#John being called a racist slur isn't the “gotcha” moment Delano thought he was making

[jesncin]

Sorry to bother but Constantine was called anti-Asian slurs? When did that happen?

(In ref to this post: https://www.tumblr.com/jesncin/760203443590905856/not-to-throw-shade-but-it-is-a-tiny-thing-i-feel?source=share)

In og Vertigo Hellblazer like I said! Issue #5 specifically. cw for anti-Asian slur below.

Every content warning ever for this issue (war crimes, SA, slurs, etc.) so proceed with caution. I personally needed a break from reading after this one since it hit too close to home.

To word it delicately, I get the point of this story. That war is designed to dehumanize the enemy, and in this story the twist is this traumatized man recreating the same atrocities he did abroad at home on his own people. The fundamental problem for me is that having to compare The Other (Vietnamese people in this case) to white people in order to humanize them is an inherently flawed premise. You shouldn't have to sell empathy based on "well what if it were you" to care about someone different than you. It's a story designed with white people and readership in mind, essentially.