The Start Of Something Indescribable.: So, I'm gonna pass on The Hobbit
It’s another white man’s fantasy about white people doing things in a world where people of color miraculously don’t exist.
I don’t see how this is supposed to appeal to me as both a reader and a movie watcher….
LMFAO they’re not even human. CALM YOUR…
Also… Isn’t assuming that you won’t be interested in a movie JUST because it has white actors JUST as racist as if I were to say that I didn’t want to see, say, “Dreamgirls,” or something with a lot of black people in it? This is based on a book where they aren’t even human, so why should they have different races? Therefore, YOU’RE the racist one for automatically being uninterested.
fuck you
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you white supremacy upholding dickbag
Imma side eye the fuck out of anyone who tries to contend that Tolkien wasn’t at the very least a closet white supremacist (which, newsflash, he was pretty open about Britain needing to return to it’s “pure” state).
Like…I mean…really?
I get that people want to use fantasy as escapism, but fantasy, specifically the fantasy of the 20th century onwards, has historically been used by authors (read: white authors) to depict their visions of a utopic world and/or the risks of too much ~interbreeding~ with their Black and Brown subjects.
The people who established 20th century fantasy as we know it were pretty unanimously horrible people. Take a few moments, illwait-foryou, to look at any of the political and cultural criticisms written by Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, or any of the heavy-hitters in early fantasy. Take your time.
Don’t worry, I won’t be waiting for you.
