its-amemaryam:

wesleyslaurel:

It’s funny how it took the death of a White queer character for people to see what the POC have been saying for months. It’s weird how this is what opened your eyes to the issues that have always been prevalent on this show. This show is and always has been problematic, but I’m glad this is what made you see the light. 

Isn’t it ironic that many of the very same people who are waving metaphorical pitchforks and calling Rothenberg homophobic and the show problematic for killing off a queer character have been rooting for the death of a poc since last season for no reason but that he might prove an obstacle to their ship? But apparently that’s not problematic or racist at all…

No, I’m not happy that this is what made people open their eyes to the more problematic aspects of this show. I’m fucking bitter because this really goes to show how fucking hypocritical and self-absorbed a substantial part of this fandom is. Do these people even know how fucking rare a Filipino character is in mainstream Western media, not to mention a Filipino MAIN character? And yet people have been cheering for Octavia to bash his head in and for him to die, even before his character did a 180.

A Latina female constantly being physically or emotionally abused and traumatized without ever getting to deal with her issues and being slutshamed by the show runner didn’t clue them into the fact that this show is problematic?

Characters of color constantly being subservient to white characters unless they’re villains wasn’t problematic? Monty to Jasper, Wells to Clarke, Lincoln to Octavia, Bellamy to Clarke in season 2, Indra to Lexa and Octavia didn’t raise any flags?

The way Lincoln’s torture was sexualized?

The way poc are judged for their actions and have to spend an entire season to redeem themselves when white characters don’t even have to apologize or change their behavior?

The disgusting Asian stereotype road they’ve taken with Monty be desexualizing him?

But this? This is what convinced people the show is problematic?