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[nando161mando]

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[moustawott]

One Piece Does Anti-Racism Surprisingly Well: Fishman Island (ft. My Hero Academia and Black Panther 2018)

So, this is not the usual posts I make, but I really wanted to get these thoughts out of my head. I could write a huge essay about it but I will try to keep it short here. (This is in reaction to chapters 370-372 of MHA.)

TL;DR: The way One Piece deals with anti-racism is surprisingly good (despite the series not being perfectly leftist (indicated by the big presence of fairytale monarchies) when using chapters 370 to 372 of My Hero Academia and Black Panther (2018) as comparison, two other mainstream pieces of media that discuss racism and it consequences within the oppressed group.

The messaging of Fishman Island Arc can be interpreted as: we shouldn't let our intergenerational trauma fester into hate against our oppressors. If we pass this hate to our children, they will grow up hateful and hurt their own people in the end, which makes community healing very difficult (a similar conclusion to Black Panther 2018, which is *the* bar for talking about racism and intergenerational trauma in mainstream media). This is much better than: we shouldn't let our intergenerational trauma turn into hate against our oppressors, because our oppressors will now have legitimate reasons to oppress us.

To elaborate:

• One Piece and Black Panther (2018) frame violence and hate caused by intergenerational trauma as a community problem. The opinions of outsiders are pushed aside, if not entirely absent from the discussion. This is a good way to present anti-racist action, because it puts the spotlight to the marginalized group and avoids the white saviour trope (though the Joyboy thing can be seen as a white saviour trope? Again, Fishman Island is not perfect, it's just surprisingly good compared to the rest of mainstream media. Especially the scene where the Strawhats explicitly say that they will let the fishman decide if these pirates are villains or good guys).

• MHA (chapters 370 to 372) falls flat on its face when it comes to anti-racism. Basically, it tries to say that the oppressed shouldn't express their grievances and frustrations through violence, because their children will suffer the now "justified" anger of the oppressor. This COMPLETLY ignores the fact that the oppressed were still being mistreated when they were peaceful. The messaging is simply maintaining the status quo of violent systemic discrimination. Oppressive peace is not true social justice.

• Furthermore, MHA uses the "one of the good ones" trope heavy-handidly (using the supporting "good guys"), which is an extremely racist concept. You can argue that Fishman Island arc uses that trope (Queen Otohime and Shirahoshi as examples), but it's much less obvious and doesn't have the explicit message of: actually, we shouldn't riot because it'll make us look bad in front of humans. Again, it's a lot more: we shouldn't let hate grow because our fishmen children will become hateful people too, and that doesn't create a healthy community.

• Stopping hate against racist oppressors is not about being liked by the oppressors, it's about putting that energy into loving and healing our own community. Black Panther (2018) tackles that topic through Killmonger: he is a tragic figure so blinded by hate against his oppressors that he forgets to love his own community and black heritage. Hody Jones is also somewhat tragic: his hate against humans is the consequences of anger turned into hate. He has no pride or love for his fellow fishmen. Because of that, Hody Jones divides his own community and endangers them all. This is especially important for anti-racism, since internalized racism is a huge obstacle to anti-racism and community healing.

On the topic of violent reactions to systemic racism and other forms of oppression:

• Violence and riots are a natural reaction to the systemic violence marginalized groups live everyday (yet mainstream media always tries to frame riots as completely unjustifiable and use them to discredit civil rights movements). Marginalized groups (like black children) have been known to show signs of PTSD. There's no denying that systemic oppression is very violent yet we are brainwashed into thinking that it's not true violence.

Conclusions: It's nice to see a hugely popular manga tackle racism in a way that isn't complete liberal/centrist messaging

[ntzsche9]

hey! this is chance & here’s this week’s prompt. what websites or resources do you use while you write or develop a character/story? what do you think of them and would you recommend them?

I'm a classic pinterest moodboard bitch for writing, but for characters I really am trying to do better by my POC OCs and characters with disabilities (mental & physical). I use Writing With Color a lot and search through reddit boards for real-world stories and experiences. I keep antiracist books on my reading list too. If anyone has similar resources hmu.

[yourneighborpersephone]

If the children do not stop using the language of social justice to reinforce the same tired segregationist boundaries I swEAR TO MYSELF

“Maybe I shouldn’t hang out with the working-class kids because I am upper-middle class and my privilege might be a problem” is the second most cop thing I have read today

[nando161mando]

Best placard I've seen for a while.

#UKPolitics #Immigration

[eternalsailormom]

It's a process everyone should be constantly in the act of working on.

[heroinewithane]

Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race | Race | The Guardian

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

James Baldwin’s “Dark Days” feels like an especially relevant read right now. #jamesbaldwin #racism #whitesupremacy #transphobia #homophobia #blackauthors #civilrightsmovement #blackhistorymonth #blacklivesmatter #bookbanning #florida #texas #criticalracetheory #antiracism #antiracisteducation #bookstagram #bookrecommendations #booklover #ignorance #blackhistory365 #americanhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/Co-ARiaOCxT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nando161mando]

[adropofhumanity]

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[demdread]

Truth! And just another reason white supremacy doesnt want African history taught and is trying to erase it and African people in America.

[itskendrickkim2001]

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[captain-safetypants]

I have similar feelings about this without anything like @neil-gaiman ‘s authority. Just as one example, I grew up reading and loving Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, but (like so many beloved books from my youth) there are substantial parts of it that Have Not Aged Well…as in, they are shockingly racist in ways that went straight over my eight year old head but don’t pass scrutiny of my parent lens. It’s troubling, but the responsibility is on me as a parent to make sure to have these important conversations with my kids before letting them read these things. And they might end up being a little older when they read them than I was, if that’s what it takes to make sure they recognize unacceptable racism when they see it.

Hi Neil, what's your opinion on the rewrite of Roald Dahl's works in the name of "making it available for all"?

Thanks.

I'm a lot more comfortable with this kind of thing when it's done by a living writer to existing work. I remember as a kid picking up a copy of John Masefield's Collected Poems, and seeing a 1930s errata slip in the book, which said in the poem London Town, replace

“‘And craftily fares the knave there, and wickedly fares the Jew.’

with

“‘But wretchedly fare the most there and merrily fare the few.’

And I nodded my 9 year old head in approval. Someone had pointed out to the poet that that line was awful, and he had fixed it.

I can't imagine anyone deciding to fix that line after the poet had died, though.

I removed a line from "The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish" (over the objections of my editor, who wanted to keep it) because too many people had reached out to me and told me it had upset them or their children on reading it, and I realised it was being taken in a way I hadn't intended. So on later editions it went away.

And having said that, language changes. Enid Blyton's children's books have been rewritten, her children renamed (farewell Dick and Fanny) and so forth, with the idea that the Blyton estate is a commercial entity that wishes to remain viable. The Dahl estate is in the same place. So is the Dr Seuss estate -- and they chose to simply let some of the earlier books go out of print. There comes a point where it's not about art, but about sustaining a commercial entity. And I don't know what I think about that.

[nando161mando]

To celebrate #IndigenousPeoplesDay, I thought I might share this interactive map showing the many #Indigenous territories, languages, and treaties around the world: