nicocoer:[Image of a council estate with 221B grafitti’d on the cement fence. Above it in the grey s

nicocoer:[Image of a council estate with 221B grafitti’d on the cement fence. Above it in the grey sky is the phrase “You see but you do not observe.”]London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.[…] try to imagine fandom’s reaction if the next big Holmes adaptation to come along had Holmes and Watson as British, yeah - young black British men, living case to case on a council estate in a dodgy area of London. How fandom would react if Sherlock Holmes didn’t employ street kids and homeless people like trained animals to do his bidding, but instead was part of that invisible underclass; if instead of having his eccentricities tolerated~ by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making. If he had to choose between buying the week’s groceries or palming a twenty to a bored constable for the chance to spend five minutes on a crime scene, in the hope that whoever’s under enough pressure to deal with crime rates in the neighbourhood will pay him enough for a perp to feed himself and Watson for a month or two. If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch; if his arch enemy weren’t Moriarty, but the systemic poverty and inequality that has him helping out his oppressors just to get by, and that makes the other side of the law look more tempting to someone with his skills every day.If he had been in this class, he would have been diagnosed with something as a kid, shoved into classes that wouldn’t have met his academic needs and tried to train him into mediocracy. Resistance to the norm would be met with violence- his diagnosis, whatever it ended up being, would be used to justify the racial inequities until he would be forced to drop out or die. Telling a teacher off in Special Ed, or segregated settings based on disability, especially while a young black man gets you restrained. Telling a teacher or authority figure that they are illogical does too.  IDK about in the UK, But I know diagnosis like Schizophrenia have been used on “uppity” black men in the US to discredit and suppress anger. There is a whole new level of issues that pop up with Holmes as soon as he stops being white dude of a “decent” economic background. You stop being pop pathologized and become actually pathologized, and your race or disability is used to actively discredit your work. Considering the recent state of things, he wouldn’t just face racial police brutality. Because as soon as the white upper middle class thing is taken away, he no longer is shielded from being seen as someone with disabilities along side his genius- if he genius is ever even recognized. Lately, violence against people with disabilities or perceived as disabilities is on a high swing. He wouldn’t just get racial hate- which he would- or class hate- which he would. He would also be at risk of being assualted as a “scrouger”, as someone who games the system via the appearence disability- but it’s not just those getting assistance that get targeted. It’s about perception.  -- source link

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