if i see one more fucking ‘reject modernity embrace tradition’ meme i’m going to lose my shit
it costs literally $0 to give a fuck about jewish people and not use fucking nazi slogans as ‘memes’
just don’t say nazi shit. it’s easy. think about this: will not saying nazi shit have an adverse impact on my quality of life? if the answer is yes, then you’re probably a nazi. if the answer is no, then you can stop it and easily make the world a safer and more comfortable place
I had no idea this meme is a fascist dogwhistle thing. But I looked it up and it’s clearly a thing fascists like, taken from the first two definitions of fascism by Umberto Eco, who lived under Mussolini’s fascist reign:
The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
Anyways, take a look at my Ironwood fanartist journey ;) I have drawn almost 250 pieces of fanarts for Ironwood within 4 years. There’s a lot more but tumblr can’t load all of them so take a look at some fanarts.
And to absolutely no one’s surprise, the cowardly anonymous art-thief has resorted to easily-disproven laughably stupid lies in their desperation to cling to their self-awarded “Good Person” status, despite all the, you know, art-theft and harassment, and to also pretend that you “deserved” it by slinging random accusations of bigotry
This is a common tactic of the modern cyberbully: they will do something that every decent human being knows to be unequivocally wrong (in this case, steal your art to make fun of you and then brazenly tell you that they’re allowed to do it because they don’t like you) and then when they get called out for it, they lose their fucking shit pissed off that their victims pointed out their inappropriate behavior, dig their heels into the dirt, and look wildly around for something they can use to try to pretend they had the high-ground (in this case, randomly lie that you’re “ableist” even though it’s so hilariously untrue that it just makes them look like an idiot on top of a jerk)
The logic is: “Bigots deserve to be bullied, so if I pretend this person is a bigot, then it retroactively justifies my past choices to bully them, and then I can continue pretending to be a good person and no one will be mad at me for bullying that person!!!”
This of course rarely works. Like I’m sure that this person’s little besties will assure them that they did absolutely nothing wrong and we’re all just Big Ol’ Meanies for making them feel bad and huwting their widdle feewings when all they did was steal somebody’s art to make fun of them and then harass them when they found out about it uwu they’re totally still a good person!!!
But everyone involved knows it’s a lie lmao
I hope Nonnie has insomnia tonight, preoccupied with thinking about what they’ve done, and then I hope tomorrow they choose to be better.
I mean, I seriously doubt it lmao. They’ll probably just start belligerently roaring to themselves that they ARE a good person and WE’RE the mean bullies and omg how can we be so cruel about a silly little thing like art theft and harassment and cyberbullying??? Everyone knows that the thief/harasser/bully is always the good guy, right???
Hey remember when they found over 200 bodies of native children buried behind a residential school and the world cared for… what, a week?
They’ve counted about 6,000-7,000 now, for those of you who do still care
It should NOT fall on Indigenous people’s shoulders to keep this known still. We’ve been doing that for generations at this point and NO ONE wants to listen to us.
We’re tired, mourning and constantly reopening our trauma and pain to keep people caring about us. It’s terrible.
I should start by noting that I am white, and not Canadian, and that if op wants me to remove this comment for any reason, please let me know.
This is a map of all the residential schools in Canada:
Each dot on this map represents a residential school. Blue dots mean the school is considered completely searched. Yellow dots mean they are either in the process of being searched or there are plans to be searched. Red dots indicate that no search has happened and that no search is currently planned
There were more than 130 residential schools in Canada. This map suggests that only six have been fully searched, and a little more than a dozen partially searched (I counted 15 yellow dots). That leaves at least 109 schools completely untouched.
Let that sink in; if 6,000-7,000 unmarked, indigenous children’s graves were found by searching less than a fifth of all the schools, how many are still undiscovered.
Wikipedia estimates that the body count could be over 50,000, and honestly, that could be a low estimate
[ID: A map of Canada with dozens of dots on it, 6 of which are blue and 7 of which are yellow; the rest are red. Later there is a screenshot from wikipedia reading, “Estimates range from 3,200 to over 50,000 children that were killed. Most of the recorded student deaths at residential schools took place before the 1950s. /end ID]
The residential school system was a calculated, open, and forthrightly declared attempt at the total genocide of all indigenous peoples in this country. It was literally meant to wipe them out entirely, through a combination of attrition and assimilation.
Never forget that this is what Canada is really built upon.
been seeing recently that Adam Taurus’ allusion is Gaston from Beauty and the Beast and I’m like, huh? why? that doesn’t make any sense to me.
His name is Adam, that was the prince-turned-beast’s name. he has a red theme, probably because before the beast gets all gussied up for Belle he just wore a red cloak. his emblem is THE ENCHANTED ROSE, why would his allusion be Gaston? seems to be real reach-y to me because fndm wants to hate him so bad so he can’t have an allusion to a redeemable character, he’s got to be Gaston.
oh, and then BLAKE can be the beast, and YANG can be the beauty, thanks bee shippers, for another take that makes no sense. Blake’s allusion is Belle! The Beauty! From Beauty and the Beast! because she’s BELLadonna, she has a love of reading. and Adam is the godsdamed beast! Yang is fucking Goldilocks!
additionally, why would you say that Blake is the beast? like she has to be redeemed of her monsterous-ness? where? just seems like another way to make yang her savior when she doesn’t really need one.
anyways I’m going to bed. as always, if you don’t like my angry thoughts on this, you can keep scrolling for free! I don’t want to engage with you!
You encountered the problem. You see, the FNDM wants this allusion of theirs to be right because… Gaston is a villain… Thats it… Thats what they care about.
In reality, all characters involved with BB could be and have allusions to all characters, both in song and other aspects.
The point is, that to the FNDM these allusions dont have to make sense, all they have to do is support their narrative. And half of the people who talk about BB have not even read any of the tales.
According to the wiki it states that Adam does take inspiration from beauty and the beast apparently from Gaston
Correct, the same applies to nearly all characters involved with Blake. Blake for example has elements from Belle, but then in the song “Red like Roses” is also refered to as a beast.
I seriously hate how people in the RWBY FNDM take the allusions seriously. While they can make for good references and trivia, their symbolic meanings are usually too overstated.
the wiki itself is also fan made, there’s very little confirmation in allusions because half of the characters don’t even have them. the wiki even posits things like “quasimodo as yatsuhashi’s allusion” which really just shows that this is personal interpretation: not actual canonical fact.
there’s also just something about people being very desperate to make an in universe’ minority’s allusion the majority oppressor in not even the “main” version of the fairytale. it sets my teeth on edge lol, but i’ve already gone in depth before about how adam is the beast, not gaston & also how blake is the least applicable to her allusion out of them all as belle. 😔
adam taurus’ allusion: or in longform, stop assigning him to gaston when he is very clearly the beast & has been from day one. brought to you by thee local adam whore.
beneath the cut will be a breakdown of points i believe support the beast as adam’s sole allusion & why instances of gaston can be chalked up to either a misreading of the narrative or just traits that are too generalized to be applicable to solely adam. this will be a compilation of mainly canonical evidence alongside my own personal interpretation. plus, pretty pictures.
The RWBY fandoms treatment of Adam makes me very uncomfortable
This is very long sorry I was rambling <3
There’s something really odd about the dedication RWBY fans have to hating Adam. So much so that they’ll admit the writing of the WF is racist but refuse to admit that Adam a member of the white fang also suffered from that racist writing.
There’s this weird dedication to pretending there are no problems with the choices made around Adams character and vilifying literally everyone who tries to talk about it, for the sake of continuing to blindly hate him. The fandom seems to struggle with understanding that the show is fictional and everything that happens in it is a direct choice of its writers. Y’all talk about Adam like he is a real person who has personally offended you irl. Just a huge lack of media literacy tbh.
A white man wrote a civil rights group, that he admittedly based off the black panthers, as the generic bad guys of his shitty anime knockoff and made a central theme of the show the idea that fighting against your oppression violently makes you just as bad if not worse than your oppressors. Then he mad the leader of that group a generic abusive meanie bad guy. Who essentially is what white supremacists think civil rights activist are all the way down to being the fictional equivalent of a black supremacist.
When there was backlash to this he made a knockoff Malcom X and then killed her in her only scene and made a character whose ideology is basically sit down and lick the feet of your oppressors and had the audacity to say he was based off of MLK. How the fuck do you base a character off of somebody without doing basic research on them because contrary to what people seem to believe MLK was not a doormat and this is a conversation for a different day but I’m sick and tired of his memory being weaponised against black people.
What’s worse is that Adam is the only character portrayed as actually doing something to fight racism. Ghira’s faction is only ever seen fighting against other groups. I don’t know if y’all know this but that’s not how the civil rights movement worked. Most of the leaders didn’t agree on methods but they coexisted because the main goal was the liberation of black people and they knew they had to coexist. MLK did not go around calling the cops on revolutionaries he disagreed with.
The problems with Adam and the WF are not separate and cannot be. Most of what’s wrong with the Faunus plot line is the way the show handles Adam. The choices made with his writing cannot be separated from those they made with the WF overall. Adams choice to kill his attackers to keep himself and other Faunus safe, from people literally trying to kill them, is treated the way it is because of the stance they took with WFs writing. When Adam kills a human supremacist trying to kill Ghira you’re supposed to see it as an extreme and the beginning of his turn to evil. Adam isn’t a real person every describe he makes is informed by the white writers of the show. Why would the bias they displayed writing the WF apply to him?
Some of you have been abused and relate to Blake in that sense, a lot of you seem to be projecting your abusers onto Adam. I’m sorry you went through that but you are not excused from buying into racist rhetoric. It’s incredibly uncomfortable as a black person to watch people talk about how “healing” it was for them to watch a civil rights leader admittedly inspired by black people slapped around and killed by two white women. It is anger inducing to watch fans celebrate “queer representation” dancing on the corpse of a monumental disrespect to black people and our history.
RWBY doesn’t even handle abuse well tbh and most of the queer rep is not that great, there are many shows that do it so much better, there is actually no excuse for hanging on to the black people are bad for fighting against racism show.
The RWBY fandoms treatment of Adam makes me very uncomfortable
Why does it make you uncomfortable that people dislike a character who a.) is an abusive, gaslighting, stalking PoS and b.) takes advantage of a well-meaning cause for his own selfish desires, to the point of happily throwing the lives of others away?
A white man wrote a civil rights group, that he admittedly based off the black panthers, as the generic bad guys of his shitty anime knockoff
The one and only reason the White Fang were ever antagonists was because of Adam’s manipulation, first with allying with Cinder and later with him usurping the White Fang in order to manipulate them into senseless violence.
made a central theme of the show the idea that fighting against your oppression violently makes you just as bad if not worse than your oppressors.
The story consistently portrays racists as bad people, and while it questions the use of terrorist tactics (and specifically that means of advocating for social change, not the act of advocating for social change whatsoever), the people who genuinely care about the cause are consistently portrayed as sympathetic people.
The only villainous characters of the White Fang are the ones who don’t follow its actual cause and beliefs. Such as the white guy you stan.
Then he mad the leader of that group a generic abusive meanie bad guy.
And here we go. Adam was never the leader of the White Fang to begin with; he only became so because he murdered the actual leader because she wouldn’t lower herself to his shitty level. You just desperately wanted one white man to be the leader of a storyline about racism.
When there was backlash to this he made a knockoff Malcom X and then killed her in her only scene
Sienna Khan was portrayed as a principled and dedicated individual who genuinely believed in the White Fang’s fight, who was respected by others even if they disagreed with the methods she advocated, and understood that senseless violence only harmed their cause.
She was specifically presented as someone who was everything Adam wasn’t, but you’re just offended that the white man wasn’t the real leader of a group that fought against racism.
made a character whose ideology is basically sit down and lick the feet of your oppressors and had the audacity to say he was based off of MLK.
So saying “try not to kill people” means bootlicking?
The fun thing about people who have this sort of attitude towards Ghira is that I can guarantee you or no one else in RWDE has the guts to actually take part in the specific kinds of acts that the story questions. Are any of you Adam stans going out and kidnapping the family members of CEOs, or burning down businesses owned by racists? Are any of you even doing anything for social causes, other than being offended about white men not being the real heroes of one single story?
What’s worse is that Adam is the only character portrayed as actually doing something to fight racism.
Nope, he’s specifically presented as the one person who doesn’t give a shit about fighting racism, especially in contrast to Ilia and Sienna. But imagine a RWDE blog thinking the white man is the only person who causes about racism and the women of colour don’t give a crap.
Ghira’s faction is only ever seen fighting against other groups.
When? Are you talking about when Adam has his followers attempt to murder Ghira and his wife, just for being Blake’s parents? Again, this is blatant projection in trying to whitewash your precious white man.
Most of the leaders didn’t agree on methods but they coexisted because the main goal was the liberation of black people and they knew they had to coexist. MLK did not go around calling the cops on revolutionaries he disagreed with.
Yeah, this is exactly how Ghira views Sienna Khan. He explicitly says that he doesn’t agree with her methods but 100% respects her dedication to the cause. Again, you’re bizarrely offended at the guy who supports the woman-of-colour leader of the White Fang for not aligning with the white man who murders said woman of colour for not being a piece of shit like Adam.
It’s incredibly uncomfortable as a black person to watch people talk about how “healing” it was for them to watch a civil rights leader admittedly inspired by black people slapped around and killed by two white women.
So here’s the mind-blowing thing.
You are genuinely offended by a storyline where one white man doesn’t give a shit about a group fighting for equality or the people they fight for. Where several PoC characters are presented as sympathetic people who genuinely believe in and fight for the cause, you care only about the one white man, even as he manipulates or even murders said women of colour for his own selfish desires.
Because it’s not about caring about racial equality, or whatever Adam stans insist. It’s that Adam stans always wanted one white man and only that one white man to be the one and only hero in a storyline about racism, because he is a white man, and adamantly refuse to accept women of colour as being better people than that one white man.
I honestly didn’t expect that last post to get this much traction, I posted it and went back on to Twitter I am used to Tumblr being like an empty void to yell into and just wanted to tell my feelings about something that has made me uncomfortable for a while.
So you can imagine my shock when I came back to a white woman lecturing me on racism and telling me, a black person attending an HBCU and studying for a major in History and a minor in African Diaspora Studies, that I don’t really care about minorities. I understand that you have gotten very comfortable saying a lot of stupid shit unchallenged in this fandom but I am not the one for this bullshit. Luckily for you, I love a good argument so here is the attention you wanted so bad.
I am generally of the belief that there is no such thing as a good racism allegory. I have never seen or heard of a well-executed one and believe that if you want to write racism (or any type of oppression) into your story, you should just do that. I have read and enjoyed fantasy novels with racism in the past (check out the Legendborn series yall), so racism allegories to me just seem like an excuse for writers to capitalize on the oppression of minorities without actually representing them, or their struggle properly. They are also a goldmine for people who lack basic media literacy or basic intelligence like you.
I understand that people might not like Adam because he is abusive and I take no issue with that. Being uncomfortable with or disliking Adam because of his abusive past with Blake is fine. I am not holding you at gunpoint and making you like him. You can dislike Adam and still acknowledge the flaws in his writing. I noticed that you specifically left out the paragraph where I acknowledged people’s feelings towards Adam coming from his canon presentation and then said that does not excuse buying into anti-black rhetoric. I hope that wasn’t intentional.
Adams in canon skin tone does not matter, so please stop harping on it. The faunus and their oppression are based on the real-life experience of black people in America, regardless of how he is drawn Adam is allegorically a person of colour, as is Blake and any other faunus in the show. The show’s choice to portray multiple faunus as white people is a flaw on the part of the crew but it doesn’t take away from my point. If we go by your logic Blake is also white as is the rest of her family, their lecturing a bunch of Faunus about how they brought their oppression upon themselves is not a good look when you consider that. This issue is part of why racism allegories don’t work, Adam is depicted as a white man but is contextually a POC, which leads to a lot of confusion in discussion and implications of things the writers might not have meant to.
I know racism is bad, and I am glad both you and Miles know that as well. I am sorry to tell you that saying racism is bad is the bare minimum. The show’s portrayal of racism is incredibly shallow. We are way past the slavery is bad part of the conversation, I am sure that would have been incredibly groundbreaking in 1834. It is clear that the writers had a whole lot of nothing to say about the topic of racism being bad and a lot to say about how much that hate revolutionaries. It is also clear that you have never read a book in your life, I suggest “By Any Means Necessary by Malcom X”.
“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.”
You spent most of your response ignoring my base point, I make it larger so that won’t happen again
ADAMS WRITING VERY CLEARLY MIRRORS RACIST STEREOTYPES ABOUT BLACK REVOLUTIONARIES MANY OF THEM FROM AS FAR BACK AS SLAVERY
All the excuses you gave for Adam being a bad person; him being abusive, out for revenge instead of equality, not really caring for his community, being a terrorist, being a faunus supremacist and reverse racist etc are real world arguments used to de legitimise black revolutionaries repeatedly even as recently as the fucking BLM movement. It is especially disrespectful when you remember that the white fang are based on the BPP a group that was successfully shut down by the government using these stereotypes. As many as 12 BPP members are still in jail and many had to flee the country to avoid jail time for “terrorism”
You also ignored my point about people bastardizing the memory of reverend king and how Ghira being a stand in for his ideology is deeply disrespectful btw. MLK beleived in peaceful revolution but he was not a doormat, he understood that violence was often necessary for the revolution and went as far as applying for a gun liscence himself when he felt his family was threatened and in danger. When he was denied he hired armed bodyguards. Ghira’s philosphy of subjecting yourself to violence in the name of being one of the good ones is a deeply stupid and racist person’s view of MLK is.
The fun thing about people who have this sort of attitude towards Ghira is that I can guarantee you or no one else in RWDE has the guts to actually take part in the specific kinds of acts that the story questions. Are any of you Adam stans going out and kidnapping the family members of CEOs, or burning down businesses owned by racists? Are any of you even doing anything for social causes, other than being offended about white men not being the real heroes of one single story?
Im going to be real with you this disrespectful shit is what prompted me to make this response, you have your head so far up your ass but that confidence only exists because you are sitting behind a screen. You are so godamn condescending talking down who someone who knows more on the subject than you do. I dare you to say this to black person irl so you can get the living shit beat out of you. You are one racist bitch, for the fucking record I do not need to be subjected to violence at the hands of the state to be upset about a white man’s racist portrayal of my race. Next time just call me a nigger white man’s whore and call it a night you miserable cunt.
In the future keep your dumbass arguments for people who do not know what the fuck they are talking about because that is certainly not me
I know we all made fun of Tom Sawyer in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie as a hot young special agent given that the timeline doesn’t add up, but consider aged, grizzled, adventurer Huck Finn, hero of the underground railroad and wanted in five states for offenses ranging from fraud to armed robbery.
