failure_artist

I was re-watching Lindsay Ellis's video on the bad take on racism in the modern-day fantasy AU movie Bright and of course I thought about Homestuck. Homestuck has fantasy racism but unlike Bright it doesn't touch on real world human racism. The fantasy racism against lowbloods does not come from anything the lowbloods did, unlike the anti-orc sentiment in Bright. The racism isn't just individuals being mean but enforced by the system. The lowbloods aren't coded as any human race (though oddly enough the elite are coded black at times). The lowbloods live a shorter lifespan but they aren't really inferior intellectually to the highbloods. Where it becomes tricky is Beforus. Is Beforus a commentary on how even racism that doesn't come with hate or violence is still bad? That would be a good message to present to the world. But the biggest critic of that world is very unlikable and the second biggest critic is more interested in gender oppression than racism. Makes one wish there was a Friendsim that took place on Beforus.