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redjennies · 2 years

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while this is by no means confined to the late 2000s and still happens, I feel like series writers in the late 2000s in general were really bad about specifically bringing in a love interest of color to make their white lead characters seem Not Racist™ by dating them but then having that character be basically a punching bag for the Real Romance of the series: two straight white people.

#idk this bothered the shit out of me as a teenager #because it always directly led to actors of color getting harassed by unhinged Die For Our Ship fans #and it's weird how we talk about women getting targeted for this with M/M ships #but not as much about the pre-John Boyega actors of color who absolutely dealt with just as much racist harassment #because white writers directly put them in an impossible situation #just thoughts really #eta: John Boyega was absolutely done fuckin dirty by Disney and SW fans and that deserves to be talked about #im just saying he was the first POC put through this cycle that i saw talked about en masse #and i wonder if r*ylo had been a less controversial ship on its own if fans would have cared about John's mistreatment as much as they did

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