yzazar:

I’ve been debating whether or not to speak up because I usually don’t? But I feel this is important.

As a Latinx, more specifically a 1st generation latinx immigrant raised in the usa, watching the last Jedi, especially Poe’s arc, was soul crushing.

Where I’m from watching a weathy well dressed white woman belittle and patronize a latinx is an everyday experience. Latinx suffer all sorts of indignities because we know with just a word from them we could lose our jobs or worse.

How many videos are there of white women shouting slurs at us, threating us with police and deportation because they’ve just assumed because we are latinx we must be undocumented? And those of us who are undocumented suffer the most at their hands. How many rich white women take advantage of undocumented latinx? How many of them have nannies and housemaids they hire and underpay? Your ‘angry white soccer mom’ meme mighy be funny to you but most undocumented latinx fear shitty people like her.

Its so easy for them to devastate someones life.

I could rave and rant about the shit my family and I have suffered at the hands of wealthy white women but instead I’ll remind you that over 50% of white women voters voted for Trump and Roy Moore.

They had every opportunity to make Holdo a strong statement against those percentages. They didn’t.

So if you watched tlj and hail Holdo as a feminist savior I’ve got bad news for you. Your white feminism isn’t cutting it anymore.