I don’t understand how anyone on this God-forsaken website can hate Rose Tico. She is literally everything that they’ve been demanding for years.
She is a woman of color and the purest being to ever grace us with her existence. She doesn’t have a traditionally “feminine” job, works with her hands, is extremely compassionate, believes in justice, and is shown to be rather intelligent. The only thing that she’s missing to make her Tumblr’s golden child is being homosexual.
This isn’t even to mention the fact that how she reacts to meeting Finn is exactly the same to how any of us would react to meeting John Boyega.
So, yeah, Rose Tico is a treasure, and any of you who disagree can fight me.
The real reason why they hate her is because she gets in the way of their OTPs (Finnpoe and Finnrey). Everything they say about her, is fabricated to make her look bad (things that they’d happily excuse in their faves).
Oh, no, no, no. The REAL reason why they hate her is far more insidious than that.
Antis aren’t “anti racist”, they’re “pro black people.” Every other race is fair game for the racism they claim to be against. Hell, I wouldn’t even say they’re pro-black people either as they’re happy to call Black people “coons” the moment they don’t toe the line. I’d say they’re just “pro-Black people unless you disagree with us.”
Hispanics? White passing. They don’t count. They’ve got that light skinned privilege and don’t know what is slavery, so they’ll never know the REAL oppression.
Native Americans? Who gives a shit? Nobody gives a shit about Natives. They’re less than dirt as far as these people are concerned.
Muslims? Ha. Only Western Muslims count. When a Middle Eastern Muslim talks about how her hijab is oppressive and how oppression in Islamic countries is? Shut her down! She doesn’t know how bad those Western Muslims have it.
Jews? Only as a shield against “kylie ron”. Otherwise? Jews are evil zionist money grubbers who are in control of the US government and need to be expelled.
Asians? They get the worst of it. Especially East Asians. Asians are “pee oh see” but are nowhere near “oppressed.” Ever wonder why people ask why “there aren’t any poc in anime?” Or why Whitewashing Black characters is wrong, but it’s perfectly okay to alter Symmetra and Connie’s features to look more African in fanart? Yeah, it’s because Asians are “diet White people.”
I’ve been called “sand nigger”, “paki”, “brownie curry” what have you on the internet many times before. On any other site the people doing this get called out as trolls. On Tumblr? It’s encouraged. Because racism against Indians “doesn’t count.”
I’ve seen Finnrose get the same kind of flack. I’ve seen Rose get called a “downgrade” as a love interest for Finn because she’s Vietnamese. I’ve seen it get called “not a real interracial couple” and all sorts of shit like that.
These guys are bloody hypocrites and perpetuating the very thing they hate.
I’m—
the very thing they claim to hate, anyway. especially when your main standard for “interracial couple” is that one of the parties has to be white……..that’s legitimately racist af, but ok.
And you know what is really ironic? The galaxy far far away is a place full of incredibly different types of people, of different races, of beliefs etc. A true Star Wars fan embraces that difference – I see Finn and and rose as the key that unlocks how all of this is going to end: by meeting DJ on their adventure Finn understands that the world is not black and white and that there is a fine line between good and bad, and Rose teaches him that a man or woman needs to live by a set of values. But most of all Rose teaches Finn how this war is going to end: by helping believing in and ultimately saving those we love. Black panther showed everyone the way. Obviously the skywalker saga is about a family but once this story has been told rian and team will show us all these new unexplored worlds and hopefully the next saga will be even more representative of the extraordinary magical diversity that makes us human
And for some extra hilarious irony? Racism doesn’t exist in the GFFA. Some specism? Sure. Prejudice against and less rights for droids? Yes. But discrimination between humans of different skin colors/ethnicities? “Race” as a concept as we understand it in real life isn’t a thing in Star Wars.
There don’t seem to be any qualms about gender identity or sexual orientation, either.
It’s basically the “woke” Tumblr crowd inserting real life politics into a fictional universe where those things don’t apply.
And they claim “straight white male fanboys” are the worst part of the SW fandom.
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