I don't understand why shipping reylo is racist? Reylo shippers aren't necessarily denying the presence of Finnrey. If anything there's a significant portion of fics/artwork that ship both?

Re-read the post.

It doesn’t say shipping Rey and Kylo is racist, it says that the fact that more people stan for Rey with the white guy than are willing to entertain the canonical truth that she might prefer the black guy is indicative of the systemic (ie. underlying and ingrained) racist attitudes that our society holds towards people of colour.

The post is pointing out racist societal attitudes, and notes that the enthusiastic take-up of the white enemy guy over the black hero guy with whom Rey has canonical friendship-maybe-more is one indicator that we live in a society that is problematic even in it’s “happy place”.



No, it’s not innocent. No, it’s not accidental. It’s the racism that most people won’t acknowledge as racism, and so won’t bother trying to correct themselves the way they might if they’d be brought up to use the N-word casually about black people, because “I have nothing against the black guy, I just prefer the white guy” isright? And that’s, yeah? People shouldn’t have to regulate their personal preferences! Fandom is their happy place!

We are part of a society that erases people of colour from the narratives - both in canon and in fandom. We make choices to focus on the white people over the black people - in more fandoms than can be counted, for more pairings than can be imagined, in more ways than fans will acknowledge. And this is symptomatic of the innate and unspoken racism of fandom towards black men.



Black men such as Finn.