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[(Anonymous)]

Compared to, for example, ars_belli? Franzeska's racism is ~excusable~ on an "I can excuse racism but I draw the line at animal cruelty!" level.

This is what I want to get across by making the above comparison:

Is she a straight-up Nazi?

Well, no. To the best of my knowledge.

Has she ever stood around simpering over how awful she feels about ~this whole unfortunate situation~ while her white male relations went out and lynched a black kid who happened to glance in her general direction (about whom she'd complained to her relations)?

Also no. To the best of my knowledge.

However, her medium level of racism etc shouldn't be excused, and the fact that she's probably no more racist than any of the Conservative/Republican family/other loved ones any of you* folks Shut Up And Keep The Family Peace for doesn't mean that she should a pass on being a medium-sized piece of shit.

Franzeska has been in fandom for going on thirty years, and she has had people gently educate her about her shitty middling racism, and then less-gently educate her about it, for going on thirty years.

And for going on THIRTY YEARS, she has not changed, and not changed, and not changed, and continued being a medium amount of racist that's just one side of plausibly deniable, but when you look at her pattern of behavior over the course of thirty it's right there writ large:

She's a fuckin' racist piece of shit. Not a Laura Dern Elbows Deep In A Triceratops' Ex-Dinner Sized Piece of Shit, more a Medium Sized Pony Piece of Shit, but a piece of shit nonetheless.

At this point I don't care how big a stink it is, I still don't want it in my house.

TL;DR we don't get to excuse and step around medium sized racism just because the people doing that racism are less bad than Nazis and the KKK.

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*I disowned the last of my racist family and friends this year, and made sure they know why, because I am sick of keeping the peace so that other people can keep on being thoughtlessly, comfortably terrible in my vicinity.