SJW Art and Extremes

Why does Tumblr have an obsession with vitiligo?

  • Suicide Girl model and America's Next Top Model contestant have it, spread on Tumblr, that's why.

    Votes: 670 16.2%
  • Stop fucking asking this this question.

    Votes: 482 11.6%
  • I swear to God I will start deleting these posts.

    Votes: 146 3.5%
  • Goddammit.

    Votes: 395 9.5%
  • ACTUALLY IT'S PART OF A DEEP FALSE-FLAG OPERATION TO TURN ALL BLACK PEOPLE WHITE.

    Votes: 2,446 59.1%

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Anyone up for a little round of Guess the Character?
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Pharah.
 
It's about how they can't relate to x because they don't look like them. And how everyone else is wrong for criticizing them. This is why I can't stand these types of works. They aren't built from an earnest place. And yeah, I can completely understand feeling isolated in a place that you don't have a lot of resources to consume about your culture. I can understand wanting that connection, but dammit this is not how you do it! You don't shit on another country's culture to satisfy your own insecurities.
Hell, half the time the motive isn't even about that the characters don't look like them or wanting something that reflects their culture, because 90% of the time the race-bending art turns out to be some pasty white chick feeling guilty that her faves are too pale to be used for brownie points in the Tumblr/SJW Cool Kids Club.

That's why half the time this kind of art tends to just be a desaturated palette swap or a really tone deaf racial caricature. It has nothing to do with making the character more relateable to them, but so they can show off how much they love black people to all those black friends they don't have.
 
God I hope no one else has posted these.

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Comment from the artist: "#also i cant stress how very not white naruto is"
You're right, my dude! But he's not black, either!

This is a canon where there's a whole village full of people who can be seen as black (i.e, Killer Bee, A, Karui, Omoi, Darui, etc.!) Why the fuck don't these dumbasses try drawing these people and giving them more fanwork, rather than blackwashing/tanning the main characters?!
 
This is a canon where there's a whole village full of people who can be seen as black (i.e, Killer Bee, A, Karui, Omoi, Darui, etc.!) Why the fuck don't these dumbasses try drawing these people and giving them more fanwork, rather than blackwashing/tanning the main characters?!
Because that would mean their extremely narrow worldview is wrong and deep down they know it would be racist as fuck to make ugly caricatures of those characters.
 
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