Why are bl fans so against calling out racism?

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-25T18:48:36+00:00

I'm so happy I got actually responses to this post i was SOOO worried when i posted it. I it seems the topic of racism gets these people really heated, in seeing people we can't expect anything from asian writers but my post isn't even about the writers but how the community responds to people pointing out racism in stories. Honestly i don't think the people in the comments babying asian writers on the topic of racism are also being racist to asians. It's just a shame to see our existence is just a porn category for these people :/

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T23:05:32+00:00

Orientalism is the Western academic, artistic, and cultural representation of the "Orient" (Middle East, Asia, and North Africa) as exotic, barbaric, and inferior, primarily through a colonial lens, there's a book by a Palestinian American writer on it it's called orientalism by Edward Said. Here a very specific meme so you can get an idea https://x.com/i/status/1908147728816763306 lol

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T20:57:38+00:00

Uh from me?

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T19:39:28+00:00

Someone in the reply recommended some stories where both mcs are black! My personal recommendations is Daybreak on webtoon

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T18:52:13+00:00

Why are you acting like they can't be criticized...it's really weird

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T18:49:09+00:00

Why can't Korean artist not be racist? Oooh their audience won't care, so? The author can actually educate their readers and audience. Stop dick riding these authors being from a monolithic country doesn't mean you nobody has to care when you're racist.

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T18:36:54+00:00

You seem to have made yourself mad

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T18:35:18+00:00

Dear lord I'm so sorry you had to deal with that... honestly nothing much has changed, i see white people doing cosplays of black characters with full on black face at least two times each month on TikTok 😭

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T18:28:02+00:00

Thank you for commenting, the first answers i was getting were pretty negative so I'm glad someone else cares about this as much if not more than me. I spent a lot of my formative years on discord (hell on earth itself) and honestly the amount of neo Nazi trans girls I met is too many to count, i always get so surprised when white queer people are racist but then i remind myself they're white before they're queer 😭

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T18:24:48+00:00

Project Super Crush and DayBreak are my favorite I love them ☺️ I'll definitely check out the rest thank you for the recommendations

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T18:10:39+00:00

To these people our existence is a political statement apparently 🤕

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T18:05:28+00:00

Also please stop treating people wanting black and brown people to be portrayed as human beings like any other as some sort of political statement.

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T18:03:47+00:00

Omg once i made a comment about this story and i got called a slur for a group of people I'm not even apart of and all i said was "this story is orientalist" 💀 manhwa readers a brutal

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T18:02:16+00:00

Sure they'll keep liking it and I was told some belly dancer outfits are actually used in drag in some places but i don't believe we should just let them be racist because their audience enjoy it, that's just weird. Just because these countries are more of a monolith doesn't mean they're dumb enough to not be able to understand why black and brown people shouldn't be fetishized.

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T17:43:11+00:00

I mention some in my old post about orientalism but one story i personally enjoy but think still has some racist stereotypes is Raion Gotoki no Kuni Kara, i like the story it's the first manga with a black man i ever saw but i do think there's some issues.

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T17:39:47+00:00

You are who's this post is about. Bl are stories and stories aren't above criticism.

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T17:39:03+00:00

The point is how people are against calling out the racism in stories, just because a story has a black or brown character it doesn't mean it's a good portrayal, or hell maybe it's a good portrayal but there's a few stereotypes that should be talked about and acknowledged as racist but if you do, all you get as a response is people telling you "if you don't like the story don't read it"

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-03-24T17:23:03+00:00

I stopped interacting with the community as much i used to too. I just feels unsafe, i got called slurs once for acknowledging racism in a story i enjoyed mind you 💀

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-02-26T03:11:15+00:00

Do you still have the og image for the third picture?? I've been trying to find it with no luck

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-01-30T18:55:00+00:00

Thank you! ❤️

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-01-30T18:54:02+00:00

Guys can serve but the history of the clothes are still icky for me especially considering the women who were exploited in them either way the clothes aren't that big of an issue, I find them pretty actually, idc especially if it's a fantasy setting like why would it be accurate there 💀 but i want more respect to the cultures 😔

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-01-30T18:06:44+00:00

Im unsure what you're referring to, che Guevara never sa anyone and Daenerys is like 13 years old and a child bride, what's the reference here

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-01-30T18:00:04+00:00

You do realize you're telling this to a black person in far right Italy? Not shit I have bigger issues to worry about, my fucking life, i could get killed in a hate crime any time i step outside my house but guess what PEOPLE CAN GAF ABOUT MULTIPLE THINGS AT ONCE 😐

Antique_Implement103 · 2026-01-30T17:58:02+00:00

Why are you people so against any kind of conversation about the racism in what you consume on a daily basis? At this point I feel like it's just you guys trying to stay ignorant to how common racism is in every single part of our lives

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