first-disorder:fozmeadows:So this just showed up on my dash and I’m done, you guys, I am done undo t
first-disorder:fozmeadows:So this just showed up on my dash and I’m done, you guys, I am done undo the heat death of the universe. I have said before that the soft Nazi Kylux aesthetic pisses me right the fuck off, because it does, but this, right here? This is not soft Nazi anything. This is taking a direct quote from the actual fascist neo-Nazi politics that are happening right now and reframing it as a cute joke between two characters - who, need I remind you, are literal fucking space Nazis - as a way to promote their ‘ship. what the actual fuckLike. I can, if I squint really fucking hard and ignore the giant racist fandom elephant that is people writing more fics for the white guy space Nazi villains of TFA than for the female and POC heroes despite the fact that Hux barely features in the fucking movie - if I put on my most charitable fandom hat and say that, yes, I understand that Adam Driver and Domhnall Gleeson are nice dudes IRL and that some people find them very attractive even though neither one of them does anything for me personally, and of course said people are entitled to write what they want, and not all fics have to be wholesome and not all characters have to be cinnamon rolls, etc etc etc - then I can understand the appeal of Kylux. I can stay in my lane and out of the tag and get on with my goddamn life.But this? I don’t know how the fuck to read or contextualise this as anything other than someone saying, “I have drawn a direct line between the literal space Nazis of Star Wars and the actual fascist neo-Nazis currently running the United States, and instead of interpreting this parallel as a deliberate and ringing condemnation of Nazism in the Star Wars universe, I’ve decided to embrace it as part of my cute white ‘ship and turn a real-time fascist slogan into a humanising joke between two literal space Nazis in a way that highlights their Nazism while making it seem harmless.”Milo Yiannopoulos and his merry band of fascist white cisgay dudes would probably think this is super cute and hilarious, and that is why it makes me want to set my fucking tumblr on fire. Speaking to white people as a white person, we need to shut this shit down, especially within the queer community. “Ship and let ship” ≠normalising or humanising fascism and Nazism, and especially not at a point in time when both those things are fucking the world up. DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS, OH MY GOD.FOLLOW FOR MORE SOFT NAZI AESTHETIC -- source link