• RadicalEagle@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The “rightymemes” version of this is a kid asking Miles Morales why he’s brown and having text below that says

    “Because, I’m a psychological tool. By creating the image of a brown Spider-Man this subliminally engrains the myth of brown superiority into the subconscious minds of white people. This makes you people more compliant with our brown dominance over your lives.”

    The circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

    It’s one thing to make an observation of how Jesus’s “image” has been adopted by different ethnicities, but when the official lore is that all humans are made in the image of God I think there are more productive ways to approach the topic of the societal impact of whitewashing.

    I guess it’s the difference between saying “fictional white characters/heroes are bad because they reinforce white supremacy” vs asking “how foolish is it to look at a painting and try to judge which color of paint is ‘best’?”