Oh, I didn't even see that link. Yeah, of the three examples, the first Transformers one I can possibly give it to them, though from the screenshots all one can tell for sure was that it might have been inspired by the events of 2020, but without appearing to take any stand on it at all, much less an overtly racist one. The second Chinese fandom one was just bizarre and I have no idea what to think or what I was even looking at but it would be a vast stretch to think racism was involved. Just looked like typical weird insensitive porn to me. Almost certainly created by a Chinese fangirl which is just hilarious since this is supposedly about protecting "fans of colour". And the last one they've literally got it twisted around exactly backwards. I happen to have encountered that fic and far from being a "Nazi fic" it's an *anti-Nazi* fic in which the Nazi character gets killed. And it was the *author* who was the victim of harassment at the behest of this "fandom scholar" (and lmao that someone apparently thinks that's a thing). *Everything* these people say is false and in bad faith and nobody should engage with them as if anything else were the case.
It's kind of hilarious that this is what they think constitutes the horrendous deluge of racism driving away Fans of Colour™ from AO3 (by which they actually mean themselves and fellow ideologues and dear Jesus if only it *would* drive them away). I've seen *far* more offensive stuff here in my time. I've literally encountered concentration camp guard rapes Jew porn on here. I think I even saw a fic where Hitler rapes Anne Frank. The Historical RPF 'fandom' is WILD. And actually, lmao, recently I came across one where the blackwashed Ariel from the new Disney live-action Little Mermaid was enslaved and whipped by Prince Eric or something. They're just troll fics and obviously so and not even well done trolls, since they never catch anyone's attention, not even the outrage of the self-designated fandom antiracism crusaders (or jihadists, I guess, would be more appropriate in this case). And it ain't driven me away. As a "fan of colour" (in whose name they're supposedly doing all this) I was a big enough boy to snort in disbelief and click the fuck away. And move on with my day. Like a grown fucking adult.
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