the only upside to people being racist is it will always ruin their art
sometimes its not right off the bat and sometimes not in a way you see for a minute
this post is about Sinners but also any other time a piece of media requires some Black authenticity that nonBlack people pretend is negotiable
you know when you are reading a good novel and something just comes off super wrong and before you know it you've put the book down and are googling their name to confirm, yep, they've got some weird social hang up or hatred
people who ignore the truth of the world end up with a lot lacking in their overall range. And the biggest example of this is how many people have destroyed their own legacy with their own hatred. we will always remember lovecraft for naming his cat the hard r slur when we approach his horror genre. every part of the book dune that is good comes from the writer and is wife and every part that sucks can directly be called homophobic, racist, or sexist. Like even if we didn't label them, the writers social failings show up in their work. everything I've ever learned about harry potter has been against my will but damn every issues she has in real life is telegraphed in her choices.
like you can go back and see how people's lack of intersectionaly set them up for embarrassment or how their lack of genuine love shows up. my brain is thinking on the white people make a book that has a Black character and the design is just offensive. Like they just failed, they did such a bad job but somehow they are shocked and offended. Children's books with Black little kids have struck me as so uncomfortable Ive dropped them and check the artist or writer and every time its a white artist. (Ive also been wrong, hope that helps its just about responding to the problem seriously not being perfect) Mind you, im just mixed, and the comments you can find for the book online will be Black ppl explaining this yet every white person is responding like this has never happened in all time. There just wasn't an honest effort to even respect Black ppl in the first place but the reaction will defensive for sure.
So yeah, everything has context but you CAN do whatever you want. I just know the people who are flooding tumblr with art of just the white vampire from Sinners are gonna crash out in five years when they dont understand why their pieces are unreadable to their desired audience and the only ppl who consistently engage with them are louder about their hateful views in the comments. What people allow in their comments is a reflection of what they really care about and it usually just holds true.
Like yeah sure you can but its weird and absolutely says something about your relationship with race. I'll tell you for free Michael B Jordan is too attractive for you to pretend you can't horn dog over anyone else and there are simply too many other good vampires. For this particular case, the hold onto rimmrick is mostly a reactionary one from people who are triggered when they are told no. The vampires in Sinners have a very clear parallel to violence and oppression that is not subjective. Some Black people have expressed clear discomfort with the focus of rimmrick in all spaces of the fandom and even uses of him being shipped. It is an effortless fix to make rimmrick content only show in spaces that ask for it but people will demand to have access to the shared space while refusing to care about the other voices in the group because they are used to being allowed to speak over them.
Let me help you out here. If you, in any vast fan fiction context, make Annie engage with vampires romantically you've taken her so far out of character you are just desperate. She is the lens of the movie that directly tells us how it works and directly expresses that it would keep her from her most important goal of rejoining her loss child. It doesnt matter if you think its hot, Sammie being bitten means his soul is enslaved forever by the rules the movie set up and that is clearly a punishment worse than death for all of the Black characters. Enslaving Sammie and calling it hot vampire art despite that being the central conflict and it never once being separated from racism is a choice you'll cringe about later. This is your hetalia. It's that obviously weird what you are doing. Not every negative reaction is someone picking on you.
You can play dumb and say its fiction and you're allowed blah blah, whatever dumb all catching absolutely statement you choose. (So I can't draw hot vampires anymore ? So I can't be attracted to- you dont care about Black people feeling safe no matter how much they tell you they need it. Just accept that about yourself and spare us the show)
I am not sitting higher than anyone on any morals I write dead dove cartoon porn online I get it. its never been okay to throw dark fetish shit in the mainstream spaces and pretending you dont see it as a valid trigger is racist. This isnt a "fandom" thing this is people who admit to having no ethos on the topic of racism to begin with being defensive and wrong about racism. A good portion of these fan fictions you guys keep throwing into the tiny spaces meant just for Annie that make her romantic with the vampires are just race play. And thats not like a passive thing you can just do to your brain hello. And if you are about to tell me it is not race play you better be able to define the words race, culture, ethnicity, and nationality comfortably and with the ability to utilize them or else you dont even understand enough to speak on these topics. I do not understand why people feel so comfortable saying their opinion on racism and then just saying shit like "well no one every told me" later in the debate. You shouldn't have acted like you had the same right to the discourse just because you were pissed off , some topics must be talked about with care and respect or you are participating in causing harm.
people who wouldn't be comfortable talking to a Black person in a Walmart will swear they have every right to their culture if they decide they want it. This is often an issue where Black culture is treated like it isnt real but it's also just mean spirited and classic aggressive white people bullying. We've seen a million times online where a group is told, hey thats racist and like clockwork they double down. If they can pretend any negative response is discourse enough other white ppl won't even engage and then they just get to have way with the space.
People can't go to the Sinners community and see random people begging to fuck a caricature , desperate to ignore the much MUCH M U C H hotter Black vampire, and read fanfics that puts the Black characters in love with their literal killers and oppressors (this isnt debatable the movie is very clear) and keep returning there.
But like I said, people will do what they want and they'll play stupid and tell themselves its really just unfair people won't let them be happy for no reason whine whine whine
and then inevitably, you'll see them spiral out at some point. putting yourself in a position where you have to keep telling yourself you aren't racist or you dont care trains you not to listen, not to notice, and not to understand. So you'll keep making art that lacks meaningful culture and one day when you make something that really matters to you that little bullshit you kept letting slide gets in there too and it RUINS your art and further pigeons you into a narrow set of behaviors.
So, karma or whatever I guess
