A tag wrangling decision that coddles racists in fandom and emboldens racists to be condescending and antiblack in response to Black fans speaking about it is a racist tag wrangling decision. An archive practice that protects racists’ feelings is a racist archive practice.
Full stop.
This is a decision that was made in order to coddle racists still mad about Sam Wilson being the new Captain America. This was a decision, made just over two weeks from Brave New World‘s release, to prioritize the One True Captain America, center whiteness in fandom, and remind Black fans that we don’t get to have anything at all in fandom.
These films are not different franchises and it’s not a new continuity. There is no need to separate them at the franchise level in the tags. And had Bucky become Captain America instead of Sam, they would not have made this decision. It’s a decision made to insulate them from the reminder that this change has happened and that Captain America is now (and has been for a couple of years) a Black man.
And everyone in the comments and tags condescending to or mocking Black fans as if the ones talking about how bad a look this is are too unintelligent to understand how archives work or what racism looks like? The ones alternating between calling Black fans armchair activists and saying that we should tackle the “real racism” on the archive first – something I’m certain they’d get in the way of discussing too because these people literally will not let Black fans speak on what we see?
Those antiblack assholes can go straight to hell too alongside every single person responsible for that tag wrangling decision.
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