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Can we talk about the intentional blindness in Anime fans to certain themes in select series?

Konradleijon said:
here it is


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'The Green Inferno' Review: Lousy Film, Plenty Racist

Tara Houska, Ojibwe, reports that the film "The Green Inferno" trivializes grassroots efforts to draw attention to the plight of Amazonian tribes.
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I feel like you missed my point here. Do you have a point besides "this film is racist?" or are you interested in just listing racist things over and over again. I'm sure the people on this forum know that racist things exist. This is a discussion forum, what discussion are you looking to spark?
 
Konradleijon said:
That's only what Roth said, we have no way to no if it's true, and I'll never forgive him for making Green Inferno, which is way more then casual racism
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Look he's a stupid asshole and a bigot, but like, there are degrees of this stuff, and I'm pretty sure Green Inferno was made because he really wanted another Cannibal Holocaust without considering any of the implications of it, and not because he had a deep hatred for indigenous people.
 
IfIhadaHammer said:
Look he's a stupid asshole and a bigot, but like, there are degrees of this stuff, and I'm pretty sure Green Inferno was made because he really wanted another Cannibal Holocaust without considering any of the implications of it, and not because he had a deep hatred for indigenous people.
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Being passively racist is still bad, it's actually more insidious then active racism, see MLK and the white modrate. Him making green inferno is like brith of the nation, he deserves to be blacklisted for not listening to indignious activists.
 
Konradleijon said:
Being passively racist is still bad, it's actually more insidious then active racism, see MLK and the white modrate. Him making green inferno is like brith of the nation, he deserves to be blacklisted for not listening to indignious activists.
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Bruh Green Inferno came out almost a decade ago and the man's worked sporadically since then, nothing with a serious budget.

Ngl this comes off more as you being upset he's directing a Borderlands movie than him being a shitty person.
 
Arawn_Emrys said:
Very simply: not a lot of stuff like that makes it to our infosphere. I had no clue he was like that until reading it in this thread. Unless it becomes widely known, you can't assume any given person is aware of it. I don't even know the names of the composers in most games, and know his only because he had a monster named for him in DQ8
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speaking of which, what did Eli Roth do anyway?
 
Konradleijon said:
He's another terrible Edgelord creator.

and people that ignore disquieting themes like Terraformrs
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"Edgelord" isn't a synonym for anime, he doesn't belong in this thread.

As for Terraformars we all know why people ignore the racist aspects of it; it's because there are an awful lot of racists. It's not a mystery.
 
Okay I get your point , rember how western fans like dragon jest despite the fact that the composer and co-owner is a war crime denialist and also huge homophone
 
Konradleijon said:
Okay I get your point , rember how western fans like dragon jest despite the fact that the composer and co-owner is a war crime denialist and also huge homophone
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And frankly, my problem with you harping on about that is that

A) To my knowledge, his beliefs have never influenced the series; I haven't played all the Dragon Quest games, certainly, but I definately don't recall any Japanese War Crime Denial coming up in the plot of these fantasy games, or any blatant homophobia. In fact I'd point to the contrary with how the game is fine with having flamboyant or potentially homosexual characters in the party. If anyone can show me where I'm wrong about that, then please go ahead and do so - as I mentioned, not an expert on all the games, so it's entirely possible something flew over my head at some point or it comes up in one I haven't played.

B) Koichi Sugiyama is one person among a team of hundreds - even if he's a co-owner and major composer, to say "we need to cancel and throw out this entire series because one person who worked on it is bad" means that you probably shouldn't be enjoying basically any major media beyond small indie developments ever. I can 100% guarantee you that every single major project, whether it be video games, television, films, whatever that has a large enough team is going to have at least one person if not more with a few "problematic" beliefs. At least talk about media with only one or two overarching owners and creators who are problematic, like books (Harry Potter and the Transphobic JK Rowling, or Orson Scott Card and the extreme anti-islam elements that come up in the Bean series. Seriously, I didn't even realize what a shitbag Card was when I first read those books as an unaware teenager, and I still remember being weirded out by the sudden Caliphate Muslim Armies trying to take over the world or whatever was going on there.)

C) Last I checked, you made this thread to talk about Anime fans and select series - bringing up examples like High School of the Dead, before derailing into your stupid personal vendettas against whichever person reddit or twitter or whatever has told you to be mad about this week. You keep bringing up Eli Roth, who you've been bringing up off and on for literal months in other threads as well, always to the same reaction of "cool beans then don't support him nobody here does", and I'm sure if you're still posting in this thread next week we'll get "Whackoski's 2: Electric Boogaloo! Did You Know that the Whackoski sisters are RACIST because of Atlas Shrugged?" If you desperately want a topic to try and call Sufficient Velocity forth as your personal army, built and ready to Cancel all these terrible people you keep finding, then go make a separate thread for it. (Or don't, seriously, because that probably violates several forum rules).
 
Konradleijon said:
Also the lack of non white characters in prominent
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If you're talking about anime, then they're Japanese, not white. If a white person shows up, then they'll likely have blond hair and blue/green eyes and a crazy name like Sallyopera Flowerbrusselpantz or something ridiculous like that. I agree with you about not having dark-skinned characters and the gross implications of a "race-less" default skin tone being lighter skinned, but the suggestion that anime characters are white and not Japanese when most of them have very Japanese names is just flat out wrong.

If that is, y'know, what you meant. Because your comment cut off there and the title/context of this thread implies to me that this is supposed to be about anime. So.
 
So I don't get why people reacted so negatively to Nortalys video? Throws like 5/10 reaction videos on it on my feed and that's just the ones I've seen
 
I think he's a supporting character in Guilty Crown, that's what MAL says anyway.
 
Please, everyone knows that Guile from Street Fighter is the most American character to ever come out of Japan. Followed by Bandit Keith.
 
Red Orion said:
I feel like Bandit Keith is more American than Guile, but I am willing to be convinced.
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It is an interesting question, Flag Bandanna vs Flag Tattoo, Sunglasses vs Flattop, Biker Jacket vs Military Fatigues. In many ways, they are two sides of the same American Male Stereotype coin, Bandit Keith's Toxic Masculinity to the more Traditional Family Man of Guile. Which better represents America? The bad, or the good?

Edit: What the fuck am I talking about.
 
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