#criticisms are valid but i can definitely tell when some of u are borderlining racism

[sourstiless]

i just someone compare eddie’s street fighting to chimney hitting buck, saying if you forgive eddie you have to forgive chim, so i just need to say this one time and get it out of the way. you cannot compare these two situations. they are so different from each other, and i think it’s absurd to try and act like they are one in the same.

(this not to say that i think neither of them shouldn’t be forgiven. it was a rough time in both of their lives and they were struggling with their mental health. i don’t think either of them should be vilified for what happened. mental health is not black and white, and it goes along with my stance that society has a gross habit only supporting people who struggle with mental health if their struggles and their reactions to those struggles fit into this box that they’ve curated.)

that being said, the situations on which these events happened are so different, and the context really does matter. as wrong as it is for both them to have resorted to physical violence, and hurting other people to express their anger, in eddie’s case, both parties were consenting to being in a fight. both parties knew what they were getting into, and they were expecting to take hits. not to mention, these people were strangers. they did not consider each other family, they did not have any personal relationships with each other. that does not excuse being violent, but it does make it easier for the audience to accept because they don’t have close connections. we did not know these people eddie was fighting, so it made it easier to move on from. eddie also got closure. we got to see him fully understand how bad it had gotten, fully understand the consequences of what he was doing. we saw him heal.

in chimney and buck’s case, buck was trying to fulfill his promise to his older sister. someone who took care him and loved him when no one else did. someone he fully trusts and loves. someone he admires and looks up to, and even loyal to a fault to. so when he explains this to chimney, he fully assumed that chimney would understand because chimney also knows maddie. maddie is his family, and with that, so is buck. way back in s4x05, buck even tells chimney that maddie puts people in tough spots and he understands why chimney didn’t tell him about his brother. he thought chimney would understand that, he was not expecting to get hit. he was not expecting someone he loves and considered family to get physically violent with him. he did not consent to that. and because these are two characters we all fell in love with, and because we saw how close they have become over the years and how they view each other as family, it makes it that much harder to accept that they would ever lay hands on each other.

buck and chimney never got onscreen closure. we never saw a reconciliation between them. a talk where they both got to air their grievances, and come to a mutual understanding. we never got chimney apologizing for hitting buck, or really seeing the consequences of his actions. we never even got a scene of maddie and chimney talking it out, or maddie explaining that it wasn’t really buck’s fault, and that she had asked him not to say anything. it was all resolved off screen, and the audience was forced to accept that it was over, that they settled it, with no real tangible resolution.

it’s not because people are “babying buck”. people would have been upset had chim hit any of the 118, because we see these characters as a family, and it hurts to see a family who we all know love and cherish one another, hurt each other. these situations are not the same, and to treat them as such shows a complete fundamental lack of understanding. neither character should be vilified for that, again. if you are vilifying them, i also think that demonstrates a lack of understanding, but they just cannot be compared. at least not in the way that people are trying to compare them.

#anyway #that’s all that’s the post #not here to argue #if u wanna have a civil discussion i am open to it #but im probably not gonna change my opinion #i strongly believe in this #i still love chim and eddie tho #and i do not support y’all vilifying them #ESPECIALLY since they are both minorities #criticisms are valid but i can definitely tell when some of u are borderlining racism #there is no reason to vilify minorities for a white man :)))) #evan buckley #eddie diaz #chimney han #911