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hmm. okay i think if your goal is to humorously but genuinely summarize othello you have to say the words racism and black more than once. "othello is an idiot plot there's no reason for othello to believe iago" Address Me 🐘
— Feb 15, 2026 12:40PM
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sorry to intrude on your update but i'm just reminded of my white friend telling me that her othello hot take (with the disclaimer she did not mean this dramatically but in terms of character) was that othello was an asshole so desdemona would be happier married to cassio .. don't know how to articulate it bc i don't know othello TOO well but that felt deeply wrong😭
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violet wrote: "sorry to intrude on your update but i'm just reminded of my white friend telling me that her othello hot take (with the disclaimer she did not mean this dramatically but in terms of character) was ..."HELLO........ see im not saying othello is a perfect guy because he does like. kill her. he does definitely kill her. but "desdemona should be with cassio instead of othello" is exactly the rhetoric every white person in that play already believes solely due to antiblackness so that one. feels weird! feels deeply weird. especially bc desdemona and othello have what seems to be a very genuine caring love before iago gets involved
