That 'White Savior' wank
Apr. 23rd, 2012 02:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
transemacabreThe "Korra is a white savior in brown skin" wank in Avatar: The Last Airbender fandom just proves to me that some Social Justice Warriors are so obsessed with white people that they manage to make a fandom set in a world populated entirely by POC all about white people. It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic. And it wouldn't be so pathetic if Gisei Nashi Ni of dumbthingswhitepplsay wasn't throwing her cheap two cents in; GNN is, btw, the same person as smallblackangel who posted this breathtakingly racist rant about black people on her lj. Oh thank God GNN's here to teach us about racism, given she's such an expert!
The more amusing aspect to this wank is that the circular logic and SJW word salad ("This word means what I need it to mean! DIAF!") could be used to prove that up is down and that black is white. I could take any random bit of media and use enough buzzwords and bad tactics until I got you to believe ANYTHING.
Just to prove a point, here's my interpretation of Tupac's "Keep Ya Head Up", in the style of GNN.
In this song, Tupac displays his male privilege by speaking in positive terms about young women and single mothers, encouraging them repeatedly to "keep ya head up" and demand respect from society at large and men in particular. His justification for talking about motherhood is that he has a mother, not exactly an accomplishment on a planet inhabited by six billion people, all of whom either have or had mothers.
Pictured: THE MAN
Tupac also stole the name of Tupac Amaru, a noted Incan monarch. By stealing the name of Tupac Amaru, this so-called "Tupac" is appropriating the experience of Hispanics and monarchs.
By talking down to them in such a way, Tupac is symbolically rendering them the underclass. As young African-American women and Hispanic monarchs are coded as "the lesser", Tupac becomes the omnipresent all-knowing authority figure.
Therefore, Tupac is the White Man.
Anyone who disagrees with my thesis can step on a Lego.
The more amusing aspect to this wank is that the circular logic and SJW word salad ("This word means what I need it to mean! DIAF!") could be used to prove that up is down and that black is white. I could take any random bit of media and use enough buzzwords and bad tactics until I got you to believe ANYTHING.
Just to prove a point, here's my interpretation of Tupac's "Keep Ya Head Up", in the style of GNN.
In this song, Tupac displays his male privilege by speaking in positive terms about young women and single mothers, encouraging them repeatedly to "keep ya head up" and demand respect from society at large and men in particular. His justification for talking about motherhood is that he has a mother, not exactly an accomplishment on a planet inhabited by six billion people, all of whom either have or had mothers.
Pictured: THE MAN
Tupac also stole the name of Tupac Amaru, a noted Incan monarch. By stealing the name of Tupac Amaru, this so-called "Tupac" is appropriating the experience of Hispanics and monarchs.
By talking down to them in such a way, Tupac is symbolically rendering them the underclass. As young African-American women and Hispanic monarchs are coded as "the lesser", Tupac becomes the omnipresent all-knowing authority figure.
Therefore, Tupac is the White Man.
Anyone who disagrees with my thesis can step on a Lego.
