[warnings for this post and included source links: buckets and buckets of ableism, especially anti-autism ableism, including uncensored slurs, mentions of abuse and murder, classism, transmisogyny, misgendering, rape apologism, and mentions of other -isms and slavery. please also note that most of the source links contain photographs of the actor in question.]
you know what? I’m pleased that the the majority of Marvel fandom has, from what I’ve seen, taken a staunchly Do Not Want attitude towards the probable casting of Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange
but I am really, really sick of the stock answer to “why don’t you want Cumberbatch to play Strange?” being given as simply “because he’s yet another white cishet dude (and Strange doesn’t need to be white)”
I mean please don’t get me wrong, I absolutely agree that the endless parade of white cishet dudes leading Marvel films is racist and boring as fuck and that casting a MoC as Strange instead would be wonderful; that is certainly one totally valid reason to be highly disappointed and frustrated with the (not-yet-officially-official-but-all-signs-point-to-highly-likely) casting of Cumberbatch, yes
but can we please, please, PLEASE – I am literally begging here – please acknowledge that the problem with Cumberbatch specifically, and the reason so many people are so upset about this rumour, isn’t only that he’s ‘another white cishet dude’
the more pressing issue is that he’s specifically a white cishet dude who has said and done some incredibly vile and disgustingly bigoted things and as a result he is a walking trigger to a sizeable amount of people
this is not just a case of, as I’ve seen people claim, “tumblr collectively deciding to turn on him just because he’s white and he’s said a few slightly problematic things and tumblr is fickle like that”
this is a man who prepared for the role of an iconic fictional monster – a literal nonhuman creature (albeit played in a supposedly sympathetic reimagining) – by watching autistic children like zoo animals (presumably without their consent) and deliberately copying their mannerisms and movement, and publicly described these children as “very upsetting” and “not fully evolved”
who, three years later, apparently has not learned at all from being called out (not nearly enough) on this vileness because he continues to reference this ‘research’ and describes a 17-year-old autistic person as “[having the] the mental age of a one and a half year old. Everything was just about bodily functions. Smell. Sexual arousal. Shitting. Whatever…”
who furthermore has, on multiple occasions, said that’s it’s ‘dangerous’ and ‘lazy’ to interpret any of his characters as autistic or otherwise neurodivergent (including Alan Turing, an actual human being posthumously widely regarded as autistic) because he’s met people with “those conditions” and it’s “a real struggle all the time” and he doesn’t want to “offer false hope for people going through the reality of it” (and also casually throws around the term ‘sociopath’ for good measure), despite the fact that the vast majority of people who headcanon characters as autistic are actual autistic people desperate for positive representation
a man who has literally said things about autistic people identical to things our abusers have said to us, identical to the things that allistic parents say to justify murdering their own children
(need I point out that a fairly large proportion of people in Marvel fandom are neurodivergent?)
a man who unabashedly proclaims that disability should be a punishment for supposed wrongdoing, that if people don’t live (his idea of) “morally decent, contributing lives” then “It makes me want to belt them, make them lame for a bit so they’re dependent on other people’s mercy…”
who said that the Edwardian British class system was “honourable” because “there was a duty of care from the top down”, and has repeatedly complained about “posh bashing” in modern Britain
who continually misgendered Chelsea Manning without even a single attempt to correct himself, and simultaneously defended rapist Julian Assange saying the sexual assault claims were “character assassination”
(and this is just the tip of the iceberg, I’m literally just picking out a few of the most clearly horrific quotes here; I haven’t even touched the countless examples of his more ‘casual’ ableism or his racism or misogyny or heterosexism or ace-erasure or fat-shaming or mansplaining or fandom-shaming… nor the fact that he apparently refused to change his surname to distance himself from his slave-trading ancestors even at his own mother’s request, merely because I can’t currently find a source for that, but I don’t doubt that it’s true)
and if you think that all that is just “a few slightly problematic things”, ignoring the countless people deeply hurt and triggered by his words and actions, then fuck you tbh
so yeah SIGH YET ANOTHER WHITE CISHET MAN, by all means complain (rightly!) about the continuing lack of diversity in the MCU, but look: I for one would accept pretty much any other boring-ass white cishet man in the role if I just never had to see and be triggered by Cumberbatch ever again, and I know there are many other people (particularly neurodivergent and disabled people) who feel the same
he’s not just ‘another white cishet dude’, the point is he’s a particularly vile one who has hurt and continues to hurt a lot of people
and can we just please, please, please stop ignoring that detail when people ask why Marvel-fandom-at-large doesn’t want him? please?
I don’t think that’s an unreasonable request
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Tamir Rice Death Declared Homicide In Newly Released Autopsy
CLEVELAND, Dec 12 (Reuters) – The death of a 12-year-old Cleveland boy fatally shot by police in November has been formally ruled a homicide, according to a Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s autopsy report released on Friday that found he was struck once in the abdomen.
Tamir Rice, who was black, was shot on Nov. 22 by police responding to a call of a suspect waving a handgun around in a Cleveland park. The weapon turned out to be a replica that typically fires plastic pellets. He died the next day.
The autopsy report said that Rice sustained a single wound to the left side of his abdomen that traveled from front to back and lodged in his pelvis.
The shooting came at a time of heightened national scrutiny of police use of force and two days before a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August.
Rice was shot less than two seconds after the police car pulled up beside him in the park, police have said. They also released a security video of Rice in the park before and during the shooting.
Rice’s mother, Samaria Rice, said on Monday the officers involved should be convicted. The family filed a lawsuit last week against the city of Cleveland and the two officers involved in Rice’s shooting. The officers are on administrative leave.
Below is the autopsy report via WKYC.
A grand jury for the case is rumored to already by underway. Prayers to the Rice family in this impossibly difficult time. #staywoke #farfromover
When people complain about paying/inheriting the mistakes of their ancestors they fail to recognize an important part of it all. They feel they shouldn’t be accountable for the actions of their ancestors but believe they should be heir to their privileges. They are given inheritance, education, networking, and privilege from their ancestors. They don’t want to pay for the seeds their ancestors sew but feel entitled to the harvest.
those “mistakes of their ancestors” also tend to be modern day mistakes that are still being repeated. Racism still exists today it’s not like white folks are benefiting from past racism only.
It is true that most Jews today did not experience the holocaust. This does not mean however that Jews should get over it. Judaism will never be the same, our culture has shifted and the Jewish psychology has transformed into something totally new. The holocaust has been the most influential event in Jewish culture since the destruction of the second temple. We can not get over it, we may never get over it.
can we pls stop telling trans ppl theyre ‘attractive as both genders’ when they show like 4 yr hormone difference cause thats not only ignorant of nonbinary genders but also like. they dont care if you think they WERE attractive as the presented gender they were extremely uncomfortable with what the fuck makes you say things like that
preach this to the high heavens
Omg look at petas response
Holy shit what the fuck burn them omgso when we say fuck PETA you know where we’re coming from
-_- Quinoa is great as a gluten-free source of nutrition for people with GI problems, but we should not prioritize what for most people is a fad over the fact that we are stealing the subsistence of other people.
Remember, you do not know this youtuber or celebrity or w/e that you love so much.
You know the them they want you to know.
Never blindly follow and support anyone!!!
And they shouldn’t expect you to do that either
While the social justice movement is amazing in many regards it is historically and currently antisemitic and those that are not guilty of perpetuating hate are guilty of standing by the sidelines and looking the other way. This post would be ignored unless I put this sentence in and some of you feel guilty and reblog it, most likely it still will be ignored. I lose 5-35 followers anytime I make a post about Judaism and my blog is dedicated to social justice. If you are antisemitic you are not fighting for justice you are fighting for those you deem worthy of justice.
here’s a dating tip
if your partner suffers social anxiety or is an introvert, do not force them to go out on a date or hang out with you. more than likely, being alone relaxes their anxiety and recharges their energy. so respect that. and don’t bug them about it or take it personally. you’ll make their anxiety worse or just end up making them feel guilty as shit.
this goes for friends too. don’t do that to your friends.Someone finally said it
This Is a Backup Blog 