Let’s be clear, also, Meyer’s racism towards the Quileute tribe isn’t just an accident/ the result of generic white and settler ignorance about Indigenous people in America.
Mormon teaching is that the Indigenous peoples of the world (and potentially all non-white people) are the descendants of Cain, marked for Hell by birth. The Church teaches that the only way to “redeem” Indigenous peoples (and bipoc) in general is by colonizing them and their land, converting them to be second-class members of the church, and then committing genocide by diluting their blood lines by intermarrying them with white people.
In the Twilight books, Edward and Bella are supposed to represent the perfect mormon couple. They don’t have sex before marriage and when Bella gets pregnant she refuses to abort her baby even though having the child will literally kill her.
It’s no mistake that the main Quilleute character in the book marries the child of the idealized virtuous mormon couple.
The books are explicitly genocidal in nature. Repeatedly the Cullen’s demand that the Quilleutes/ wolves compromise their culture and their values/ the treaty they signed. By the end of the books Jacob and his closest friends leave their people/ their pack to become part of the Cullen’s family.
Twilight is fundamentally white supremacist and pro-genocide, because Mormonism is fundamentally white supremacist and genocidal.
