THIS PERSON THINKS BLACK WASHING VS WHITE WASHING ISN'T BUILT ON RACISM HAHAHAHA LAUGH AT THIS PERSON!

@PlushPapi then explain it. I promise you aint know shit about it more than me. love to hear your take on this.

explain what you mean by hypocrisy cause I feel like I know exactly what you mean but i'd rather not extrapolate then I will attempt to explain one time. for the record i'm not trying to be condescending. I just don't feel like overexplaining more than I have if you'll choose to not get it.

@PlushPapi before that lets be clear about "Black washing" many in "black art" twitter believe there is a lack of representation of black characters in specific medias, as such artists identifying with this space have taken it upon themselves to (for fun mostly) draw characters as black.

@PlushPapi I say "black art" I dont mean a literal group of people I mean a subculture of twitter artists who focus on making black focused/predominantly black media, art, and promoting such. ex: promoting magical girl shows made by black creators, art made by pocs, black char fan art etc.

@PlushPapi "White washing" in the context of twitter art culture, (Completely separate from historical and black race swap backlash) is when accidently/deliberately artists do not include poc features or significant motifs to a character (canon or fanon) wish to add to these summaries?

@Smolassus nah these are accurate definitions, where is the hypocrisy you mention

@PlushPapi the hypocritical mindset behind more vocal parts of the black art community to white washing. often refusing to understand artistic choices of an artist, assuming racism, and blatantly harassing artists rather than accepting honest mistakes(artist or their's) or artistic choices.

see and that's where you're wrong. I knew that was exactly what you meant. the erasure of black features is an inherently racist concept. it may not be purposeful, and I don't agree with harassment. but an action can be something, and that same thing cannot be assumed of people. you can have a racist mindset and rhetoric due to programming, ignorance, or naivety and not be racist. The erasure of black features in white washing is taken as seriously as it is because our culture is constantly trying to be taken advantage of and erased everyday so. In contrast, yes, for some white folks, it is more innocent of "I just wanna see my favorite character look like me," they should take a step back and think about why they'd wanna remove and replace some of the identifying features of the character they love. There's also the concept that blackwashing is consistently an act of acceptance in our community that we so love the character that we'd want them to have our features; it has never been an act of hate. where some people whitewash character solely out of this feeling of "hypocrisy" you feel. to close this all of I agree for some it is innocent and harrasing people in my opinion is never okay. but there isn't a hypocrisy in the conversation you name. its that both groups have "bad actors", the difference is the bad actors in the black art community have the benefit of hindsight and the history of erasure to base their emotional response based on and white people have nothing but superiority and racial angst to blame theirs on.

@Smolassus also final point, the artistic choice you're describing in the content of purposely drawing the character with lighter skin than they usually have is "I didn't like the color of the skin that the drawing had and I prefer the lighter one." is that not racist?

@PlushPapi @Smolassus "I didn't like the color of the skin that the drawing had and I prefer the darker one." is that not racist?

@ProgramAlien @Smolassus did you just ask me if making a character closer to black is racist compared to making them closer to white? one is enriching and the other is the removal of culture. twitter people ask some dumb ass questions

@PlushPapi @Smolassus Making Asian people black is also removal of culture.

@ProgramAlien @Smolassus I agree, which is why I described that it's usually done out of an acceptance of the character. asian to black and black to white are different. white culture doesn't exist that's why it's an erasure

@PlushPapi @Smolassus White cultures does exist. Irish, British, French, ex. Unless you actually believe in the black Israelite fantasy.

no those are irish culture, british culture and french culture, none of those cultures are based on what they look like those are ideals based on where they lived, and food cultures etc. POC cultures are based on what the people within those cultures look like. I feel like you fully understand what I'm saying.

@PlushPapi @Smolassus Though white culture is just European cultures and America is Protestant Christian whilst most south Americans are Spanish Catholic with a mix of native traditions.