#shows approach to justice just get countered with ‘but RS is jewish’.

[falinscloaca]

pisses me off so much much that i’m not immune to people arguing about steven universe

#what is it about that g-dforsaken cartoon that makes my bones weep for blood #its like. the perfect combination of well intentioned progressive storytelling bungled themes antiblackness fandom culture and shipping bul #bullshit queer community physiology kids show and actually-good-except-all-the-bad-parts #anyways any defense of the show that starts with ‘lily orchard is full of shit huh’ immedialy into the trash you fucking go #not all criticism of the fucking thing stemmed from one annoying youtube skank. people have been hypercritical of SU since before that vide #was a glimmer in orchard’s eye - people have been making great and godawful points about it since steven fucking two #STEVEN TWO?!? #SEASON #like some points made against it ARE bullshit! but not all of them! and when real life seems to have spat out a few strawmen for yall to ar #argue against you’ll never make actual progress on the genuine fucking issues people have on it! its useless! #also it really irritates me that bc some people escalated criticisms of the diamonds to ‘su condones nazi redemption’ all responses to the #shows approach to justice just get countered with ‘but RS is jewish’. #like YEAH and actually her jewishness does inform the shows approach to justice abd punishment but that doesn’t make the end result GOOD #also judaism isn’t. spiritually speaking. 100% about reform and self-reflection rather than christian damnation barbarity or whatever #there is in fact harder edges to our shit its just unlikely steven universe would include WD getting hanged along with all her sons orchang #changing her mind at the last second because she hasn’t earned an uncomplicated admittance of fault and she sends and army after the #escaping stevenites only for said army to get drowned alive as the sea closes around them #lol #(or that it SHOULD have #imo while the diamonds did escape proper justice from just a tonal and like. thematic cohesion standpoint a violent execution of the #dictatorial class really would NOOOOT fit the show in any sense)