#cuz important context is many Japanese artists and people aren’t even aware of whitewashing as a harmful concept tied to race | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bixels · 2 months ago

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Asking you to not get involved in the discourse because it’s already tearing apart the fandom, but remember a few years ago when Tumblr had discourse about Marina getting whitewashed in art? It’s happening on Twitter again, but cataclysmically “viral culture war” worse.

Again, don’t get involved, it’s bad on all sides.

Splatoon fandom is currently experiencing a category-5 disaster.

#I’m only adding context cuz I realize nobody here really knows what’s happening #now you know. don’t add to it please it needs to blow over #I say bad on all sides not to bothsides whitewashing but because Twitter being Twitter people calling out the whitewashing have been #extremely hostile and angry which emboldens racists and Japanese artists to feel attacked unfairly #cuz important context is many Japanese artists and people aren’t even aware of whitewashing as a harmful concept tied to race #to many it’s an aesthetic thing. so the anger is making them go “why do you have to make everything political???#just don’t get involved it’s impossible to untangle now

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