#hob: i hear there's money to be made in selling human beings as property! | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

bookshelfdreams · 4 months

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finally watched Netflix The Sandman a while back and can i just say, from the way fandom talks about it, I would not have guessed that Hob Whatshisface is a minor side character who was in half an episode, and who's most notable action is loudly thinking about getting in on the transatlantic slave trade.

(before you get your knickers in a twist, I'm not making a judgement on anyone's character for liking him or shipping him with Dream, or whatever. There's just certain tendencies and patterns in fandom, and at some times, they are more apparent than others)

#for real though what was that scene #hob: i hear there's money to be made in selling human beings as property!#dream: hmm. have you considered that black folks are people though.#hob: oh shit! for real? wow. much to think about.#and its like. thats who yall latched onto. SERIOUSLY.#like not only was this extremely uncomfortable its also just badly written and once more affirms that racism is inherent to white ppl #instead of the truth: that someone born in the late middle ages would *not* have grown up with the assumption that black ppl are subhuman #because thats a modern invention #anyway!#ng for pip #just to be safe #the sandman

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