#i was actually excited to watch shadow & bone but all this anti-asian racism... i'm so tired!! i really am so tired!!!

[raisindeatre]

White people are honestly so tiring 

#i was actually excited to watch shadow & bone but all this anti-asian racism... i'm so tired!! i really am so tired!!! #like white people just CANNOT write poc. they can't! and they prove this over and over again and how many more chances must i give them #people more eloquent than me have already written about this but what was the POINT of making alina half-shu han #if all you were going to do was have the characters hurl abuse at her? #i'm genuinely so exhausted. #you CANNOT pat yourself on the back for 'introducing diversity' into a piece of media #and then immediately think 'well we NEED to be racist now as well obviously. we'll fucking die if we cannot' #like NONE of this was in the books. there was NO need for it. #the show really decided to introduce a racist subplot the minute they made a WOC their main character #like you really just could NOT let her be half-asian and have the story the way it was in the books #you just NEEDED to insult the shape of her eyes and call her 'rice-eater' #bro i am just sitting here!!! what the fuck!!! #anyway white people just cannot write poc without being racist . they can't have diversity without being racist #they CANNOT just have characters of colour without insulting them #anyway i feel like it's really telling that everyone who is gushing about s&b is white lol #i'm tired!!! i like the bits with the crows but i do not think i can watch any more of this show #it's fine if you like it but i am really begging you to be a bit more critical of the choices made in this show #and how hurtful they are to any asian people watching it #like great! you wanted to address the shortcomings of the source material as being too white. i get that. i even applaud that. #but did you NEED to put all the anti-asian elements in? think about that.