Dear white-washing avatar fans: Toph is NOT white (a lesson in genetics and your “inadvertent”racism)

lightspeedsound:

1.  Toph is a member of the Bei Fong family. I hate to belabor the obvious here, but that’s NOT a white name, or a hispanic name. That is a Chinese name. Translation here.

2.  Now on to the good part.  This is Toph’s dad:   

…as you can see, he is obviously Asian.  You get that, right? That is just not a white person. I don’t care how pale his skin is. He’s an aristocratic man in a society that is modeled after ancient China/Japan/Korea.  Of course he’s pale skinned. 

3.  This is Toph’s mom: 

…again. She’s very asian.  VERY, VERY Asian. Do we need to go into how Asian she is? I hope not.

4. WHEN TWO ASIAN PEOPLE HAVE BABIES, THEIR BABIES END UP LOOKING ASIAN.  

5. I know, I know. Toph has light skin and dark hair! She could be white! EXCEPT: 

…she’s really fucking not.

Toph is really Asian.

I hope you understand.

AND THAT BEING SAID: 

THIS. 


IS 


NOT. ACCURATE.


THIS.

IS 

MOTHERFUCKING

RACIST. AS. FUCK. 

…why you might ask?

…because YOU TURNED AN ASIAN GIRL WHITE.

BECAUSE DESPITE OBVIOUS CUES AND HINTS AND FACIAL FEATURES…

…YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS UNIMPORTANT.

…Boom. Racist. 

/thus endeth the lesson for today. 



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  1. fuckyourracism reblogged this from lightspeedsound
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  3. isanah reblogged this from damnlayoffthebleach and added:
    Reblogging because I heard so many people going “TOPH IS WHITE” when the whitewashing debacle over the movie was going...
  4. alostbird reblogged this from anuglycloudpeeonme and added:
    WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE RACISM! ONLY PEOPLE OF COLOR FACE RACISM! YOU’RE IGNORANT! The
  5. ellelarondelle reblogged this from goldenheartedrose and added:
    I can’t see some of the pictures :(
  6. midori-fairy reblogged this from lightspeedsound
  7. sugahwaatah reblogged this from lightspeedsound and added:
    tell dem
  8. lightspeedsound reblogged this from dulcedoom and added:
    I would buy the whole “Diversity of skin colors” thing if 1) Toph was actually the child of ivory pale as fuck, not...
  9. god-my-oh reblogged this from fragmentedquailsoul and added:
    I’m confused how a lot of those Toph fan-arts are supposed to be “white.” Look more like “generic anime character,”...
  10. homurathetimelesbian reblogged this from korraisnottan and added:
    … Dude. They made themselves so incredibly white because they thought it looked pretty, not because ‘OH I WANT TO LOOK...
  11. korraisnottan reblogged this from homurathetimelesbian and added:
    Deedee: You bout to work on my nerves so here. Just because it’s “historical” doesn’t mean it’s not racist. Whitewashing...
  12. dulcedoom reblogged this from homurathetimelesbian and added:
    She’s not even remotely brown in the show And China’s a big place with a lot of skin and facial diversity anyway
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  20. ssia reblogged this from koryandr and added:
    You do know there are pale asians, right?
  21. journalmoore reblogged this from damnlayoffthebleach
  22. jedifreac reblogged this from damnlayoffthebleach and added:
    Even if American society conditions people from a very young age to be white-centric and the posters excusing those who...
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  25. damnlayoffthebleach reblogged this from lightspeedsound and added:
    SoLDN:
  26. gadaboutgreen reblogged this from lightspeedsound and added:
    So many truth bombs. So many.
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