Reblogged
Reasons Why Fans of Color Leave/Don’t Interact with Fandom
- Casual racism that is brushed off as “an innocent mistake” or “they didn’t mean it” and then everyone pretending like it didn’t happen and moving on with their day (repeat)
- Speaking over fans of color about issues that pertain to them specifically
- When fans of color speak out about something that makes them uncomfortable or why that don’t interact with it (usually because of the racial/ethnic bias) they are accused of being anti’s or pro-censorship
- Characters of color being used as scapegoats/bashed/plot devices
- Characters of color never getting happy endings/real development
- Backlash against characters of color if they do anything other than be a white character’s side kick/best friend
- Actors of characters of color being harassed for something their character did or didn’t do
- White characters/actors getting all the attention/credit despite the fact that they are a side character to a POC or on the same level as the POC
- Fanfic authors patting themselves on the back for writing a “realistic” character of color and it’s just a bunch of stereotypes
- Being told that they should be happy they were even included when they call out the above people
- White fans crying about persecution/exclusion because their fav character/trope/kink/ship isn’t loved by all
- Fan artists re-imaging characters of color as white/lightening skin tone
- Everyone rushing to a white fans defense after a well deserved call out while the fan of color receives hate
- Never having a safe fandom space and always having to be on guard with new people/fandoms/chats etc because they’ve been burned before
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