#but hes literally being misinterpreted so badly when his stance is the same as a lot of other fans of colour

[thetransguard]

Saw your posts about Anthony Mackie. Can you please explain what's going on? I don't really ship Sam and Bucky and I'm not the best at keeping up with drama in the Marvel fandom. What happened?

basically variety interviewed anthony mackie and asked him about sam and bucky (the ship) and he said that he doesnt ship them. which is well within his rights to do lmao??? and he said a bunch of other stuff too which tbh he was 100% right about (how ppl fetishize men in mlm relationships (ESP men of colour ESP Black men) how right now the current status quo is to tokenize queer relationships but never actually commit faithfully to actual rep etc etc) and compound that variety took. all of his reasonable statements and kind of just smashed it together in the headline etc to make it look like he said that gay ships are inherently fetishistic and bad.

and white marvel twitter (and some of u on tumblr) have decided because of this its open season #anthonymackieiscancelled2021 which. is so embarrassing it takes what. one interview headline for you to show ur true colours? this man has consistently and openly supported the lgbt+ community he's been a fantastic fucking ally for years and years and the moment you are able to misconstrue his words for shock value you turn your back on him. it's literally not what he meant and you are all too eager to condemn this man. dont think we forgot that random unwarranted post last month where someone was like i think anthony mackie is homophobic because "he gives off those vibes" or something. we all know what "those vibes" mean for u

also to the "its not about race" crowd. its always about fucking race you people just think white = default so you can put blm in your bio but refuse to address your own obvious antiblackness. embarrassing

EDIT: theres some more contextual information under the cut ik this has been reblogged a bunch but yeah

i'd also like to point out quickly that i'm nonblack so a lot of what i've said here is my own personal extrapolation of the situation + of what other queer poc have been discussing for the past day

creds to kit from the MYSU server

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someone transcribed the actual interview without the bullshit editing variety put in to make him look bad

#anthony mackie #sambucky #tagging this for later #sorry i got heated but im genuinely kind of upset on behalf of this guy and im not usually down to root for celebs #but hes literally being misinterpreted so badly when his stance is the same as a lot of other fans of colour #the hypothetical u in this statement is not actually You anon im kind of just mad rn #i have shit to do though so. ill take my leave here #ask #reply #anonymous #antiblackness tw #q slur tw