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that’s exactly what i’m saying. even tho bob is a moc, the fans give his character “the straight white guy treatment” because he’s whitewashed SO much. ship him with the main girl, etc etc. these are the exact same people shipping kylo ren and rey because they’d rather ship her with her white abusive relative than with a brown man

Originally posted by booyar

i’m so…confused.

first of all, the idea that because the narrative of the show white washes bellamy (which it doesn’t, since he’s canonically treated worse than literally every white character except for maybe murphy), it’s suddenly okay for the fandom to white wash him as well, is ludicrous. defending your racism with “well, they did it first!” is not alright.

second of all, WHERE do bellamy fans give him the “white guy treatment”?? WHERE??? we’re over here having to actively debase anti-bellamy posts that literally label him as white, we’re arguing with anti-bellamy fans who try to say that bob does not equal bellamy and therefore bellamy is white, or that bellamy should be assumed white until proven otherwise, or that because bellamy has white family members, he must be white (because biracial people don’t exist now amiright).

if shipping him (him being bellamy, you know, the MALE LEAD) with the female lead is “giving him the white guy treatment” then what exactly are you trying to say? that moc characters can’t be shipped with female lead characters? because from where i’m sitting, that’s what your argument is, and that’s like 110% gross my dude.

the fact that bellamy, a biracial moc, is the male lead, is a southeast asian man who is allowed to be sexual and alpha male and strong, while also emotional and sensitive and flawed without being emasculated because of that–the fact that he is allowed to be considered a viable romantic option for the lead character, is huge. it’s a big deal, and it’s an example of good representation that subverts a lot of asian and particularly male asian stereotypes, whether you ship bellarke or not.

i have to say, as a filipino fan in this fandom, it’s reading things like this that puts me nearly to tears. i’m quite literally shaking because so many of you are continuously and almost willingly disrespectful, dismissive, ignorant and racist all because of a fucking fictional ship war. 

firstly, try to remove your bias from the situation. forget about your opinions on bellamy, forget about your opinions on bob, forget about your opinions on this stupid ass ship war. bob morley is half filipino. i saw it the moment i first saw him (and guess what? maybe some pinoys didn’t notice it straight away, but many also did!! myself included!!!). living in australia where there is rampant racism, i grew up purposefully staying out of the sun out of fear of becoming more brown, i would throw my lunch away when i got to school out of fear of being mocked for daring to have rice, i scrubbed my skin when i was in the bath hoping to somehow become lighter because i wanted to be whiter. why? because white media, and by extension white supremacy, is omnipresent. for 15 years i saw no one who looked like me on television. yes, i saw people with darker features and i even identified with them for being brown even if they weren’t filipino, because i had no rep to relate to in the first place, that’s how fucking desperate i was. it wasn’t until i was 15 years old and started watching pretty little liars (not a good show, but that’s irrelevant) when i saw shay mitchell and i can’t describe the feeling when i googled her to confirm my suspicions that she is in fact filipino. i’m now 20 years old and since then i have seen two other filipinos on my screen. i can count on 3 fingers the filipino characters i have seen (and in turn identified with) in 20 years of watching television and believe it or not, the one i identify the most with is bellamy, the one you’re all jumping through loops to invalidate as filipino. 

bob morley is proud to be filipino, has mentioned his pride in his heritage multiple times. if you start a sentence with “I am in no way TRYING TO SAY THAT BOB IS WHITE but-” nothing about what you say after that holds any sensitivity toward bob or his ethnicity. the moment you say “i’m not referring to this real life man of colour as white BUT” - the damage is already done. the moment you place him as the Privileged White Man™ that girls will always prefer to the MoC, you’ve erased his ethnicity and in turn erased his struggles. you’ve stripped him from his identity considering HE is the MoC that is mistreated by fans, not the Privileged White Man™ you all desperately want him to be. 

(also?? whats w/ the lowkey misogynistic implications in assuming the ONLY reason people like bellamy is because he’s attractive?? finn was an attractive white man and not many people cared about him or liked him. as hard as it is to believe, the reason we love bellamy is because ((particularity in seasons 1-2)) he had a character arc that was dependent on bettering himself and learning from his mistakes. we love him because he’s an incredibly rich, complex and interesting character. and if eli ((who is gorgeous btw and i know the implication in this message is that girls wouldn’t be attracted to eli the same way they are bob hence not like him or ship him with clarke or raven or any character)) played him that would be lit??? ofc for me it wouldn’t have QUITE the same impact as bob playing him because bob represents my particular demographic but i can promise you bellamy would still be my favourite character. let’s throw a bone to teenage girls shall we and assume that they are capable of loving a male character for reasons other than finding him attractive) 

secondly, please please explain to me exactly what “the straight white guy treatment” is and how it relates to bellamy in any way? i honestly want to know WHAT straight white male treatment is and how benefits the lead MoC on the show. see, this argument is paradoxical in nature. what you’re trying to say without ACTUALLY saying it is “he’s not brown enough.” 

he’s not brown enough but he’s brown enough for the actor to be spammed with racial slurs 

he’s not brown enough but he’s brown enough for fandom to make jokes about the actor’s candid confession about growing up as a mixed race person in australia, dubbing him “bob manpain morley” 

he’s not brown enough but he’s brown enough that there are copious amounts of jokes about his “unwashed/dirty” hair (which btw his hair is not unwashed or dirty, his hair is thick and black and curly and is naturally harder to maintain bc it has a different texture to the anglos. his hair doesn’t grow like finn’s or jasper’s as it’s a different texture because he’s not white) 

he’s not brown enough but he’s brown enough to have people make comments about his nose and his ““large”” nostrils because they’re not typically european features 

he’s not brown enough but he’s brown enough to have his skin lightened in graphics, same as lindsey, same as isaiah, same as ricky, same as all of the other PoC actors on the show who have their skin constantly whitened in graphics and photo-shoots to appear more attractive to pervading white media. 

if we’re talking in the narrative then once again, this argument is baseless. considering bellamy is a prime example of how PoC on this show are vilified, have their actions framed as wrong and only wrong to then spend 1.5 seasons redeeming themselves (redemption is achieved by being beaten, domestically abused, begging for death/signs of suicidal tendencies and tortured) only to then be vilified and go through the same process all over again. 

also “ship him with the main girl, etc etc” surely i don’t have to explain why saying only white men can be shipped with the main girl is very, very racist?? saying that shipping a character with the main girl is a sign of “white male treatment”? what exactly is the argument here? that MoC can’t be shipped with the main character because that means they get white male treatment suddenly? 

thirdly, let’s discuss the whitewashing argument. because this is important for so so many reasons. you argue that it’s “because he’s whitewashed SO much” in the narrative that he then automatically receives this mythical white male treatment that is apparently reserved for MoC now, opposed to you know… actual white men. i feel it’s incredibly important to note that whitewashing is not a form of privilege, it’s a form of erasure. 

but while we’re on this topic let’s talk about the whitewashing of bellamy blake. bellamy in the show has a white half-sister and a white mother. want to hear something completely and utterly crazy?? i have a white father and a white half-brother. it’s possible folks. i can confirm that biracial people not only exist, but we also sometimes have half siblings and maybe a parent who are half of our racial heritage. now i’m not saying i wouldn’t love it if the show referenced bellamy’s filipino father in some way, whether it be by flashback or even a passing mention. but just because the show hasn’t got a big ass sign slapped to bellamy’s back that says “i can confirm that i am in fact half filipino”, that does not mean his representation is suddenly stripped from him. especially since it has been confirmed by both jason and kim that bellamy is half filipino. 

now people have raised a fair point, that because it’s not shown on the show, then it’s not canon. and that’s fine, but i ask then, why does this mentality only extend to bellamy’s ethnicity? by that very same logic, lexa is not a lesbian in canon. yes, lexa has shown interest in women in canon but bisexual and pansexual women are also attracted to women, so how is it that we know lexa is a lesbian and not bisexual or pansexual? because jason confirmed it on twitter. i don’t see anyone reaching to the stars to create arguments about how lexa doesn’t count as lesbian representation, how lexa is not a lesbian until proven otherwise by canon, that lexa is actually bisexual. no one argues that, no one strips lexa of her representation despite the label lesbian never once being uttered in reference to her in the actual show. it was something that was confirmed via twitter, much like bellamy’s ethnicity. and yet one is celebrated while the other is erased and dismissed at every turn. ask yourself why that is.

ask yourself if you would be going to these lengths to prove a character who is representation for asian men, who subverts so many toxic tropes tethered to asian men and who offers something for southeast asian folks who never get to see themselves on television is actually a white male if he wasn’t involved in a ship war. if bob morley was instead playing lincoln, do you think you would be here arguing that he doesn’t count as racial representation?    

actually, ask yourself why it is that so many of you are determined to take the minuscule representation filipinos do get on tv and tell us it doesn’t count, tell us that he is white, tell ME that after watching 20 years of TV i need to lower my count from 3 filipino characters to 2 filipino characters. 

forthly…… 

“these are the exact same people shipping kylo ren and rey because they’d rather ship her with her white abusive relative than with a brown man”

 this might be my favourite analogy i’ve ever seen in my life. because… bellamy IS a brown man. you’re saying we’re the type who would rather ship an abusive relative white male than ship the lead girl with a brown man when we are quite literally shipping the lead girl with a brown man. 

and lastly, can we please please please stop acting like the only people who talk about bellamy’s ethnicity are bellarke fans? that the only people who are calling you all out about your racist treatment of bellamy are bellarke fans?? there are many, many fans who view bellamy as PoC rep (because he literally is) and identify with bellamy and don’t ship bellarke. there are many, many fans who are vocal about the racist mistreatment of bellamy both in the narrative and in the fandom who are not bellarke fans. what you guys are doing when you say “omg the blorkes saying belllamy is “representation for minorities” omg what a reach!! the blorkes saying that we’re being racist to bellamy lmao why do they want this White Man™ to be oppressed so bad??” you’re trying to say it’s just a ship war. it’s just the immature ~blarkes making things up about the racism bellamy faces, it’s the immature ~blarkes “reaching” rather than accepting the possibility that maybe, just maybe bellamy is PoC rep and in turn receives racist treatment. 

@la-petite-fadette is not a bellarke fan in the slightest, and recognises bellamy as representation for MoC, is vocal about racial mistreatment of bellamy in the fandom (from all sides, but clexa fans are being particularly bad toward bellamy as of late) and KNOWS that bellamy in no way receives white male treatment 

@http://reynas.co.vu/ not a bellarke fan, is incredibly vocal about the racist treatment of bellamy in the fandom and even went as far as to create a gif set to counter the incredibly racist gif (created by a clexa stan) that erased bellamy’s status as a minority as seen here xx 

@starqued is not a bellarke fan after the s3 treatment, but is very vocal and adamant about bellamy’s mistreatment in the narrative and fandom. is very vocal that the fandom’s treatment of him is racist and that he in no way benefits from white male treatment. 

@the100isracist is a blog dedicated to calling out the racism in the both and the fandom and the way bellamy is treated is very much referenced in this blog. not a bellarke shipper/shippers. 

@fandomshatepeopleofcolor is a blog dedicated to calling out racism in fandom’s and you’ll find the 100 tag has quite a lot of criticism toward the way ya’ll talk about bellamy (among other PoC)  

 stop pretending it’s only the ~silly hormonal blarkes~ who are talking about this. what you’re doing is bigger than a ship war, you’re literally erasing someone’s ethnicity. it’s disrespectful, dismissive, ignorant and most of all, racist.