#it's actually so insidious. like im so ashamed of not learning until now like. why did i remain so naive about it like forever like...

[ouclematis]

japan is a very sinister country. they're just that one colonizer country that's somehow seen as the "animu, yaoi/yuri~! sanrio kitty hub." instead of "colonizer country who has done lots of very horrific things towards minorities like the filipinos, chinese, koreans, cambodians, laotians during its colonialist pursuism" and somehow it's swept over like it's nothing. not to mention the violent treatment of ryukyuans and the ainu and it's refusal to admit that it committed these crimes is so abysmally horrifying. like people are genuinely brainwashed to like admit that it was a colonial empire that did a very nice rebranding that quickly like. somehow people know of england and france and spain's colonial pursuit in full detail from the ugly and horrifying . but not...japan. huh...? how very strange how yellow fever drowns everything out. i guess...