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Gonna quickly throw in an epic quote I found on this article.

KJKJ: Gene Roddenberry, with balls of brass, got up on national tv and said, “hey people, if a geneticist took all the best DNA from planet Earth and put it together to make the best human the world has ever seen - he wouldn’t be a white guy.”

This is why I find the casting of a white actor in this role to be so repugnant. They are not whitewashing an Asian role, they are saying that the best genetic material that the entirety of this world and it’s diversity has to offer….still comes from a white guy.

Reblogging again for that

Omg yes

Basically.

Gene Roddenberry was the shit and J.J. Abrams is just shit

““Wow this makes me nervous. Her hair is definitely darker than expected.” This is how the Divergent fan’s mind works.”

And yet no peep about Four being white.

I see.

television-and-tea:fandomsandfeminism:

petition for people to stop using kaya scodelario, emily browning, logan lerman, and alex pettyfer as literally every character in literally every YA book fancast

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Everyone is posting pictures of who they vision Mara dyer. And a lot of them a tan and have Indian in them. But Mara is suppose to be really pale just like her dad.

God forbid people fancast someone who’s actually half-Indian as a character who’s half-Indian instead of using yet another Caucasian actress just because the character’s skin is described as pale…

That’s okay, and I figured that at that point you were running out of characters on the ask length limit since there was no ending punctuation.  Although the term would have been “blackface,” I think. 

NP!

thecivilunrest replied to your post: re: blackwashing “the oppressor cannot be…

I tried using the “oppressor cannot be oppressed” argument in my newspaper class and can I just say that it really astonishes me how many people can’t get this?

Well, I think people confuse that idea with the notion that the person saying it is saying “you have had an easy, great life,” and that isn’t true.  It’s the same reason I think people have such a fucking issue understanding privilege, which really is not hard to understand if you actually listen to the words being said.  I don’t mind answering anyone’s questions about “what is privilege” or whatever because I do think a lot of SJ discussion on Tumblr happens under the assumption that people understand what “you have _____ privilege” means when most people, especially from the US, genuinely don’t understand it and haven’t been exposed to it before.

Like, nobody is saying that being white means your life has not had any hardship, especially if you’re a white woman.  Or an LGBTQAIP white individual.  Or whatever.  And no one is saying that being neurotypical means you cannot feel sadness or insecurity or whatever, and nobody is saying that being a man means that you’ve never felt threatened by another human being.  That isn’t what privilege means.  But that’s what people hear and instinctively fight back against because they don’t like the idea of being told that their experience is valueless or insignificant… or incomplete.

That’s my only “this” gif.  I need a better one.

samebutharold replied to your post: Okay..I think I kind of get it? But it just seems…

Black washing isn’t even a term? Is this anon serious?

It isn’t a term, and they were being serious, and that’s why I spent like half an hour on the answer(s, because I’m still sad Firefox crashed on the first one).

It’s okay to have ignorance of something as long as you’re willing to listen and learn when you find out that you had ignorance about it.  I’m still learning, too.  And unfortunately, white people in the US (and probably UK? And Western Europe and Canada?) just don’t learn this shit through culture, media, or school. 

And we should.

:| I just spent 25 minutes writing a response to this but my Firefox crashed because I have 44 windows open.

Bullet points:

• Blue eyes are not universal.  They are associated with fair appearance in general, which is either whiteness or more associated/accepted/”passing” as whiteness.
• Kenneth & Clark study, as repeated in 2006.  You can look it up, or there’s a good post going around on Tumblr about it.
• Blue eyes HAPPENING in all cultures does not make them common, or markers of, “universal” looks.  They are much more common in white people and are associated with whiteness, not with people of color.
• Lighter features do not make someone more attractive. Lighter features do not make someone more attractive. Lighter features do not make someone more attractive. Lighter features do not make someone more attractive. Lighter features do not make someone more attractive.
• Lighter features DO, unfortunately, in the United States, make someone CONSIDERED TO BE more attractive, more hireable, more trustworthy, more likely to be found innocent, less likely to be stopped “at random” by cops, more intelligent, more likely to be called on at school, less likely to receive disciplinary action at school or work, and more likely to get financial loans.  Supporting any system that furthers the idea of light features being “better” than dark features condones all of those actions, and photoshopping darker features into lighter ones “for beauty!” is part of that.
• ^^ That’s called racism.
• No, putting brown eyes on Niall just gives Niall brown eyes. 
• Brown eyes are the genetically dominant eye color in white people just as much as they are for everyone else. 
• There is nothing you can do to Niall’s eyes that is the same or equivocal to whitewashing Zayn by giving him blue eyes. 
• Niall is white.  The only thing you can do offensively to Niall is to put him in blackface, and that is still being offensive to people of color, not to white people or to Niall.
• Even white people have more people with brown eyes than blue.  It’s the dominant eye color.  White people, also, are coached through the Western beauty ideal that blue-eyed white people are inherently more attractive than brown-eyed white people.  It is equally untrue in white people, and no matter who you are, getting told your eyes are boring or ugly because they’re brown sucks.
• It is not offensive unless the intention is to change your entire visible representation of self to look more like an oppressive race.  You cannot make white people look like a race that oppresses them because white people oppress people of color in every country where white people have colonized. 

I don’t mind at all, but really, everyone should listen to Pixie for issues like this because I am not the right person to be answering, as I am white, and can only barf up things I’ve learned and am still learning, and I can’t/do not want to speak for or over people with more authority on race-related fandom issues.

I think so, a) because Zayn has hazel eyes which are basically green, and b) the reason Harry’s eyes are a hallmark is because they’re “his mother’s eyes,” so any hazel-eyed actress as Lily would cover that issue.  And fuck, they didn’t give Harry green eyes (OR EVEN “HIS MOTHER’S EYES”) in the actual movies, so go for it!