uselessgaywhovian:

#THIS IS THE PROBLEM #this is so important ok #the jedi wouldn’t let this boy be angry #grown up a slave and taken from his mother and put into a deeply oppressive environment where hes taught that anger is the path to evil #when of course hes angry look at what he had to deal with #the jedi deeply fucked up anakin skywalker #most jedi arrived at the school when they were barely more than babies #but anakin remembers tattooine and he remembers his mother #the jedi didn’t let anakin work through that anger #they were so scared of the dark side they didn’t care about how not learning to understand his anger was messing anakin up #they wanted ‘balance’ #which means understanding the light AND the dark #like the grey jedi do #they thought anakin would bring it #but they wouldn’t teach anakin about it bc they were too damn scared of it #and in the end it destroyed them #the jedi were not infallible and they were as much to blame for anakins fall to the dark side as palpatine #tp (tags via @organasrey)

Whitewashing Defenders’ Greatest Hits

reverseracism:

“If you have to have someone who looks like you in the media in order for you to relate then maybe you’re the one who’s racist”

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“children don’t see/care about race”

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“Color doesn’t matter! It’s about the actor/story!”

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“there are bigger issues to talk about than representation”

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“they whitewashed because they need to make a profit and attract their target audience”

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“historical accuracy”

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“It’s a European fairytale/story so of course the characters will be white!“ 

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(Because it’s not like the setting could change and adapt to the story)

“whitewashing isn’t real”

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“they considered and picked the best actor for the job”

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(The best actor? More like the best we can do at this time.)

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(It’s not the best actor when you exclude a racially ambiguous role to one race.)

“why do we need minorities in European stories!? they wouldn’t do a story about Africa with white actors!”

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“Maybe they didn’t cast an actor of color because they didn’t auditioned!”

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“why do we need minorities in settings that don’t make sense!? you don’t see white people being placed in stories and setting with a non-white majority!” 

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Bringing this back