut up Bellamy, how dare you hold Clarke responsible and make her cry. Holding him to a gunpoint and shooting him so that he wouldn’t open the bunker and save his sister? Meh. Sending him to die in a fighting pit, because his plan that would save hundreds of lives wasn’t to her taste? But she did it for her daughter (whom she later tortured with a shock collar)!

It’s easier to take advantage of Bellamy’s unhealthily guilt-driven nature and have him forgive Clarke for her choice to betray her so called friends. She knows Bellamy blamed himself for her “‘sacrifice”’ after Praimfaya– he’s Bellamy.

the 100: * puts Tibetan descent woman in  position of power*

the 100: * puts black woman in position of power*

the 100: * makes latina, disabled character one of the greatest characters in the show and makes her in charge of her own sexuality with absolute no slut shaming*

the 100: * makes half-Filipino male main male character*

the 100: * makes Korean descent male everyone’s beloved male character*

the 100: *presents big, muscled, tatooed, black guy as one of the most gentle characters who would never hurt anyone if he wasn’t made to do so by rich white male*

tumblr: but THE 100 IS RACIST!!!1111!!

BONUS:

in the 100 we have: 

* teenage lesbain being the person who holds most power in the show

* teenage bisexual girl being in position of power and being main character

* white rich male being the biggest source of evil in the show

THE 100: *KILLS TIBETAN DESCENT WOMAN IN POSITION OF POWER FOR SHOCK VALUE ALSO SO A WHITE WOMAN CAN LEAD THE GROUNDERS INSTEAD*

THE 100: *CASTS THE BLACK WOMAN TO BE STEREOTYPICALLY ANGRY* LMAO SO NEW SO PROGRESSIVE

THE 100: *DOESN’T GIVE THE DISABLED LATINA CHARACTER A LONG ENOUGH TIME TO MOURN FOR THE BOY SHE LOVED ALMOST HER WHOLE LIFE AND WAS SHOVED INTO A RELATIONSHIP WITH HER SLUT SHAMING ~WHITE KNIGHT~ TO PROP HIS CHARACTER UP MORE*

THE 100: *LETS WHITE GIRL WHO ONLY KNEW THE LATINA’S EX FOR A SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME TURN DOWN A RELATIONSHIP BC SHE’S STILL GRIEVEING*

THE 100: *WHITE WASHES BELLAMY’S CHARACTER BY CASTING HIM A WHITE FAMILY*

THE 100: *MAKES KOREAN DESCENT MALE THE SIDE-KICK OF THE USELESS WHITE MALE WHILE DESEXUALIZING HIM PERPETUATING A STEREOPTYPICAL TROPE THAT ASIANS HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO TIME AND TIME AGAIN*

THE 100: *GETS “BIG MUSCLED” BLACK GUY TORTURED ON SCREEN AND GETS HIT BY A WHITE WOMAN AND TEACH HIM THE GROUNDER WAY*

THE 100: *DEHUMANIZES THE WOC ANTAGONIST BUT DOESN’T FEEL IT FIT TO DO THE SAME TO THE TWO WHITE MALE ANTAGONISTS*

THE 100 FANDOM: *COMPLETELY DISMISSES POCs VOICES JUST TO SATISFY THEIR WHITE FEMINISM*

- Jaha isn’t stripped of power. He is, actually, one of the most important people in the show, considering his messiah acr. He, literally, has the destiny of all humans on Earth in his hands. He gave up his Chancellor status to Abby, but he  still considers himself the leader of Sky People. He’s important enough to be on promo poster for season 3 ( along with two women and one other poc male. Which is really awesome if you ask me)

And well, this is the 100. Show me character who wasn’t beaten on screen.

- Anya wasn’t killed for shock value. Anya was killed in the specific  moment she and Clarke formed some kind of bond between each other and started to trust each other because the writers wanted to show - again, as they keep on showing it whole 2 seasons-  that Sky People untintentionally brought the death and destruction on the Grounders.  

Lexa deosn’t lead instead of Anya. Anya was never a Commander. Lexa was Commander all along. I don’t really see your point?

- Indra is not angry. Indra is intelligent and callculation and a great warrior. And she is the one who taughts Octavia about the importance of being calm and patient. I can’t really recall the moment Indra was angry?

- First of all- can you tell me when exactly Wick slut-shamed Raven? Because I don’t remember it.

Raven is a  girl who wanted to be somebody’s first choice all her life. She broke up with Finn last season because she knew he didn’t love her in the way she wanted to be loved. He didn’t support her. He didn’t cared for her.  She mouned Finn - and it was devastating, haven’t you seen this scene?- as she would mourn a brother, a family member. He wasn’t her boyfirends when he died, what’s more- she has already began something with Wick, even though it was all only innocent flirting. 

Wick is good for Raven. He isn’t her white knight- he doesn’t save her, no, he makes her believe that she can save herself and stands by her side. He respects her and cares for her. And she is his first choice. What do you find wrong about it?

- Clarke turned down relationship with Lexa for a lot of reasons. But I think while Raven found comfort in sombody else- which is not bad, why do you shame this?- Clarke had to kill Finn. Her first love. It’s pretty traumatising, you know. 

- Bob’s mum is white. Does it white wash him?

- ‘’Useless white male’’ . I’m not saying Jasper’s the best character in the show, but GOD CAN PEOPLE STOP MAKING HIM THE WORST like this guy’s like 15, leave him alone.

Monty’s not ‘’side-kick’’ He’s Jasper’s best friend. Shame on you if you didn’t cry during their MW reunion. \

‘’ DESEXUALIZING HIM PERPETUATING A STEREOPTYPICAL TROPE THAT ASIANS HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO TIME AND TIME AGAIN ’’

I don’t really understand it. Does everyone has to have a romantic interest in the show?

Monty is the one who took down MW with Clarke and Bell.For me it makes him pretty important. 

I  don’t get the rest of your arguments, so I’m not going to discuss it. 

I’m not saying The 100 is perfect. For example, Lincoln is treated pretty shitty and I won’t pretend he isn’t. But black men who look like him are usally represented as violent and dangreous. But Lincoln is gentle. And kind. And he survivers. And I think it’s pretty nice.

They didn’t show Murphy getting tortured by the grounders on screen? But they did it easily enough for Lincoln, Bellamy and Raven? Lincoln and Raven get tortured on screen the most? I wonder what they all have in common …

Anya was killed for shock value.

Indra is the angry black woman. When Clarke first met Lexa, Indra was just a prop there to fume and and shout atrocities. She’s the close-minded grounder who refuses to work with the Sky people and follows her white leader to the ends of the earth. Because black women can’t truly lead right? There’s always gotta be someone they take orders from right?

Yikes. The thing about Raven and W*ck is the second they had a scene together, Raven’s story became about him. He’s a glorified extra hijacking Raven’s storyline. “He takes advantage of a girl nearly ten years his junior by guilt tripping her into reciprocating emotions despite her grieving the loss of her first love & closest thing to family she’s ever had. He also prioritizes his emotions over hers in multiple instances, and only matures enough to be seen as a self-sacrificing white knight deserving of her affection regardless of her mindset.“

Bob’s mom is Filipina though? See what you did there? Or did you mean in the shows? Because if so then yes? It definitely white washes him? Lol it doesn’t matter if he’s half-Filipino irl, if his role isn’t on the show? That’s white washing. It’s not representation if they’re playing a white character anyway?

Jasper was supposed to die in the first ep. His role could have been given to a POC, or to a white female? But no, we gotta have our white boys. For a show for white feminists, I don’t get why the fandom still loves their fuckboys? Don’t get me started on Jasper “Harper is a low-hanging fruit” Jordan. NO. Fuckboys like him are already given enough of a break in real life.

So why wasn’t the focus of the Mountain Arc Monty? If he really isn’t the side kick?

Yeah, at this point I don’t expect you to understand the desexualization. It’s not your race that’s been subjected to it after all. And it doesn’t really seem like you’re trying to understand anyway.

It’s so much easier to not call out problematic shit? But where’s that gonna get us? Change doesn’t happen like that.

You know I have to say I love it when white people speak over POC about issues they don’t know shit about. But, please, continue on with your racist and white feminist bullshit. Also lol @ “tumblr: but THE 100 IS RACIST!!!1111!!” More like, “(white) tumblr: the 100 is SO PROGRESSIVE!!!! so FEMINIST!!!! Um, what do you mean people who have actually experienced racism and know what the fuck they’re talking about are saying it’s racist? I’m not racist YOU’RE RACIST!!!!!!”

Here are some posts that talk in depth about the 100′s racism: here, here, here, and here. Here’s an anon who dragged your ridiculous post in my inbox and did my work for me. I also have an entire racism in the 100 tag for more details. 

i am personally offended by this lmao like???? 

a) in what way does abby put others before herself???? she literally only cares about herself and clarke and that’s IT anyone else she sees as a means to an end to help her and clarke stay safe. she has not shown herself to care for anyone else except her best friend from the first season who disappeared and for kane MAYBE. and are we forgetting the time she literally slapped raven for not giving her information and showed no remorse and was shown to not care about raven AT ALL in the blood marrow scene bc raven was no longer necessary to abby finding clarke so why should she care. abby is one of the most selfish characters on this show and that’s not in and of itself a bad thing but don’t deny it when everything she does is powered by her needs or keeping clarke close to her. 

you’re not fooling anybody

adc seems lovely and wonderful but she portrayed a minority on tv. bob is an actual minority facing actual prejudice from the same people rallying for ‘better representation and treatment of minorities’ and we all know why. 

bob has portrayed and spoken up for the lgbtq community, mental illness, and racial inequality as well as speaking the significance of personal body image issues directly related to his race and he is without a doubt the person on the cast who receives the most hate from people he has defended all because he–his character–now poses some sort of threat to the ship u stan. 

The show that wrote a sex scene between Bellamy and Raven because they’d been planning to kill her off the next ep and wanted her to do something ‘big’ before she went. Which seems disrespectful to both their characters tbh. That they were both used as ploys. Then Jason making that gross tweet later mocking Raven for doing it? The racist way Jason dealt with Ricky also reflected in his writing of Lincoln and in the writing of Lincoln’s death.

Criticize the racist comments you see fans make about Bob but also hold The CW and Jason accountable.

Side note:

I fucking love Bob. Always have and always will.

Neither ADC or Bob have anything to do with who casts who or what is written on their scripts. And also they’re real life friends who bond over flowers, like they’re not sweating over the otp commandments. They’re just trying to do their jobs! 

One of the things that bothers me most about bell@rke is that even if it does become canon, it will still be poorly written. Even if they do have romantic feelings for each other (like how though since klak has manipulated bellamy since season 1, and I literally have seen no proof of them actually having a decent friendship), those feelings will be so forced, and the writers will try to play it across as some great relationship.

Like if they acknowledged how horrible klak actually is to bellamy (and the others tbh), and therefore framed the relationship as a bad one, I could probably see it; not like it, but see it. I’m sure Bronte didn’t write Cathy/Heathcliff thinking “oh what a lovely example of a relationship”

klak is written as this this great hero, when she’s never really done anything substantial that sets her apart from Raven, or Bellamy, or Monty, in fact she seems to just make matters worse. The writers have created an antagonist yet treat her like a hero.

Again, I think klak reminds me a little of Cathy in WH, spoilt, manipulative, and quite arrogant, except she was intended to be written like that. Klak was written like that and we’re still expected to idolise her.

I can’t speak to any future events, sorry to say. Given that, what follows is 100% my personal opinion, which has nothing to do with the show:

I hear you. I understand. It sucks that you can’t enjoy a storyline because the history of popular media dictates that it will end in tragedy. I wish that were different. Maybe someday it will be. 

Wow, Kim, for a person who likes to brag about being a writer on the show, you sure have no idea what your job entails. Let me break it down: YOU (AND YOUR FELLOW WRITERS) CONTROL THE STORY. You could have not killed her. You could have not made her a lesbian. You could have “CHANGED THE HISTORY OF POPULAR MEDIA THAT DICTATES THAT A [WLW RELATIONSHIP] WILL END IN TRAGEDY” BY SUBVERTING THAT TROPE which you could have done if you had a lick of creativity and refused to use ~shock deaths~ to make your show ~edgy and ~progressive.

Eliza meeting Lexa at Melbourne Comic-Con 2016. Lexa (Jess) doesn’t have tumblr, lest I tag.

YES ANON. It’s been said many times already but since population control is a huge deal on the ark, there should definitely be more lgbt representation on the show?? But clexa’s there already so we’re supposed to just ~take what we’re given and be happy we’re even getting this much~ basically. Lmao ever since I realized that Lexa was doing brownface (thanks to la-petite-fadette bc I used to think she was mixed tbh) clexa’s left a bad taste in my mouth………..

They could’ve gone with Raven x Clarke or Anya x Clarke. But nooooo, it had to be two white women because qwoc don’t exist right? Even though both stories could’ve written themselves out………..

And I know I’m going off on a tangent here, but they’ve also got another perfect ship with Monty x Miller because the chemistry’s definitely there. But watch them ignore it because *gasp* two moc as the forerunners of lgbt rep on THEIR show??? Unthinkable. AND that’d be two gays too many.