Okay, I blame my reading list for this

[la_vie_noire]

Snarp just talked about this shit here, so I was about to let it go, but then just it popped out again on google when I was looking for "anime news" (yeah, I was looking about Reborn, shut up).

So the fuck, have a piece of privielged white Japanese American man saying that race doesn't matter because who cares if racism exists in the West, and POC are under and badly represented! And you know Japan SO makes manga for white people to appropriate have someone who looks like them.

ETA: First I linked to the wrong article because I can't find it on google anymore. I swear I just read the same shit on other place just now. Or it may be my lack of sleep. Whatever, have to go now.

Comments

[salinea]

the white man in that article says that he is half-Japanese American. Doesn't make what he says any less bullshit of course.

[la_vie_noire]

Ah, thank you for clarifying that. Huh.

[kaitou-marina.livejournal.com]

I JUST nearly got into a fight with people over this the other day. Oh my GOD I wish people would shut up. I feel like the only one in a sea of people that likes anime and manga specifically because they are Japanese. I want things to stay recognizably Japanese, otherwise I don't want to consume them. Period. Clearly there are more than enough people who don't give a shit though that everyone else thinks they can make a buck off of white-washing.

Rrugh.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I feel like the only one in a sea of people that likes anime and manga specifically because they are Japanese
I'm pretty sure you're not the only one but sadly, that position is as much in risk of being racist via fetishization of Asian cultures by privileged white people as the opposite.