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ori-ebon:

zamzamafterzina:

lp1kfa:

erik killmonger is a villian, yes. but the reason black people can so easily humanize him is because we feel his sentiments. he is meant to represent the raw, unfiltered rage and frustration that black people feel deep down when we analyze how we’re treated around the world. he isn’t meant to be some smol lovable cinnamon roll uwu.

we aren’t glorifying him for murdering or being abusive or violent. we are sympathizing with him for having extremely valid and relevant reasons for being hurt. his anger is powerful and complex because it’s fueled by pain that every black person has felt some time in their lives. his intentions for wakanda were actually noble, he and nakia shared a similar vision. he just executed it differently for other reasons.

now please go nut over some evan peter gifs and leave black people alone.

*anti hero, that was butchered by a straw radical trope

^This. A character like Killmonger would be smart enough to realize how reckless and riddled with flaws his plan was as executed in the movie. The eventual fallout of his plan would be for Wakandan tech to fall into the hands of the oppressors, in one way or another. His idea was sloppy. The smart way to go about it would be to arm those Black communities, yes of course, but for the purpose of defending themselves while they organized, in a manner that was impossible back in the day, rather than just killing the people in power. But then that wouldn’t be a villain.

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

eyeloch:

pep-no:

taahko:

@ rian johnson

Doing so in a military organization will result in official reprimand, though. Or worse.

Going against those with power is always dangerous.  It is, however, often the right thing to do. Even when the consequences aren’t exactly as expected, what Ahsoka says here still applies. 100%.

What if Finn had the same “hope” Poe is expected to have in Holdo in Phasma and the First Order? As established in Phasma, many of the First Order stormtroopers have the same hope that the Order’s rule will bring peace and justice to the galaxy. It’s a dangerous double standard, to ask stormtroopers to question their leaders and do what feels right and then turn right around and expect rebels to blindly obey even when they think their leaders are immoral and possibly treacherous. 

yungjedi:

Like you can place Finn and Kylo Ren side-by-side and show them both the exact same tableau and they will each get something completely different out of it

For god’s sake, this happened in canon

Kylo and Finn were BOTH ON JAKKU at the EXACT SAME TIME and were looking in the EXACT SAME DIRECTION

Kylo Ren saw a destroyed village burning to the ground and didn’t think anything of it

Finn saw a destroyed village burning to the ground and saw it as abject, like actually fundamentally Wrong, like Offensive To All Senses, even more than being simply cruel and evil (bc remember, he has no reason to believe that this is anything other than normal; expected even)

Like Finn has been conditioned for this, spent his whole life being trained for it, never considering that it was wrong, and it still looked wrong: wrong to the touch, wrong to the eye, wrong in concept and thought and feeling

It was wrong enough to make him flee

Like even beyond the common Nature vs Nurture questions, Finn 100% embodies the concept of justice and goodness sprouting from places where it had no right to live (and conversely, Kylo embodies the concept of having all the required ingredients for greatness [growing up in peacetime, having heroes for relatives, increased access to ideas etc] , and ends up bad anyway)

Finn is the perfect foil for KR and their dynamic yields more than any other, is what I’m saying

reina-rubia:

men don’t abuse women because they haven’t learned how to cry+show emotions in a healthy way; they abuse women because since birth, through parenting and media and the overall surrounding culture they are taught that women are subhuman, made to exist in the control of men. men exercise this control through violence, with their entitlement translating into epidemic levels of rape and domestic violence.

simply telling men it’s ok to cry wont help women; an abuser can both cry and abuse you know!! society protecting women’s rights and showing zero tolerance towards rape and violence against women will help, and that’s what we should be focusing on instead of engaging with mra types who have no empathy for anyone but themselves