take it sleazy

Casual racism that is brushed off as “an innocent mistake” or “they didn’t mean it” and then everyone pretending like it didn’t happen and moving on with their day (repeat)

Speaking over fans of color about issues that pertain to them specifically

When fans of color speak out about something that makes them uncomfortable or why that don’t interact with it (usually because of the racial/ethnic bias) they are accused of being anti’s or pro-censorship

Characters of color being used as scapegoats/bashed/plot devices 

Characters of color never getting happy endings/real development

Backlash against characters of color if they do anything other than be a white character’s side kick/best friend

Actors of characters of color being harassed for something their character did or didn’t do

White characters/actors getting all the attention/credit despite the fact that they are a side character to a POC or on the same level as the POC

Fanfic authors patting themselves on the back for writing a “realistic” character of color and it’s just a bunch of stereotypes

Being told that they should be happy they were even included when they call out the above people

White fans crying about persecution/exclusion because their fav character/trope/kink/ship isn’t loved by all 

Fan artists re-imaging characters of color as white/lightening skin tone

Everyone rushing to a white fans defense after a well deserved call out while the fan of color receives hate

Never having a safe fandom space and always having to be on guard with new people/fandoms/chats etc because they’ve been burned before

- (re)writing characters of color as abusive and/or violent to infantilize white characters

white artists bragging to artists of color about how they “draw nonwhite/ethnic features better” than them even if the artist of color has said features IRL

fetishizing characters of color and profiting off of it (theres a popular white artist who has an oc who’s an indigenous brown woman and he brags about how all his [white] lesbian friends think shes hot and sexy but if you wanna see the only content hes made of her, which is extremely sexualized, you have to be part of his patreon)

racefaking (the amount of white bloggers ive seen/met who claim to be POC just bc of some vague fraction of nonwhite blood in a distant relative or citing literal pseudoscience.. )

white artists who fetishize black and brown bodies yet pat themselves on the back for ‘being diverse’ (this goes double if theyre racebending white characters into stereotypes)

digital black/brown face (howre you gonna use AAVE online and have a poc as your icon and talk about racism AS IF youre a poc and then be surprised when poc dont like you acting like one of them for clout 🤨)

any accountability a white person has when being called racist just being “teehee sorry for being racist do you still love me <3” and then acting like nothing happened

expecting random POC to be their sensitivity readers (they do not exist for you to volunteer them to tell you if your slave narrative is racist NOR should they have to tell you that your characters with made up fantasy/scifi names are actual racial/ethnic slurs)

white writers caring more about a (appropriative) fictional culture theyve become weebs for and ignoring poc whose real life backgrounds/culture served as inspiration

the “im white so i cant speak on this” argument becoming an excuse NOT to support any of your friends of color when theyre being attacked for calling out someone else’s racism

constantly triggering poc with sensitive racial topics just so you can get clout for knowing about it. i can assure you poc know how to recognize whitewashing and other bigotry

white people trying to explain racism TO poc. instead of spending their time educating other white people (that being said, when they DO try to educate other white people they do nothing to actually source nonwhite voices and instead just talk as if their white asses are an authority on racism)

“im gay/trans/disabled/have x minority identity so i cant be racist”

white people will make up ANY excuse to make a (usually racist) callout post about any poc yet keep stanning their openly bigoted white favs

white echo chambers surrounding white bloggers who think theyre the only source on what is/isn’t racist bc they steal and water down any point made by actual poc (who are either ignored or harassed)

the way literally ANY topic that white people can experience can be discussed in fandom spaces but the second you mention racism or colonialism or slavery it becomes “lets stay on topic”

“MY fandom isnt racist bc everyone is so nice to each other <33” <-the people who are THE most racist or the most complicit

using the real life traumatic history of POC as a backdrop to your historical AUs

white people assigning whatever social justice term to characters they hate, such as calling a character that has a BIG following of poc a white supremacist/nazi, instead of just being normal

white people who think fandoms are their own spaces to be the activists they think they are yet block/harass any POC who won’t act as their personal yes man

white knighting fictional poc while talking over actual poc

any discussion surrounding racism being treated as “discourse” on the same level as ship discourse

fandoms supporting white people who draw (usually fetishized) art of poc instead of supporting actual poc (white artists already have too much of an ego just bc they draw ambiguously brown characters)

only interacting with poc for their content educating white people and doing nothing to actually like, treat poc like normal people (or outright avoiding making friends with poc)

white fans gatekeeping what does/doesn’t make a fictional character a poc / poc-coded

changing the skintone of ACTUAL LIGHT SKINNED ACTORS OF COLOR to “improve them” instead of just?? taking inspiration from real life darker skinned actors??

white kinnies using nonwhite names and completely whitewashing their kins of color (ex; calling yourself Kyoshi or thinking your white ass knows what its like to be Miles Morales just bc hes an artist)

white people trying salvage THE most racist media imaginable instead of listening to the poc it harms

Fans of colour being called puritanical/obsessed with purity culture when we call out racism

White fans purposefully derailing conversations about racism that fans of colour are having

Fans of colour being called bullies when we call out racism

Fans of colours intelligence and/or literacy being insulted by white fans when we do something they don’t like, like calling out racism

White fans using the struggles of poc to virtue signal on their blog but actually listening to poc is too much for them

Fans of colour being instant blocked for trying to explain to a white fan in the most sugar coated way possible why a post is racist

Fans of colour being tone policed when we speak up against racism and if we’re anything but meek, polite and sweet, white fans will take that as an opportunity to dismiss us. White fans on the other hand can be proudly, egregiously racist and still earn a decent following

Fans of colour being blocked by white fans seemingly out of nowhere and then finding out that that white fan is racist

All a white fan needs to do when they’re being called out on racism is go “I’m sad, you guys are bullying me” and they’ll get white knighted by other white fans because white tears over being called out on racism is more valued than poc tears and anger when we call out racism

White fans accusing poc and other ethnic minorities of faking their ethnicity to escape being called out on racism

White fans using the excuse “I don’t talk about politics on my blog”, and then proceeding to talk about politics on their blog but avoiding anything and everything to do with poc because apparently that’s too much for them

White fans using any and every excuse to not include even major non white characters in their posts

White fans playing on the worst racial stereotypes of non white characters to use them as cheap villains in their fanfictions or headcanons

White fans throwing around certain buzzwords like “manipulator” to throw at us when we call them out on their racism to paint us as abusive and conniving

White fans treating poc calling out racism like it’s some sort of twisted play of power on the pocs end rather than just..them being exhausted at the racism in fandom

Well, are you in for a treat, because of course, I have now remade it in gif format!

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

As a young boy in school, Masaki Sashima would be dragged out of his classroom and beaten by his fellow students.

Masaki, now 72, was different to the other kids. 

He was Ainu, an Indigenous people from the country's northern regions, most notably the large island of Hokkaido.

"During recess, the hallway door would open, and several guys would yell at me to come out," he said.

"I clung to my desk in the classroom and kept quiet.

"Everyone would surround me and beat me."

Japan has long portrayed itself as culturally and ethnically homogenous, something that some have even argued is a key to its success as a nation.

More than 98 per cent of Japanese people are descendants of the Yamato people. 

But the Ainu are distinct, with their own history, languages, and culture.

If you want to help, please donate to the housing for homeless project Hui Mahi’ai Aina

“I think America should be taken by Denmark instead” No, I think America should be returned to its Indigenous tribes while Denmark returns Greenland to the Kalaallit, the Tunumiit and the Inughuit.

“I think Texas should be taken by Mexico” No, I think Texas should be returned to the Apache.

“I think Florida should be taken by Cuba” No, I think Florida should be returned to the Seminole.

“I think the Blue states should form their own country” No, I think the Blue states should return to the Chinook, the Yakama, the Nimíipuu, the Pomo, the Chumash, the Diné, the Wôbanaki, the Massachuset, the Haudenosaunee, the Pequot, the Lenape tribes, and the Inuit, the Unangax̂ and the Tlingit tribes of Alaska.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

What you're not getting here is that cultural imperialism is a massive issue that is far bigger than 'knowing your own queer history'.

A world in which everyone is familiar with most topics from an American perspective*, but not from any other perspective, is a world in which trans people have to express their transness in an American way in order to fit DSM diagnosis criteria and get healthcare.

It's a world in which sexually marginalized communities have to identify as LGBT - regardless of whether that fits their own concepts of sexual and gender diversity - in order to get funding for HIV prevention and treatment.

It's a world in an American academic who presents themselves as an expert on 'Africa' is more likely to be believed and have their opinions turned into policy, than any actual on-the-ground experts who understand the specific context of specific countries in Afrika.

It's a world in which sympathizing with the victims of bombings or disasters is intuitive and automatic when the victim is an American girl-next-door sorority applepie valedictorian AnneMae McDonald, but not when they're called Fatemeh and live in Iran.

Knowing your own history doesn't help with any of that because these problems are about the power imbalance that cultural imperialism creates.

Cultural imperalism creates access to being understood when you name your experiences. Cultural imperialism creates access to empathy. Cultural imperialism creates access to being seen as human, and to your life being seen as worthy of protection.

It's a big deal and it's kind of worth making posts about.

For example, I live in what they're calling Canada these days, and up here we use the acronym FNMI (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) to describe Indigenous people. Legally I'm an Indian, which is fun and definitely not racistly uncomfortable.

Native, Indigenous, and Aboriginal are also acceptable in Canada, but Aboriginal is falling out of use and is considered kind of old fashioned.

I'm First Nations, I've never even been to the states, most of my people's territory is currently being occupied by the North American arm of the British Empire (ie canada)

My love I am so talking to you!!