#white saviourism

[hussyknee]

- Getting Eaten Alive by Tandrelmairon

#sometimes a piece of writing from a fic hits you in the solar plexus #and then half the posts on your dash makes you remember it #again and again #truth and sources before ideology #truth before your political positions #truth is blunt and messy and will not conform to the things you believe #INTERROGATE YOUR SOURCES AND YOUR BIASES FIRST YOU DICKHEADS #so much of Western leftism is just rejecting American govt propaganda and making up or buying into someone else's instead #you have no idea how hostile your Western leftist ideologues are to Eastern and Global South people #who have lived the reality of your shiny ideas #how you drown us out or contort our experiences and needs to fit your own narratives #it's all for the activism club #not for us #social justice #leftism #anti communism #imperialism #white saviourism #activism #superman #lois lane #clois #dcu #fanfiction #knee of huss

[revginapond]

I have one post to make about the I/P conflict:

Please read more than US news sources. Sure, outside news sources are also biased, but the US Culture Filter that US news uses IS NOT one-size-fits-all.

As an expat, I keep trying to tell folks that you can't overlay US culture and morals over other cultures. There's a LOT more to this conflict than a binary good vs. evil. Don't get me wrong, lots of evil going on here and it's heartbreaking, but if you believe it's just Muslim vs. Jew, you're not getting the whole picture. Please educate yourselves and try not to demonize one side or the other based on US morals and puritanical Christian lenses (and don't tell me you don't because we're all raised with it... like most systemic BS). There are a lot of civilians, Jew, Muslim, and Christian (did you forget about the Arab Christians?) that are against this war, here and abroad, and are scared right now because of anti-Jew and anti-Muslim sentiment, even from people who should know better.

How do we fix this? I don't know, because compassion for other humans is in short supply these days. There's enough hatred both on the extreme left and extreme right, and even some in the middle that it makes me, a pastor, want to scream.

All I can do is remind folks that compassion, love, and forgiveness are 3 different things, and that compassion for other humans doesn't necessarily mean you have to love or forgive them, or demonize whole groups of people. There are plenty of governments and government officials you can rant about without demonizing groups as a whole.

I hope this make some sense, and this is the first and last thing I'll be writing about this. Take a breath and think a minute before you @ me as well. There's already enough drama out there...

#israel #palestine #gaza #US morals aren't one size fits all #read news from outside the US #read news outside of Europe #you cannot overlay US cutlure on other cutlures #white saviourism #white savior complex #white saviorism #think before you speak

[browngirlmiscellaneous]

I need white people to stop making “where can I adopt a child” posts whenever there’s a war or tragedy in the global south. We don’t need white people, of all people, to take these children away from their countries, culture, and heritage. Go adopt children from your own country. We don’t need that white saviour complex bullshit here.

#Palestine #free Palestine #gaza #free gaza #white saviour compelx

[misspoken-pea]

I feel like if humans came into contact and formed alliances with aliens and the aliens discover “humans are space orcs” on tumblr, they will share the same reaction we do to flat-earthers.

That’s it. That’s my ted talk.

#earth is space australia #earth is a deathworld #humans are space orcs #humans are weird #I swear I really like this tumblr section #it’s just that I gives me white-saviour vibes with some of these posts #like not literally but y’all get it #human arrogance #why are we always the superior species #when there are possibly millions of life on millions of planets #just why man #shut up pea-se

[ppaleoartistgallery]

Paleostream 30/12/2023

results of today's Paleostream, and the last sketches of the year!

today we drew Protobalistium, Ikrandraco, Yanchuanosaurus, and Jeholops

#Paleostream #paleoart #paleontology #digital art #artists on tumblr #digital artwork #palaeoart #digital illustration #sciart #dinosaur #Protobalistium #Ikrandraco #Yanchuanosaurus #Jeholops #RAAHHH AVATAR MENTIONED WHAT THE FUCK IS A NON-WHITE SAVIOUR PLOT #id in alt text

[lalixlizzie]

Emma: Why are you so mad at me? Is it because I slept with Regina?

Snow: YOU WHAT?

Emma: Fuck, it wasn’t that.

#emma x regina #regina x emma #emma swan #incorrect ouat quotes #ouat #ouat fandom #ouat humor #ouat incorrect quotes #regina mills #evil queen #the evil queen #the savior #the saviour #once upon a time #snow white #ouat snow white #mary margaret blanchard #incorrect quotes #swanqueen

[majorbaby]

And when you meet people, don't look down. Look them in the eye. And don't back off.

#mash #m*a*s*h #oliver jones #young hi #s01e05: the moose #i appreciate this episode has a lot of issues - the white saviourism is glaring #but oliver telling her not to cower away from people is important to ME #and since we have this episode i'd rather have this moment than not #also the moose > the tooth shall set you free (the other glaring white saviour episode) #and of course just. oliver <3 <3 <3 #majorbaby.gif

[schnellertod]

sky-high

#fan art #disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #artists on tumblr #it's the fact that he is the only one character who has white circle resembling halo in avatar #for me #like saviour imagery for harry???

[1899sbiggestbabygirl]

I want to expand on this idea in the future:

Dutch Van der Linde is the perfect analogy for the white saviour.

He presents himself as someone who believes in equality; however, he uses his progressive stand views as long as it's rewarded with praise, his support is very minimal (basically not being overtly racist) and receives praise over it, but is willing to overlook racism if it benefits him ( him letting Micah stay in the gang), his views are literally based on a privileged man pretending to understand the oppressed (Evelyn Miller, Lenny calls him out on this), he pretends to care and empathize with the structures of oppression but is very willing to exploit them anyways (the whole thing with the wapiti tribe).

at his core I think Dutch would see himself as a saviour -but the narrative itself shows who he really is, and what every white saviour at its core is: A fake hero.

Sure, Dutch's saviour complex and manipulation is evident with all characters, but to pretend that race or ethnicity doesn't hold a big role in how these dynamics work (especially on the time period) would be willful ignorance.

#with that being said rdr and rdr2 do have their white saviour moments #but in a way it functions more of a 'hey these guys are good despite the times' reminder than anything #rdr1 has that sherif american guy living in that mexican town... that's very white savour ish but eh... #anyways #anyone else got any ideas? #rdr2 #rdr #red dead fandom #dutch van der linde #character analysis #meta #rdr2 meta #txt

[lollytea]

Tbh I think the Barbie movie handled its theme of existentialism better than the feminism.

#the feminism of the barbie movie is nothing new #its nothing you wouldnt have seen in a 2016 tumblr post #and in its efforts to platform the struggle of misogyny it unintentionally shrinks the issue of other forms of bigotry #like it IS about a cis conventionally attractive white woman and the prejudice that she applies to her #because shes a woman. so is not on the TOP of the privilege scale and is going to face bigotry as a result #like Greta Gerwig clearly wrote what she knew #and she didnt feel she was educated enough to touch any other topics #the mistreatment of women is a layered topic and it is a complex matter depending on the varied range of women in this world #queer women trans women women of colour #they dont all experience misogyny in the same way that Barbie does #so its definitely not a very rounded discussion #like even Gloria focuses entirely on the pressure of just women in general #like you can claim that shes speaking from her own experience but. its very mouthpiece-ish #her speech is for the purpose of whacking you over the head with the film's message #yknow i think the focus leans too heavily as ''look what we as girls have in common'' #but doesnt touch enough on ''but look how we differ too.'' a balance between those two concepts would have been nice #i feel like Sasha being like ''hell yeah white saviour barbie!'' was like a lazy acknowledgement that theyre AWARE of this issue #but like. theyre too deep into the script now #anyway yeah i was just thinking about this cuz of that gifset #Barbie feeling unsafe and being objectified in a public space #while Ken faces no issues whatsoever. even tho he is a loudly colourful flamboyantly dressed man on rollerskates #because we are going for a misogyny message here. so we need to poof homophobia out of existence for a bit okay?? #like this is basically what i mean. putting misogyny under the spotlight #and as a result quietly pretending other social disadvantages dont apply right now. bending reality to reinforce the message that we want #this isnt like. a scathing criticism on barbie btw. i dont have a film critic brain #im dumb and i love everything #also im really not the person whos qualified to talk about this #this is just some word vomit because i cant stop thinking about it #anyway i think the themes of what it means to be human and live and breathe fucked royally #i loved that stuff

[potato-jem]

THE VAULT IS BEING UNLOCKED

#THANK YOU CASEY MY LORD AND SAVIOUR #red white and royal blue #rwrb #red white and royal blue movie #rwrb movie #rwrb on prime #casey mcquiston #matthew lopez #first prince #firstprince #alex claremont diaz #alexander claremont diaz #agcd #henry fox mountchristen windsor #prince henry of wales #hgejfmw #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine

[rhaenin-time]

Dany isn't a "white saviour" as we understand them in our world.

It's hard to explain so I'll leave it at this for now:

She's what a "white saviour" pictures themselves as, what they model themselves after, but she, herself, is not a "white saviour." The context needed for her to be a "white saviour" does not apply; it's debatable if it even really exists in ASOIAF.

A "white saviour" is someone who benefits from oppression, and wants a pat on the back for playing hero by "softening" that oppression for a day. The closest she gets to "white saviour" territory is actually in book 1 when she protects the women from Drogo's men. And even then, she had little agency to do anything further, was far more helpful than most "white saviours" could ever dream of, and most importantly, that's when she learns you can't hide behind small mercies in unjust systems; you need to ABOLISH the unjust systems.

If anything, her early arc is literally an anti "white saviour" arc. Because "white saviours" don't use their power to abolish unjust systems. The unjust systems are the SOURCE of their power, and they use their power to hide their complicity behind the very small mercies Dany knows to be insufficient.

#asoiaf #asoiaf meta #daenerys targeryan #daenerys stormborn #dany is not a colonizer #nor are the targaryens #yes the valyrians were #as were the andals and possibly the first men (though their history is a bit murky to judge yet) #didn't get into another brand of white saviour that tries to “save savages from themselves” by instilling the values of the colonial core #onto the people in the periphery that are oppressed by the core #because obviously that cannot really be applied in the asoiaf #post

[daenystheedreamer]

thoughts on the Dany is a colonizer crowd?

i think people like using words 😭😭 its very much an issue of like authorial intent. i know death of the author is very en vogue but i do think it is important to consider why what how who when etc and i dont think grrm intended that either from a pro- or critical stance. i think hes a well meaning but also ignorant old white american man old guard SF author who never had to consider implications. i think the portrayal of characters from essos is quite racist esp the to the point coloniser is a specific word with a specific definition which i dont think applies to dany. however i understand the like impetus, because race is so personal and if someone with connections to colonisation feels kinship or whatever with dany's story i dont think thats necessarily wrong.

okay nvm im just enjoying the sound of my own fingers tapping thebscreen so ill say in conclusion. I think the crowd specifically is perhaps just looking for reasons to hate a character and arent engaging with the text on a reasonable level however i think you can critique the series with these arguments rationally

#i think white saviour narrative is a more coherent analysis

[too-many-rooks]

baby boy in the jungle

(/tragically, not season 3)

#hey! don't watch this movie! It's very bad! And deeply white saviour-y! #alex rider #otto farrant #Edge of the World

[mysticorset]

I've been watching Shogun on D+ lately. And while it is a pretty good show about ancient Japan, it has one white guy in it. Thankfully he's not like a white saviour or anything - in fact he just wants to fucking go home but Plot and Politics keep him prisoner.

And the funniest thing is, despite having lived in Japan for nearly a year now, he still hasn't bothered learning more than a few key phrases in Japanese (he has a translator LIVING WITH HIM to learn from), how to properly dress himself with Japanese garments, or grown/groomed his hair to look like anything other than a wet rodent fresh from a fight.

This man is surrounded by refined Japanese nobles and officers and walks into every scene looking like The Dude Lebowski with his robes hanging open and constantly struggling for words.

This unwashed and fumbling white dude keeps saving the life of a military genius, and trading in favours intended well but recieved in disgust (he gets a house full of staff and consort who hate him, he makes a british delicacy stew out of rotted bird).

#fx shogun #Its honestly a nice reversal of the White Saviour trope #But c'mon dude you've had like 8 months to figure out the dress code #At least brush your goddamn hair

[regulusrules]

I have seen this scene for six times in a row and, genuinely i kid you not, laughed out loud every. single. time.

#peak comedy #thank you rwrb for keeping on blessing us #you are our alltime saviours #red white and royal blue #rwrb #rwrb movie #deleted scene #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine