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elsaqueenofstress · 2 years

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"how many people simply don't consider [riffnita] or find it offensive (it's not!!!)" ma'am multiple people have explained why we do not consider them and why we find their pairing offensive. please stop trying to make latin people and people of color look or feel like assholes for not shipping a woman of color with a (weirdly beloved) white supremacist for the sake of "enemies to lovers" thank you <3

#notes #you do not! fucking! care! about anita! much less understand her! if you think she would randomly sleep with riff in your little fantasy #wss demonstrates the societal structures that are meant to crush hope and and deny love for those it deems unworthy #it ALSO shows how in internalizing these messages individuals (including the jets!) can further destroy hope & love before they occur #tony & maría's story (whether you believe they were compatible or not) is about them trying to overcome those barriers but failing #because of the ~society~ they live in and the hatred that has seeped from it into the individuals it oppresses #[even though this hatred reached the sharks as well people are a little too eager to characterize them as the violent ones considering–#–they are just trying to stop hate crimes from occurring while living their lives]#so no it is NOT about 'hehe enemies to lovers! love is possible!!'#riff is complicit in denying peace and mocking the national identity to nuyoricans so why the fuuuck would anita be like. Smash #think about that and then come tell me that im being RACIST for not shipping him with anita bc i think she deserves better than him #why does everyone obsess over him. why does everyone love him. what am i missing. [these are rhetorical questions]#the manips of them are soooo. like maybe if you have exactly two scenes of them together #(each of which lasts <5 seconds)#that should tell you something #even if the blatant xenophobia doesn't!#west side story #riff #anita #riffnita #riff x anita

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