On one hand: Yeah. It seems like quite the Sisyphean task.

This is exactly why doing your homework is important. History matters, and other cultures aren’t just window dressing for you to try on; it’s not just cosplay and fun-and-games. There are real, sensitive people involved, and this is exactly what happens when you can’t do the bare minimum of studying the context of the…

I keep meeting people who are yelling “get over it” and yet i’ve never met people who are obsessed with the issues and need to “get over” anything.

The fact that people don’t want potentially traumatic experiences from the past that are directly impacting the present to be handled insensitively is reasonable.

If you’re old enough to be on the internet alone, you’re old enough to research more into reparations.

No, because that’s a supremely gross oversimplification of what happened. Also, yeah, there’s lots of news of millenials holding grudges, but not because of what their grand-grandparents went through, but for the garbage they have to go through now days.

I’m somewhat disappointed in Hasan (but still support him), bc he could easily avoided this drama by being less outrageous in his wording by rather saying that the responsibility for 9/11 was largely a function of US imperialism in the Middle East, which lead to the creation and objectives of Al Qaida.

this sounds very messy. totally against his involvement with underaged women, but the adults exchanging nudes with him are equally culpable of being sleazy here.

I’d hope you’d recognize hyperbole when you see it.

But, absent that—no, I don’t think having the shit kicked out of them on the regular is “good” for teenagers. I do think the fact that we’ve removed all discipline from their lives is part of the problem (I see this when they get to my campus as 18/19 y.o.…

The problem with acts like these is that unintentional ignorance is still ignorance; a sensible solution being an increase in awareness/education of other cultures. And from what I understand... not exactly a priority in Japan. Unless things have changed??

Yeah the Chinese and Koreans should just forget all the horrible atrocities Imperial Japan committed. Including the mass kidnapping and rape of women, the experimentation of chemical weapons on POWs and civilians, and shit like the Battan Death March.

It’s the equivalent of going to Christmas mass at a church where Himmler, Goring, and Goebbels are buried in the graveyard and a headstone that says “died defending Germany”. Worse since their spirits are also deified when enshrined.

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Lumping those three as “that region overall” makes about as much sense as combining US/Canada/Mexico into a region and calling it a shared mentality. They have vastly different socioeconomic backdrops, as well as the fact that China is still a Communist state. The only common ground is their penchant for patriarchal…

At least as far as Sugiyama goes, this seems to be a pretty solid case of, “All your favorites are problematic.”

If dude legitimately holds the same views espoused by Sugita, then he’s at a minimum advocating for the kind of dehumanization of others that LGBTQ persons (and, really, anyone who has historically been part…

This is the problem with taking IRL streaming outside the confines of your home. You are roping in innocent bystanders into a situation they may or may not want any part in. You are also amplifying your every action to an outrageous degree by putting yourself in public social situations, which are now not just…

Ahahaha, its actually the opposite. Shokudo is very bare minimum about its details(for an Isekai) with powerful people while Nobu is more about the social and politics of non-magical people ranging from soldiers/leader of the squad, fishermen, a pope and etc.

Obligatory mention that having attractive or sexy people doesn’t make something sexist, it’s how you treat said characters. If, as the developer says, he’s used them as “passive sexual objects” it’s probably atleast a twinge sexist. I’m not saying anyone should blow this out of proportion as the worst thing evarrr.…

Square Enix published manga High Score Girl is getting a TV anime. The manga previously caused a lawsuit, which SNK Playmore later dropped. Rumor has it the show will debut this July.