stirdrawsandreblaws:

justasprinkleofsugar:

burnttoastmaster:

all jokes aside benedict cumberbatch its racist and classist and also sees autistic people as subhuman so fuck him

Sources pls

sources!

racism:
beaniebag’s take on the August 2011 riots ignited over racial and economic inequality when a black man was shot by police: “I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road,” he says. “But those eejits saying they’re doing it for socio-political reasons? Fuck off, no you’re not, you’re on a jolly and you’re getting away with it. It makes me want to belt them, make them lame for a bit so they’re dependent on other people’s mercy…” (technically this one is racist, classist, AND ableist, but we’ll move on)

bramblepatch considers his roles as slave-owners to be “a sort of apology” for his entire family fortune being built on the slave trade…which is all well and good except he got paid millions of dollars for those roles. right.
granted, it can only be confirmed he feels that way about his abolitionist slave-owning character, but literally anyone could have played that role?? pretty sure he didn’t seek it out specifically as a form of atonement for hundreds of years of his family working slaves literally to death.

and let’s not forget he still defends his role as khan in star trek: into darkness, which…well, given that khan (in the original context) was a character who was genetically engineered with all the best genes on Earth and the intentional choosing of a man of color for that role was essentially a fuck-you to white supremacist/white-as-default notions, it’s definitely a sore spot and worth consideration in the context of benchmarktest computersmash’s family owning black slaves

classism:
revisiting the first link on racism, actually, for when bendytoot said “But my sympathy is with the people who do know what they’re talking about, who have been brought up on estates and live morally decent, contributing lives and who have seen opportunists destroying all their work.“

breadedbun talking about the Edwardian period: “There was a social structure that had to be adhered to… Everyone was held in their place, but what was honourable about it was that there was a duty of care from the top down.” (bonus: the statement he makes below this one in the linked article is fat-shaming)

ableism:
bindlesnoot comparing autistic people to frankenstein’s monster because they are, essentially, ”adult children” living in arrested development; there’s far, far more at the link as well

brimbledip becoming angry when people think certain popular characters he plays might be autistic (notably Sherlock and Alan Turing–who btw was an actual historical gay/bi man and that was all but erased and twisted in the movie about him :/)– because it offers ”false hope”

this is by no means an exhaustive list, but there’re some sources for you