Laurence Fox and Lewis fan fiction and angry feels!
(this below is cut and paste from my facebook page, and I am talking of the fb group, but I feel I have to air my feelings everywhere. I have just read more about his musings on class as well as race now, and his attack on black and working class actors - and honestly, it's because no one listens to you until you are successful and famous, how the hell does he know what young, struggling black and working class actors said about diversity or the lack of it, ffs, no one was listening. and actually, the cities of Britain throughout it's Empire days had a 3% black and Asian minority, the same as the whole country (being 20-40+% in cities and large towns now) so colour blind casting might be distracting for the racists, but it might actually be more representative and historically accurate that you think! Rome has a policy of sending it's soldiers to the opposite sides of the Empire from whence they came, so Nubians and Egyptian soldiers shivered on Hadrian's wall too)
From facebook:
With respect to some amazing friends I have made in the Laurence Fox United fan group, who are now my friends, I have left the group. I thought about commenting, but do not see the point. A bunch of white people from all over North America and Europe supporting and agreeing with a wealthy white man regarding racism in the tabloids and our society and within America.
Sure, white liberalism is all very nice, saying colour doesn't matter, and that's great, live your life never judging a person by a colour, but you're white, so you don't know what it is like to be judged by others who are not like you!
The comment that made me have to leave was stating that Megan doesn't know what racism is, she is mixed race not black, and also rich, so doesn't experience racism. Well, she wasn't always rich, and for some racists, especially in America, that makes you black ffs!
Besides, even is you can demonstrate every nasty slight in the tabloids was because she was American, not mixed race, then that is still xenophobia, so it justifies nothing!
Even my exceedingly white looking daughter is not immune from those snide asides wrapped up in politeness but are so bloody racist in her life. for example - takes glasses off 'ooh, I didn't realise you were a bit ethnic' or 'where does your surname come from anyway'. A 1000s slights a day is racism as much as a shaven headed thug yelling a name or hitting you, and what every non white person lives with daily and Laurence doesn't know jackshit, and does not deserve defending for his ignorance!
Anyway, I guess the group served it's purpose and gave me some fantastic, wonderful friends already and I hope this post does not offend any of you.
Right now, my daughter and I have a new series of case fics planned together - I have drafted the ideas, and slowly she will plot it for me, then I will write, but at the moment I am hating Hathaway too, and I don't want to. I wish I had stayed loving Hathaway and let my daughter be into the actor and the music and backed off!
And I reinterate, I hope this post here (dw or lj) does not offend anyone, that is the last thing I want to do, nor debate, I just needing to air my hurt.
From facebook:
With respect to some amazing friends I have made in the Laurence Fox United fan group, who are now my friends, I have left the group. I thought about commenting, but do not see the point. A bunch of white people from all over North America and Europe supporting and agreeing with a wealthy white man regarding racism in the tabloids and our society and within America.
Sure, white liberalism is all very nice, saying colour doesn't matter, and that's great, live your life never judging a person by a colour, but you're white, so you don't know what it is like to be judged by others who are not like you!
The comment that made me have to leave was stating that Megan doesn't know what racism is, she is mixed race not black, and also rich, so doesn't experience racism. Well, she wasn't always rich, and for some racists, especially in America, that makes you black ffs!
Besides, even is you can demonstrate every nasty slight in the tabloids was because she was American, not mixed race, then that is still xenophobia, so it justifies nothing!
Even my exceedingly white looking daughter is not immune from those snide asides wrapped up in politeness but are so bloody racist in her life. for example - takes glasses off 'ooh, I didn't realise you were a bit ethnic' or 'where does your surname come from anyway'. A 1000s slights a day is racism as much as a shaven headed thug yelling a name or hitting you, and what every non white person lives with daily and Laurence doesn't know jackshit, and does not deserve defending for his ignorance!
Anyway, I guess the group served it's purpose and gave me some fantastic, wonderful friends already and I hope this post does not offend any of you.
Right now, my daughter and I have a new series of case fics planned together - I have drafted the ideas, and slowly she will plot it for me, then I will write, but at the moment I am hating Hathaway too, and I don't want to. I wish I had stayed loving Hathaway and let my daughter be into the actor and the music and backed off!
And I reinterate, I hope this post here (dw or lj) does not offend anyone, that is the last thing I want to do, nor debate, I just needing to air my hurt.