#like bro if youre drawing cutesy nazis im going to at the very least judge the fuck out of you and beat the shit out of you at most

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Anyway just saw someone argue that the use of very blatant imperialist Japanese symbols in eroguro shouldn't be something "westerners" critique cause the use of US military symbolds doesnt get the same kind of flack. Like bitch it's all fucking bad!!!! I would say the same shit if an American was using imagery of violent American imperialism to draw erotica. Like I get the point of its use in eroguro as an extension or visual hyperbole of violence and intention to further draw out disgust but I still find issue with it because it's like you cant flip or really do much to change the narrative, weight, or more importantly history that shit carries with it when you're literally part of the society that used that symbology to inflict genocide and still very much benifits and refuses to hold itself accountable for that. Theres a level of callousness there of using the inherit violence of such a thing purely as an accessory for horror.

And like most of the time I've seen the people who criticize this be people from countries or cultures who have been affected by Japanese imperialism and other people just relay that message, not just broad brush "westerners". I get the fear of coming off as racist maybe for being so critical of an artistic component of Japanese art but like that's not racist nor orientalist, it's not dogpiling. Its shit that should be questioned and at the very least examined. I agree we should have that same energy with ALL imperialism but just because one flies under the radar doesnt mean the other should get a pass omg

Some of you are not intelligent people and you flex that idiocy to remain comfortable with the shit you like at the expense of others and then act surprised when it backfires on you...