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Apr. 12th, 2022 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anghrainecontinentwank + further bad ROP takes
There are some white western Europeans on my dash who are like ... oh, casting POC in the production just smacks of American tokenism, and they confidently deliver their important white western European opinions on the actors' hair, and "of course the Americans will fall for it so they don't look racist" blahblah.
Obviously Amazon's approach is not above criticism (much less Amazon itself), and I know random US Americans can be obnoxious as fuck and there are many horrible aspects to our culture and US centrism is a thing etc. But sometimes, it really does seem like people believe that attaching "American" to their arguments magically makes them not racist. And they're so incredibly assured about the correctness of their arguments and the urgency of delivering them, when it would cost nothing to just ... confine themselves to complaining about Elrond's ambition or the Fëanorian star or whatever the hell.
There are some white western Europeans on my dash who are like ... oh, casting POC in the production just smacks of American tokenism, and they confidently deliver their important white western European opinions on the actors' hair, and "of course the Americans will fall for it so they don't look racist" blahblah.
Obviously Amazon's approach is not above criticism (much less Amazon itself), and I know random US Americans can be obnoxious as fuck and there are many horrible aspects to our culture and US centrism is a thing etc. But sometimes, it really does seem like people believe that attaching "American" to their arguments magically makes them not racist. And they're so incredibly assured about the correctness of their arguments and the urgency of delivering them, when it would cost nothing to just ... confine themselves to complaining about Elrond's ambition or the Fëanorian star or whatever the hell.