irresistible-revolution:principessapeach:arcs-of-light:pink-mama:offbeatorbit:am i watching game of
irresistible-revolution:principessapeach:arcs-of-light:pink-mama:offbeatorbit:am i watching game of thrones or a fuckin feed the children commercial?oh goodness…couldn’t they diverse the slaves a bit? I mean this is a magical world…not all the brown people had to be slaves…because it looks like the white savior kind of thing.They’re all Valyrian. Every single person in that picture is from roughly the same genetic background. Dany to the continent of Essos is just something like a redhead is to Europe.There is no actual white-saviorism anywhere in any of the books or in any of GoT. Dany really is just freeing her own people. No, you are wrong. There ARE people of Valyrian descent in Essos. A lot of the ruling elite and slaveholders in Valyria claim Valyrian blood as a status symbol. But the slaves and the institution of slavery was a part of Valyria’s empire and they were not Valyrian. They came from lands in Essos that Valyria conquered. See: Slavery Bay. Slavery Bay (Mereen, Yunkai etc) was once an agriculture-based society until the Valyrian burned their lands till no crops would grow and till they took them as slaves. Braavos, for example, is founded by slaves and when Jon Snow meets a Bravosi and he makes the joke about dragons, the Bravosi is serious and he says that they don’t joke about dragons because of what the Valyrian Empire did to them. They do not identify as Valyrian.Valyria is a parallel to the Roman Empire. When the Empire captured a slave from, say, Gaul, he did not become Roman. He remained a man from Gaul, though he might be called a Roman slave and though he might speak the colonizer’s language. Long story short, you are wrong about this and you are wrong that there is no white-saviorism in the books nor in the show. The books are better for one main reason: GRRM sees that while he thought he was writing a story about a revolutionary, he was really writing a story about a coded Eurocentric woman “saving” otherized peoples and he does make her fail in ADWD.lmao at ‘Dany is only freeing her own people’. No, she’s freeing people from a system her ancestors started with their colonization. She’s LITERALLY a white savior. You know, when Americans go to Arab countries to ‘save’ people and they make things worse, they are literally walking on the backs of what America did earlier (look up the history of the destructive regimes that America once armed and used for their profit and for oil). That is what a white savior is. This is literally what happens with Dany, considering Valyria’s history with Slaver’s Bay, and how she leaves the region ruined despite her good intentions. That IS a white savior. Regardless of what an author or a show intended, intentions don’t matter. People of color see ‘white savior’ in Dany’s arc and they are not wrong.THANK YOU. I can’t believe people look at the image above and try to excuse the problematic racial implications. And when I say ‘problematic’ I’m being euphemistic. -- source link
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