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El otro día, estaba hablando con una amiga , sobre Harry Potter, nos dimos cuenta de lo curioso, o mínimamente chistoso , que una serie que habla de racismo, y es algo importante para su tesis, y una de las motivaciones de Voldemort, estaba relacionada con el estatus de sangre (que entra en las razas de fantasía) y aún a si, no hay nadie de color en cast principal
Si, se que la autora dejo la posibilidad de que hermione fuera de color, pero ya varios fans dejaron claro que por portada , y varias descripciones del libro, hermione es blanca
Lo de Harry Potter siendo de color, también es más cosa de los fans que del libro
Supongo que ron, en algunos lugares podría ser considerado de una persona racialisada (pero en México al menos , los pelirrojos no sufren mucho de discriminación, y me atrevería a sugerir que pertenecen a la clase privilegiada), pero para ser un libro que trato de expandir sus fronteras, fuera de Reino Unido, como lo fueron las películas de animales fantásticos
El hecho de que sus protagonistas, sigan siendo de las razas privilegiadas, en la mayoría de países, mientras los personajes que en la mayoría de países, sufrirían por el trato histórico a su raza (en México veras más racismo a las personas negras , que pelirrojas , por ejemplo), solo se quedan de fondo, mientras sigue con sus supuesta tesis de tolerancia...se me hace cuando mínimo curioso
This- this is SO true
important!!!
transcript:
A person with a somewhat masculine voice says in a higher pitched tone, “Blue hair is weird!” They then change their voice to their regular tone, and say, “I’m gonna teach you this how I would teach a child. I don’t know your life story, but for the sake of making this an educational video, I’m gonna use stereotypes, so only take what resonates with you.
One child is born in a seemingly functional, to their awareness, loving family, while the other is getting quite the opposite. You can’t choose that you’re born with it, so you’re put out in this world and the majority of your peers are like you, and the majority of your teachers, parents and authority are like you, and the majority of the media out there is showing people like you. So all of the kids that are not depicted by this media feel erased and different immediately from the time they’re born, how they are born. You may feel too feminine as a boy, too masculine as a girl, like you’re in the wrong body, like you don’t think exactly neurotypically as everyone else, you’re too thin, you’re too thick, you’re too dark, you’re not dark enough. Kids like this immediately understand the struggle of not being accepted by the majority, and if it’s not the peers doing it, keep in mind they have the same authority and media only depicting the majority of one type of person.
So both the outcasts and the masses are gonna ask the same question of how do I fit into society, and the majority of the authority and media is gonna be saying things like “God is the answer,” “man marries woman,” “girls are this way, boys this way.” You have a set amount of rules that if you have no reason to question, you’re not gonna disagree with. But when this world has taught you it’s not for people like you, you’re gonna ask, “why is it that way?” which brings us to, “who is teaching us this?” Oh, people from this era or earlier, who’s making this stuff, people in this era or earlier, “Let me do my research on who taught them that stuff.”
A common flaw with human beings is that they accept societal norms that are only in place for a little bit over their lifetime because they never lived to see a reason to question it. When you are born in a world that’s seemingly against you, you have reason to research why these traditions are in place, and you say, “Wow, if I happened to be born in the 1900s, pink was for boys and blue was for girls, and cheerleading is for boys and heels are for men, and the bible was changed to be anti-gay”. It’s almost like what we are taught is unreliable and not inherently factual, and in the time this was being taught, no one in the masses was disagreeing.
Everyone’s born in a box, but we weren’t all born with default settings, so we learned that humans can express themselves however they want. The way you think that only natural hair colors is normal, or how you dress is the right way, or blue hair automatically makes you weird, or pronouns equals liberal, that is taught to you. If this existed in the 1900s, this would be awesome [he points at blue hair], and this would just be english language [he points at pronouns]. When you’re wildly accepted by the masses, I see why you wouldn’t want to step down, you’re at the top of the pyramid. But the reason that we dye our hair blue is that the only people that wildly accepted us are other people who weren’t afraid of being different.
Now listen, maybe you just like authentically being a part of the masses, maybe your true self likes this stuff, that’s fine. But you also have to acknowledge that you were taught to avoid anything that would get you bullied or a negative reaction by the masses. So therefore, who’s really the top of the pyramid? [He flips the pyramid drawing upside-down].”
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(My first person of color,I hope I did him right!) This nerdy guy right here is named Booker and he likes to watch anime,read manga, Wright,go to church and draw.He’s a good student that gets A’s and B’s.He keeps a pencil(and other random school supplies)in his hair. God, I just love him,he’s just so cute!!! I tried to choose the most natural color for him and I think it looks good. I recently sold this guy so he’s not mine anymore but I’m going to keep him up because I still like him
This is not harmful to white representation, but it is certainly harmful to colored representation. There are far more white characters than there are colored characters. But casting a black character in the place of a white character is harmful: You are not creating an original coloured character, you are simply recasting a coloured individual in a character written with a white individual in mind. How many lead colored characters exist with comparison to white ones?
not to be that one person but casting a colored character in the place previously held by a white person isn't progressive. it's a deliberate cash grab. remakes, unnecessary sequels, and new spinoffs for characters are prone to flop. To make as much money as possible, they cast colored people in the shoes of white people. The result is widespread applause and rage on social media, which does the marketing. People who initiate boycotts inadvertently cause others to watch the show out of curiosity, and people who hail the 'progressive politics' of the show on social media influence others with similar values to watch the show.
not to be that one person but casting a colored actor in the role of a white character previously played by a white person isn't progressive. it's a deliberate cash grab. remakes, unnecessary sequels, and new spinoffs for characters are prone to flop. To make as much money as possible, they cast colored people in the shoes of white people. The result is widespread applause and rage on social media, which does the marketing. People who initiate boycotts inadvertently cause others to watch the show out of curiosity, and people who hail the 'progressive politics' of the show on social media influence others with similar values to watch the show.
Reblog if you hate picrews with no dark skin options (yes even the ones where the shade of white is even a little darker, and yes ashy tones too bc there SUPER annoying, and the ones with no curly or protective hair like braids)