gothamcartel:
There’s a bold line between whitewashing a character of color and changing a white character into being a person of color. For example, there is nothing important about Peter Quill being a white male, he’s just seen as a character and his race has zero effect on his character development, for me to change him into a black man, there’s now significance in his skin tone and a story to be told. The life of a black man is very different from the life of a White man. Peters take on life and people’s perception on him will change. Scarlet Witch aka Wanda Maximoff is canonly a Jewish rromani girl, her being jewish and her being rroma is by far one of the most important factors of her character. Her family, her culture, her themes are surrounded by her jewishness n romanii (ness) to make her a white woman and to strip her (and her brother) of their ethnicity as if they Aren’t valid , or not important is problematic. You are also stripping actual ROMANII people out of Representation, rarely do you see them in the big screens or in comics, and when they are it’s sometimes racist stereotypes with slurs in it. WANDA/PIETRO MAXIMOFF BEING JEWISH N ROMANII PEOPLE IS SIGNIFICANT TO THEIR CHARACTERS, THEIR FAMILY HISTORY, THEIR EVERYTHING. TO STRIP THEM OF THAT JUST TO MAKE THEM WHITE IS INFACT PROBLEMATIC. Racist! And Stupid!
Same thing with tchalla, his skin color has EVERYTHING to do with his character. He’s a black man, a king of an African country wakanda. You cannot make him white, that will erase the entire purpose of his character.
Steve Rogers, white guy , all American Christian boy. Making him latinx , black, native American or asian gives him more depth, there is now a much significant story to tell, Steve just being WHITE has no PLAY onto his character. Him being switched to someone of color would give him that factor.
Kalma Khan, She’s a brown muslim girl. There is a story behind her race and faith, she has significance to a story, and other women like her in real life, to change her into a white female is problematic , you are erasing the importance of her character and the stance she takes. And you are stripping brown muslim girls out of Representation. So your an asshole.
Moral of the story is, white characters tend to never have any significance to being white…they just are, so there is no harm in switching them out for another race.
But to change the race of a character or color which (ALL THE TIME TBH) the color on their skin, and religion is important to their character as white is wrong and sickening. It’s not rocket science you idiots.
SO WHITE LIVES DON’T MATTER, RACISM AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE DOESN’T EXIST, AND COLORWASHING IS A MYTH.
(via zooomies)
I KNOW WHAT I SAID YESTERDAY, but i need you all to educate yourselves on something that is going on at the moment.
if you’re in the uk, i am sure you have heard of what is called the WINDRUSH GENERATION, but for those abroad essentially it is this: a group of people from the british commonwealth who moved here legally have had their records lost / destroyed (to be determined) and a number of those people have been detained / not been able to be let back into the country after being abroad. there are threats of deportation flying, a man has his access to vital medicine on the NHS removed. like i said, these people are people who moved here when free immigration was legal, prior to 1971, and a lot of them LEGALLY on their parent’s passports (as was the system here) meaning a lot of them have no papers in their name. primarily, the people are black caribbean.
here’s the scary part, and why i am posting, my family are a part of this generation. my papi has lived her since he was 7 months old. while my mammy is jamaican born and bred, my papi never lived in his homeland, and he could lose his right to work, his right to the NHS, his right to live here, all because the home office lost papers, and his were in his parents name. now, yes, there have been A LOT of promises made in parliament, and i know theresa may is saying nothing will happen to these people and cases of discrimination against rightful british citizens will be negated by the government but 1) MAY HAS A TRACK RECORD OF BEING ANTI-IMMIGRATION and 2) because the government lost the only things proving when people like my papi moved here, we can’t prove they are rightful british citizens.
so what am i asking????
first, educate yourselves, please. you can read some more in depth pieces about this through these links: X, X, X, X- mentions of death in this one, VIDEO HERE.
second, if you are in the UK, please please please please LOBBY YOUR MP’S. you have a voice, we have a voice. send letters, call them, email them, tweet them, facebook them. create a stir. we are the people and we will not stand for some britons being treated better than others.
third, if you are not from the UK —– share our voices. seek us out, we are speaking, use your power to make us louder.
forth, PLEASE, if you read nothing else i link, read this. please, i beg you. listen to the stories of people like my father. listen to the windrush generation. hear their voices.
i know tumblr is america centric and i get it, honestly, i do. but i am british-carribean before i am here for any of you and i am begging you, don’t let us be silenced.
dollpng:
maybe… support mentally ill ppl even when u don’t like their symptoms??? support schizophrenics who frantically search every room they enter because they are scared of Something, support splitting borderlines, jealous narcissists, very sexual histrionics, schizoids who don’t fake empathy, systems with “mean” alters, irritated bipolar people, schizotypals who never “make sense”, paranoids who constantly constantly check on others to see if they’re causing them harm even though they don’t know them, antisocials who don’t try to be “nice”, avoidants who will avoid you for weeks and then message once and disappear again, dependents who can’t even dress without help deciding on what, ocpd people who need you to do things again and again and again until you do it Right, ocd people with “disgusting” intrusive thoughts and compulsions, psychotic people who yell “to themselves” and cope badly with their hallucinations, autistic people who don’t interact the way you want them to, adhd people who literally never sit still or listen to you, anxious people who always sweat, people w ptsd who refuse to let go off their trauma, people with addictions you consider to be “to blame” and with “ugly” withdrawal symptoms and everyone else. mental illness doesn’t just have symptoms you like and you have to accept that.
(via cahstlea)
