#literally every detail about her is just.. excruciatingly playing into a really yikes stereotype

[mxbitters]

i don’t know what else to do with my time apparently (false.  i have a million things i could do with my time right now that would me much more worthwhile) so i guess now i’m making a powerpoint about the problem with trying to explain nuanced topics like racism through analogy in children’s media and i’m using goddamn my little pony out of all things as the example

#actually there are PERFECTLY good reasons for me to be using that but yeah #people simply do not acknowledge some of the uhh. earlier. episodes. and how like genuinely fucked up that was #like. okay first of all zecora um.. #like that first episode she was in? like they were definitely trying to say something but the execution and like.. #literally every detail about her is just.. excruciatingly playing into a really yikes stereotype #but like okay more relevant to my own culture i really wanna have a fucking chat with whoever came up with that buffalo episode #because they make this one episode and try and dumb it down into 'oh you have to share' like.. it's..not..that..simple.. #like hey first of all one of these horses looks way too fucking much like a certain general custer but then like.. #maybe not too analogous because of how they.. decorated.. the buffalo but like??? #instantly with the kidnapping shit it just immediately falls under the same racist bullshit p*ter p*n was doing in that way #like ok the idea of the episode is they have this migration route right?? like it's really important to them and their culture #and then ponies move in and make an apple orchard literally in the middle of aforementioned route #and the buffalo? rightfully pissed. also not fond of the train lines. REASONABLE #but it essentially results in some fucking.. pie-themed war between the buffalo and the ponies which eventually culminates in them.. #liking the pies and changing their migration route in exchange for having...pie.. #like first of all if we're going with the analogy? that could very well be a stand in for assimilation essentially #second. this..'migration route..' what's that even supposed to stand in for. sacred land??? #'oh well you're giving us this great innovative thing you created out of our sacred land we'll just make some other place sacred' i-- #it's so bad. soooo bad. #like okay in later seasons like 9??? sure. they're able to revisit a similar-ish topic with yona and the idea of cultural assimilation #but the buffalo??? here's the worst fucking messiest part. THEY NEVER SHOW UP AGAIN #like??? yeah. that episode you made was really fucked up and you were rightfully called out on it #but considering the literal role buffalo have in like my tribe's history for example??? #and the role that the mass killing of buffalo had especially back then in regard to cultural genocide??? literal genocide??? #YOU CANNOT RESOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS BY LITERALLY NEVER MAKING THE BUFFALO SHOW UP AGAIN #like oh my god #these things should be taught to kids but when you muddle things up and try and make it seem simple and like an issue of personal relationsh #relationships*??? it simplifies racism from something institutional to something you can solve in 20 minutes #it's just. complicated. i know it's a kids show and these episodes were from like 10 years ago but i'm still making the powerpoint #just to like. let it out somewhere because it's fucking irritating