#and this is much more important discussion than whether or not aarmau should have been canon

[aphverse-confessions]

Bro you absolutely cooked in the tags. Werewolves are a horror concept and they’re creatures where they lose their humanity and are an active threat against society as a whole, especially with how the previous anon mentioned werewolves mirroring the civil rights movement (with the wolves being rejected from a restaurant) BUT they’re an active threat and the werewolves incredibly dangerous (the wolves being banned because they were too violent and were threatening customer safety)

Racism doesn’t make sense, it’s nonsensical. No human is objectively superior than one another due to our racial background, nobody has some special traits that makes them the supreme race. To make werewolves inherently dangerous and superior is justifying the racism and the prejudice.

And last anon, genuinely no disrespect but Mei’fwa are 100% discriminated against. Being fetishized for your race (Aphmau asking Kai to go nya), being called ‘easy going’ cus of your race, that’s all still micro aggressions. Racism doesn’t have to be violent or “derogatory” (aka people calling you slurs), stuff like the model minority myth exists and “positive” stereotypes.

My biggest issue is Jesson is trying to have their cake and eat it too. Jessica wants her hot husband self insert to be a sexy werewolf, she wants the story to oogle at the hot sexy misunderstood werewolf boys cus werewolves are her fetish (<— no shade to that, more power to you), she wants to make silly cutesy dog puns with Yip cus heehee puppy

… BUT she also decided to make them a discriminated minority within MCD and Mystreet who are treated poorly by the humans. Thats why we have shit such as Sylvana having a race fetish (my soul fucking died typing that, I want to return to the world where I didn’t knew that), that’s why we have Aphmau being racist to Kai, that’s why we have so many micro aggressions casually written into the story towards werewolves and mei’fwa

Also… Werewolves supremacists… oh my fucking god why would you do this if they’re supposed to be an oppressed minority who are supposed to be unfairly treated against. This shit is a right wing talking point on how ‘tHe cOLoUrEd pEoPLe wAnT tO bEcOMe tHe MajOrItY!!!’. It’s one of the many pitfalls people fall into when they’re tackling racism in their stories when they don’t really understand the nuances of it nor do they understand the biases they have.

I’m glad my OG ask is opening up a discussion about the series handling of racism and how it bleeds into the treatment of the cast, lord knows you needed the break from the Aarmau/Aaron asks LMFAO

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