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Another reply mentioned it, but xenophobia also ties into it.

I think it's fine to criticize something popular and dislike it, as long as you don't sink into misogynistic, sinophobic rhetoric. Let me know it this makes any sense or not.

Cute and mindless in a vacuum, but dangerous in practice.

Personally, I think owning a labubu or three is no trouble at all. The issue is when you've got, like, a million of them. It's like Stanley cups; you don't need one for every outfit, that a lot of popular influencers eventually dump.

Two things can exist at once.

People will hate things that women do and enjoy because of misogyny, but also labubu's are a part of blind box gacha gambling addiction, consumerism and overproduction. Just to make fluffy plastic garbage that's going to end up in landfills and the ocean.

the class war never takes a break. make sure you're not absorbing and then re-transmitting the enemy's propaganda :)

This is coming from the guy who's list of kinks and fetishes is extremely depraved to the point where I don't want to talk about them online, by the by, I'm not trying to talk down or be better than anyone at all. Mostly I'm just thinking outloud.

Woah, it's almost as if we should have nuance for this type of stuff. Huh. That's weird.

Obviously you're not a horrible person for liking fictional crimes, but I always find people who say one has no affect on the other distasteful. And inversely, people who say it's 1 to 1 piss me off because if you can enjoy fictional murderers without becoming a serial killer, clearly that's bull.

The whole "fiction doesn't affect reality" thing has just always rubbed me so wrong because it feels like people only care about it as far as what they can jerk off to in a fandom and never any deeper analysis of the relationship between fiction and reality.

To be clear, I don't even think it makes you a racist, a bad person or any of that bullshit. I just think that a lot of people don't examine that shit hard enough, and all humans have invisible internal biases. It's just when you say this, white queers get VERY defensive.

I bring a "I think racism being woobified by white fandom isn't okay" to the fiction-doesn't-affect-reality function that a lot of white queers don't like.

I don't care how fictional it is, if you're genuinely glorifying violent racists, you have to do some self-reflection, especially white queers.

Being a person of color in fandom is difficult, because I can never fully agree with a take like this knowing it's purely in the sense of interpersonal dramas.