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13 POC Characters That Were Surprisingly Played By White Actors

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Season seven, which kicked off in early November, has focused much of its existential storytelling on Princess “Bonnibel” Bubblegum and her gal pal, Marceline the Vampire Queen, culminating in Adventure Time‘s first mini-series, Stakes. The eight-episode endeavor colored in some of Marceline’s past, answered lots of questions about her relationship with Bonnie, and promised her a richer future. It also explored the loneliness and listlessness both PB and Marcie have grappled with as they’ve moved from childhood into adulthood.

a lot of people on here maybe do not think enough about paradigms and frameworks of racial power within the united states, particularly as it is structured around whiteness & white supremacy

i was scrolling through the asiam tag the other day and there were some posts that were like “oh no one would find it acceptable if someone did blackface but it’s totally alright if an actor were to yellowface!” which i think we can all acknowledge as anti-black bullshit being spouted by people who do not follow enough racial discourse from black activists and who clearly equate hypervisibility with some sort of protective shield against racism which is so obviously not how it operates, which i feel like is suitably obvious if you looked at the wider scope of media representation of black people? and there’s no excuse for these people but what i want to talk about

are the self-flagellating asiams who constantly post things like ‘asiams are some of the most anti-black communities’ or ‘asiams have relative privilege’ or ‘asians are not as seriously discriminated against’ because i find this to be a troubling, really unnuanced sentiment that’s a really popular one in mainstream tumblr activism and i find it kind of unsettling also, and also really lacking education & perspective towards both critical race theory and anti-asian racism

because like. modern racial discourse owes a lot to black scholars. a lot. many of the foundational theories and the ways we talk about race and racism in america come from them and this is really important, and this also informs a lot of the way we talk about racism against other communities of colour as well, right. but because a lot of racial discourse today uses the language of black scholars and theorists and activists a lot of our understandings of race necessarily come from a black experience of white supremacy

& i want to argue that it’s not a problem of degree (i.e. ‘asians do not experience racism to the same extent as other racialised groups’) but a problem of differing experiences (i.e. we experience racism in a different way because we are situated differently to white supremacy, we have a different history with whiteness, and so you cannot expect that racism be enacted upon our bodies in the same way)

& also when your only experience to asians & the discrimination we face is financially privileged light skinned east asians your understanding is ultimately incomplete?? because asia is huge and it is diverse, and there are many different types of racisms lobbed at different asian populations, different immigrant generations, different ways of interacting with whiteness and with america.

idk i just have so many Thoughts and i’d need a whole dissertation to organise them all but

Claire Jean Kim has a concept called racial triangulation that could be considered to actually get in people’s heads that Asian Americans honestly do experience a racism that isn’t exactly like anti-black racism, which is still wholly legitimate and not some kind of pseudo  New White/relative privilege status