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If you ship Reylo, you're a racist.
Fandom racism is a terrible thing that makes people of color (usually referred to as PoC, POC, or poc) feel marginalized and unwanted in a community that should be just as free and welcoming to them as it is to white people. These same Reylos almost always shit on Finn to write their stupid, sub-par stories that romanticize abuse, kidnapping, and incest. Finn does everything in his power to protect Rey and even nearly dies for her (we'll get into the racism in that at a later date). What does Kyle Ron do? He kidnaps her, mindrapes her, and tries to kill her.
Finn won't kill for the First Order and what does this get him in fandom? Turned into a Sith or some sort of nasty caricature who tries to hurt the pale, innocent white flower! To top it off, with her story, Rey has no business being white. She could have been literally any other race in the universe, but Disney made her white. I, personally, think a dark skinned black woman would have been a better choice for Rey, but if that woman was Rey... the Reylos would be even more racist than they already are.
Kyle Ron is a nothing compared to Finn. He has nothing on that amazing man's courage, his heart, his everything. And what do the racist whites do? They go flocking to the angsty white boi like the idiots they are. Or even worse--they ship Finn with Rose! She abuses Finn in canon! IMO, Finnrose is just as bad a ship as Reylo is, if not worse!
Tl;DR: Reylo is racist because it ignores a black character who has canonically more positive interactions with Rey for the white Nazi.
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Reasons Why Reylo Is Bad
Non-FictionReasons why Reylo is bad and other problematic ships you should avoid, along with tips and tools for white writers who feel like they "must" write PoC characters.
