dekedangle_rpfanon | #26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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I saw that reaction too, and found it worse than him liking the original tweet, tbh. POC have no responsibility to white people to act as perfect woke angels, and he's never even said or done anything that would indicate that he cares about social justice. She was soooo disappointed but 100% of that was just her projecting onto him how she (a white person) thinks he should act. Ugh.

ayrt

Yeah, mte. Like, you aren't saying anything about all the white players liking the same tweets but complaining how your pet POC let you down? Intra-community, yeah, it can be more personally hurtful more when POC you admire don't "get it," but for white people to talk about being "disappointed" with POC for their internalized racism and how they've dealt with living in a racist society is really gross. Whether he even is a POC or not is kinda beside the point, it's awful of her to have that expectation of someone just so she can feel good and "progressive" about having a perfect POC fav.

+ 1

Yeah, Matthews apparently liked some shitty stuff and calling him out on that is legit imo, but FUCK YEAH CALL ALL THE FOR-SURE WHITE BOYS OUT ON THEIRS TOO.

(Fwiw, I don't think Matthews is *meaningless* POC representation-wise, but I tend to think he's sort of partial credit/"it's complicated", particularly since he's basically white-passing.)

/disclaimer: i'm white

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+10000

I kind of got uncomfortable too with the projection on Buff and Seth Jones about how they'd feel about the Torts comments, though to a lesser extent than with all of the projection on Matthews about literally everything. It might be awkward for them, but tbh chances are they agree with Torts. Black/POC isn't a monolith, hell even in the NFL there are a lot of black players speaking out against Kapernik, and that's their right even if I disagree.

SA

Kaepernick, sorry for the butchering of his name

Eh, speaking for myself, I'm well aware that it's actually extremely likely that Buff and Jones agrees with Torts, so for me it was less about "omg my pure perfect oppressed fav" and just, really personally upsetting that there could potentially be a black player in that situation. But yeah idk if you were talking about meme or if we saw the same namespace people talk about it, but some of it was pretty gross, I saw someone tweet that they hoped Jones would sit for the anthem with CBJ so they could see Torts' head explode over whether or not to bench his best d-man, which...... ugh.

AYRT

Yeah, I was thinking more of what I saw on my TL. I was scrolling through and all day I just wanted to scream "POC players are not here for you to earn social justice points by needlessly defending them! They are not woobies you need to protect! They are not props for your narrative regardless of your good intentions!"

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