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namisweatheria · 28 days ago

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I wish so badly that skypeia wasn't a nauseatingly racist narrative that purports the colonizer's fantasy whitewashed narrative of how they saved "savages" (THEY ACTUALLY USE THAT WORD!!!!!!!!) from themselves. The part where they bring CURES to disease instead of, you know, the intentional spread of it as biological warfare that actually happened, gets me so fucking mad every time. Or when the poor poor guilty old colonizer president feels so bad and tries to give some land back and they refuse because they're too mad. Something that has never ever happened anywhere ever. ITS UNBELIEVABLY CARTOONISHLY RACIST THE WHOLE THING.

Just like the million other offensive caricatures in one piece, they do not end up being as two dimensional as they originally appear, and they and their feelings are taken seriously by the narrative. An effective story that tugs on your heartstrings in it's culmination is eventually crafted, BUT HE HAS TO MAKE YOU SO SO MAD AND UNCOMFORTABLE FIRST. EVERY TIME. WHY.

#you could literally teach a college course on analyzing the bigotry and subversion of it in one piece. THERE IS SO. SO MUCH.#i think usopp is the prime example- as his circle lips design and visual gags are directly reminiscent of historical antiblack caricatures.#yet he is a lovingly crafted complex character that has one of the most heartbreaking and compelling arcs in the series. and in general is #not a stereotype.#the other best examples to me are bon-clay- boa hancock- and lola #im particularly obsessed with lola as she interacts with nami and gifts her something that gives her power much later on.#which is the complete opposite of how their dynamic begins when lola is only shown to be a horrific sexist stereotype that is aggressively #obsessed with a man to the detriment of her relationships with other women.#i LOVE how she has this intentionally unappealing design- tries and fails to be attractive to men- is generally uncomfortable to watch- AND #THEN is shown to be deeply honorable and brave and gives nami plot important friendship.#like. it's so bad. but it's also so good.#ONE PIECE.#my posts #hating oda time #<- for blacklist

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