[ SECRET POST #6212 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6212 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Oh my GOSH this drove me crazy years ago when people were doing this with Cassian Andor (yes, it's me, the anon who can't shut up about Cassian Andor). There were posts shaming people for drawing him with his actual skin color: "is he white? No? THEN WHY ARE YOU DRAWING HIM WHITE???" The "progressive" thing to do was to draw him darker, which on its face was so, dare I say, problematic. Apart from the fact that it involved conflating "Mexican" with "dark skin," from this ignorant, Americentric notion that a) Latino is a race; and b) that Mexico is racially homogeneous (it's not! It's a pretty fucking diverse country!), it also involved overlooking the fact that Diego Luna is half British. Not saying having a British mother necessarily makes someone "white," but treating the white portion of someone's heritage as automatically and completely irrelevant is some one-drop shit.

A lot of the Discourse on race in fandom is so fucked. You peek just beneath the surface, and you find all this essentialism, all this flattening of identities, all this reliance on stereotypes and on American conceptions of race and ethnicity that don't apply elsewhere in the world, and often don't even apply in the US, but are instead used to force people into narrow categories that reinforce the troublesome structures we're supposed to be dismantling. "Members of X group are supposed to be look like this, and act like that; and when they don't, I will make sure that they do." Man, if you're really interested in diversity, how about you treat people as individual human beings?