Why People Hate Border Town

[Music] I saw that umbrella guys video about this article and I want to throw in my two cents the article is an interview of border town writer Eric Esquivel by Isabel Sophia Depa it's like reading thousands of words from the blissfully self unaware neither of these two know what they're talking about but they're pretty damn certain that they're right anyway it's an amazing read I'm not gonna go through the whole article because I can only handle so much stupid and racism and this is like a BLT of sjw [ __ ] with cheese I'm not kidding here's the opening line the opening line quote borders are imaginary boundaries that many modern politicians use to discern the humanity of a person you have to have gone to college to say something that stupid borders are boundaries created to distinguish one independent state from another that's it this land is mine that land is yours and that land over there is open whoever kills the natives first that's it no politicians are using borders to determine who's a person and who's not that's your ridiculous spin because you can't handle this some people have this bizarre idea that they belong to a sovereign nation and want people to respect their laws Jesus this is the first line and we've already reached peak stupid but wait this is an interview so when Isabel goes none are as uninformed as me Erik goes hold my taco chica he says it's not just about the physical borders between US and Mexico it's about the borders we put up between each other these fake ideologies like I'm left in you're right these fake boundaries that are man-made concepts and even things that we provide between like gender and stuff like that it seems like a lot of folks are benefiting from drawing these imaginary lies between each other you hypocritical mother that's your entire book the whole thing drawing lines between people making one group inherently bad and everyone else inherently good that's literally what you've done for three issues seriously there's not a single good white person in your book not one every white person with a speaking role just one word balloon is racist here's a good example from the third issue one of the girls Aimee burn sage in her school and sets off the water sprinklers devil I mean her straight white male vice-principal calls her into the office where he immediately literally as soon as the door closes starts Mackin on her seriously look at the screen one panel he's chastising her next panel there are easier ways to get my attention this is how all white people are presented in border town they're all scum now so are the rest of the characters everyone in the book is a shitty person with maybe the exception of Puente it's kind of like GTA the difference though is that in GTA no one is presented as the hero they're all bad some are just less bad than others border town the shitty people are made out to be heroes their virtuous not because of what they do or their actual character but because of what groups they belong to now you can have people with question the morals be your lead like in GTA look at Red Dead Redemption but all those characters are shown as having some warped sense of morality because of their character if you took all the lead characters in border town and made them white maybe the villains that's how horrible they are and those other lines Erik drew all on his own and those imaginary lines aren't limited to the book Erik's Twitter feed reads like the ravings of fanatic rapt in identity politics lingo so really just the ravings of a fanatic he comes off as racist in his tweets in his books and in this interview he also comes out as completely full of [ __ ] he says about the infamous I'm half Mexican panel where resident conniving douche Julieta tells fray the main character that he's Mexican and Irish and American all 100% at the same time quote everyday I get a tweet from someone that says they were teary-eyed reading that panel stop stop you lyin [ __ ] stop that never ever happened ever nowhere on the face of this planet not even in your dreams did that happen this is [ __ ] you made up to feel better about yourself probably because you get hang-ups for being way forward part Irish in Mexican oh who didn't see that coming who didn't think Eric wrote himself as a hero of his own comic you could feel it couldn't you you just knew just knew that Eric liked most sjw's had to really make this about himself so shallow so very shallow to do this and explains why Frank who's a complete unlikable [ __ ] is presented as the good guy if Frank is Eric then this is Eric living out his power fantasy here's the thing if you want to write an autobiography just write an autobiography don't mix it in with fantasy and didn't try to pass it off as a horror story when 90% of the story is about you working out your biracial problems now let's take a wild guess at why the white kids would be presented as villains just guess you got it okay so it turns out that Eric grew up in Arizona he's in his 30s so you can imagine that in the late 80s and early 90s Arizona he was probably the odd one out both being Mexican and biracial so it shouldn't be surprising that Eric says quote I want to be one of the cool kids no really who would have thought he says I had the opportunity now as a writer to sit down and create the book I want it when I was a kid yeah what kid didn't want to read a book about all the white kids who didn't like him probably because he was a total [ __ ] being nothing but racists who deserve to be beaten and killed right am i right we all wanted that imagine the reverse imagine if my one white high school teacher who grew up in a mostly black neighborhood wrote a comic where all the black characters were racist thugs imagine that who would even publish it imagine some guy who was abused by his mother writing the story where just one woman did something bad that couldn't be blamed on a man who would publish it imagine writing story about bad Muslims hell just saying has probably got into the video demonetized the best part about this little stream of [ __ ] is when Eric says the fact that the story isn't super after-school special political it's an adventure story with monsters and it takes place in an American Southwest on the border I think that's what's making it pop people don't want to be preached to but they'll read an exciting an adventure story what book are you reading you open the first issue with a bunch of rednecks trying to hunt down Mexicans crossing the border that's your opening then throughout the issue you've got your Latin ex characters preaching about ethnicity this is literally 80% of your first issue there is no exciting adventure just an SJW writer preaching his bigoted nonsense to the handful of racists who actually like this book he says that he didn't want the right stereotypes about Hispanic here there's a but that's literally all he did I'm wondering how well read this dude is because it's pretty hard to miss that he's reliant on well used tropes everything seems to boil down to representation not thinking of any of the characters as individuals and building from there but taking out checkboxes to make sure we see Asian Latinos because we never get to see them in the media how about starting with interesting characters if the character you find turns out to be part Japanese in part Argentinian five but just making them that to do that is lazy and uninventive you're not letting the character grow so all that will happen is that the character will have to fit inside the identity box you placed them in they won't be able to be more than their identity and that doesn't mean you have to shun their identity here in nerese is by Jordan through and through but once the writers on ds9 decide to let her be a character first we got to see her grow and become interesting she was still by Jordan and defined by her ties to her people but she was more than one thing I could go on and on about this but that's not really what this article is about it's about Erik trying to play the victim Erik says for this book we had death threats when it was announced I was going to appear in San Diego comic-con in a vertigo panel the tweets they were sending me were we're not going to send ice Immigration and Customs Enforcement this time we're sending exterminators yeah that's a threat it's not nice and whoever sent they shouldn't have sent it but it's not really a death threat if this is really all you got it's not that bad I'm sure what those white kids said was way worse to you in school though not as bad as I should you probably got from Mexicans for being mixed because you know brown people are always so accepting to biracial people then Eric just lies he says the thing that hurt me the most is that there are a lot of people that tweet me and Facebook message me that don't know me that are excited about the book go go into their local store and sign up for a local subscription and try to order it and the store refused them [ __ ] and I know it's [ __ ] for two reasons one if this had happened it had been all over social media no one is going to directly message you and only you to say that shops are refusing to carry the book they'd have sent that to every comic book media outlet it even less believable that Eric would sit on that info instead of spilling it he'd be the perfect virtue signal perfect comic-book fans to rally behind the book they have no intention of actually reading - that sounds suspiciously like an incident we actually have proof of where a handful of comic book store owners colluded in their super secret Legion of Doom Facebook group to refuse to carry or order jawbreakers when an Arctic press was going to publish it they literally said they were refused to order it if asked by customers so it sounds like Eric here he appropriated diversity and comics actual experience so he could play the victim are you sure your last name is in dollars all Eric then he says before it was sold out they just didn't want to order it because of the content because of the characters that kills me why you preview the book by showing racist rednecks trying to kill Mexicans what part of your brain made you think the predominantly white comic book audience would like your book seriously or how about this opening from your third issue and I'm just gonna read the text here there was a time when this lamb was unspoiled by borders fear and hate a time when beautiful bronze exemplars of human perfection live proudly in massive golden cities that were so scientifically artistically and spiritually advanced racist historians would rather believe they were designed by extraterrestrial intelligence than the native population right so here's the thing we're talking about the Aztecs people who ritually sacrificed humans on such a scale that they may have killed up to 20,000 people a year they recreate these racks of skull that people actually thought the Spanish made up but they were real and included hundreds of skulls including ringing towers of skulls placed in front of them this is a civilization you're paying as quote beautiful bronze exemplar of human perfection people who thought some imaginary friend needed the blood in still beating hearts of hundreds of captives in order to be satisfied and this [ __ ] about people denying Aztecs built the pyramids and wanting to believe it was aliens instead you know the ancient alien theorists say this about everything right they say the same thing about the pyramids in Egypt and European structures like Stonehenge you can't explain how people built it so it must be aliens that's literally what they do every [ __ ] time has nothing to do with race you actually watch the show or they're too many white people on it for you then he says quote I want to believe that all comic-book readers are trying to be Batman in our virtuous cool people but a lot of stores just didn't want Mexicans in it and they didn't set up a subscription book for them bull [ __ ] first of all none of your characters outside of Quinta have a lick of virtue these are people you wouldn't even leave your trash next to because you'd be afraid of what they do to it second no shops have a problem with Mexicans buying comics from them stop with the race-baiting [ __ ] the reason people have a problem with your book is because the book is racist and demeaning you trade some of those bigoted stereotypes about white people and Hispanics treating white people in particular as irredeemable bigots if any stores decided not to carry your book chances are it's because they knew their customers wouldn't buy it and it'd be a waste of shelf space not because they didn't want Mexicans in their stores now let's get to this other lie to you and Isabel kept touting this whole article quote not only did border town sellout but it became verticals first comic to go into reprint in five years following in the footsteps of Neil Gaiman's Sandman Overture lies just so many lies in one sentence lies that don't even know that their lives like their Rachel from Blade Runner how do they not know what they are okay Isabel Erik let me ghetto spine this to you border town didn't sell out when you say something sold out people think you mean is sold out of stores that didn't happen you can find first printings a border town had plenty of shops what actually happened is that the publisher DC Comics sold all the copies it printed to the comic book shops that's what sold out means now that customers actually bought all the books but that the comic book retailers ordered the complete print ride all 15,000 units yeah that's what you're bragging about that's the typical print run for a heavily pushed indie book and I'm willing to bet that DC over printed and over shipped the book so then we get to the reprints and what's this only 1500 units that's your second print right a tenth of the original which again probably is still sitting on shelves and look issue two already dropped the usual 41% down to 18 100 basically you hit cancellation numbers in a month just one month with a book that's supposed to be tamale hot the truth is that the only people really interested in this book are left aside Unitarians no one else wants anything to do with this racist nonsense the weird part is that if you remove the race baiting nonsense there's actually a good monster story waiting to be told Eric just can't see it because he's blinded by his need to sort out his racial hang-ups in his weird power fantasy the other thing is that he probably doesn't want to write a comic book he says in the article quote I want to create characters that live on after me and I want to create properties that become adapted into TV shows and movies so we get more led next actors and directors and writers and set dressers so why don't you just write a TV show dude television is super progressive right now so short of your show being super expensive you should have no problem pitching it to any of the woke Studios out there I mean I'm sure Telemundo doesn't have the budget for this kind of show but FX or sci-fi would snatch this right up but I've got a feeling that the problem isn't that no one will take the show I think the problem is that you're really not interested in entertaining people you just got some weird race-based hang-ups wherever would I get this idea he says quote I want them to be more colorful paces on things like VC's TV app that they just debuted and they're just asleep yeah because - brown boots an Israeli woman and whatever the hell Azra Miller is just isn't diverse enough he says I want to create a world where we're part of the conversation because as long as I've been alive we love their stuff I have Batman tattoos and it was until trying to work in the industry that I realized the things that I love don't always love me back and that killed me what the actual [ __ ] are you talking about when has Batman ever been racist ever no part of the DC Universe shut you out you shut yourself out by getting hung up on the characters race instead of their actual character you're so worried about seeing people who look like you that you forgot that the whole point is to use your imagination learning about someone else learn from their lessons and struggles apply that to your own light every story isn't going to reflect your unique experience Eric and even though it's fair to say that you like to see non-white characters it's not fair to say because those characters aren't the most popular or prominent that this is because everyone's racist or that characters like Batman are racist come on dude and yeah that's probably wouldn't love you back because his character doesn't think racism is cool and you're practically brimming in ethnic hate keep bettering your ass and move on but to come up with this nonsense says somehow the characters themselves are bad because they don't look like you how [ __ ] shallow are you man he says that he wants to show quote it's not only British guys in trench coats that work at vertigo yeah that's probably why his new vertical line sucks balls but what do I know I'm just some guy

Channel: Just Some Guy

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Id: w_9CYNFRl6Y

Length: 16min 25sec (985 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 02 2018