#starting with the fact that piranesi is fucking british. and also his parents migrated from non-US countries of their own will lmao | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

angorwhosebabyisthis · 1 year

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you know. there are few things that make me sit and think carefully about my instinct to say something would be a Good Fictional Metaphor for a real-world issue like the time i saw the take with my own two eyes that piranesi is a powerful, insightful, accurate metaphor for both colonialism in general and slavery in the US

#piranesi tag #antiblack racism cw #anti-indigenous racism cw #colonialism cw #like i really /hope/ that was just a bad take and not the author's intent because hoooooooly shit that would be. Bad #starting with the fact that piranesi is fucking british. and also his parents migrated from non-US countries of their own will lmao #that does not even begin to scratch the surface of what a balls-out racist trainwreck that would be but like. Uh #amazingly enough marginalized people are capable of experiencing ableism and individualized abuse #that does not reduce their experiences and their personhood down to a one-dimensional symbolic ambassador for the One Group #marginalized people and their stories are not in fact interchangeable with each other and it's dehumanizing to act like they are #wild i know but autistic black people who have been abused via isolation; trauma-bonding; ableism; and gaslighting #and loved their abusers; and had their trust; loyalty; and goodwill taken advantage of--in ways both utilizing and resisted by their autism #and needed outside help care outreach and perspective to solidify their inklings that what's happening to them is fucked and they need out #exist! and deserve representation just actually!#whereas that's uh Not How Fucking Slavery and Colonialism Have Gone Ever Jesus Christ Lmao #anyway. i could go on for a long time about this shit but tl;dr it is one of the most spectacularly awful takes i have ever seen #and this kind of thing is why i have so many posts sitting in my drafts to mull over re: political metaphors i'd approve of at first glance #because dear fucking lord lmao #the salt files

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