That ao3 fic reminds me of how when George floyd was murdered like three days later some marvel fan made a fic like "on Tuesday george floyd was murdered. On thursday the avengers had a press conference" or some shit like it's literally heinous. White people just see our suffering as fodder for their stupid fantasies and it's so depressing and so demoralizing. How fucked up do you have to be to see us suffering and want to write about it? To sit there and research details about a Black man's murder at the hands of white supremacy, not to educate yourself in the hopes of being more aware about the world or to help the fight with others, but to headcanon how you think these fantasy characters that don't fucking exist might respond to a murder they wouldn't even have blinked at in-canon (and whose actors also frequently remain silent)? Ultimately all for views and likes? Do you people just hate Black people that much?
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And what's crucial about this, what a lot of white fans want to ignore, is that the AO3 mods absolutely refuse to take these fics down. The creators, runners, and supporters of AO3 are largely white and largely apathetic to the various ways that Black people get dehumanized. Just go through any post made by AO3 defenders and they're more willing to argue about sex and purity than the myriad forms of violence that white (women, mostly) will engage in to dehumanize Black people for their personal enjoyment. It's chronic. It's racist. It's absolutely flooded AO3 and the mods cover up their antiBlack apathy (or outright antiBlack antagonism) with claims that doing anything about this is censorship. They fully and wholly believe that """fan engagement""" is more important than racism--if anything, they don't think it's possible to even have fan engagement without virulent antiBlackness.
White fans see this, ignore it, and--like the reactionaries they are--donate dozens and dozens and dozens of times until Archive of Our Own quadruples it's goal. They scroll past donation posts for Black people in need and in danger to donate to AO3, all for the mods there to keep doing what they're doing, which is ignoring antiBlackness, supporting racism, and shouting down any dissenters by directly stating they must be procensorship.
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