Woke up still thinking about the Lisa Alexander fanart thing. It seems such an awkward, unremarkable thing to latch onto. I finally realized that the face she made was straight out of Dean Ormston comics so I get that part, but I think the context overpowers that a great deal

Some loose points while I wake up:
-Drawing her as a demon is another thing that puts Racists Over There, Not Over Here. She's not hellspawn. She's an extremely regular white American convinced she's right who pulled an unfortunate face.

-What she did isn't even particularly remarkable, outside of putting her foot in her mouth and then shooting her foot. Amy Cooper wilding out was what, almost a month ago? Being on the receiving end of this face isn't interesting or rare. It's utterly mundane if you've lived it.

-The demon thing grates contextually. In light of her quotidian foolishness, it feels like pushing racism into a box of things that Other People Are, like being racist is unique or whatever the Hell-version of being divinely inspired is.

It's like how people will say "Punch Racists!" It's because some people think that there's people who ID (or behave) "like racists" as we understand it, and then there's everybody else. But that's definitely not how racism in America works!

That's getting into psychoanalyzing a dozen folks I never met (don't separate racists from regular people tho) so lemme move on to:
-Why her and why now, during this specific moment we're having? What is so compelling about her form that it needs to be immortalized sans context?

cuz all the art I've seen has focused on her Ormston face and not the horrible thing she did, nor is the art set in the greater context of white supremacy, freedom of speech, or life as a NIMBY in the Bay Area.

Shorn of context, she is Slenderlady, a cool drawing ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

"Check out this picture of a cool scary clown I drew!"

"Are you really showing me a picture of John Wayne Gacy"

"N-No..."

-Finally, this thought is still baking, but I can't help but think of the lengths the black people I know go to in order to avoid running into a Lisa Alexander (or worse, a cop with nothing to do) in relation to this. The demonic aspect suggests a taint to me, a poisoning.

But Lisa Alexanders are usually ~decent people~ who made a ~bad decision~. We can't see them coming, because anyone could be her. We joke about "white lady clutches her purse when she sees a black person" but not "black person minimizes their presence to avoid racist drama"

If they actually were demons, life under white supremacy would actually be a lot less stressful, actually.