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  • FailedAtAdulting [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I find it deeply uncomfortable that even when people here are making fun of chuds, like saying something a chud would say but ironically, they’ll still use language that is racist towards Asians. Like using “Oriental” instead of Asian, using terms like “Asiatic and Mongol (horde)” calling Chinese people dogs, making it seem like all the dudes in Japan are hentai-loving creeps who are barely even socialised (sometimes I get an “oh, Japan…” vibe when people are talking about really gross anime like it’s just part of the Japanese brainpan to be so disgusting), and all the men in Occupied Korea are misogynists. Like yeah, Japan and Korea have a misogyny problem, they produce gross anime and games… but so do westerners. I’m not even sticking up for Japan and SK - but in my opinion, some criticism almost borders on orientalism. Ironic racism is still racism, even if we’re making fun of white (or possibly even POC) chuds saying/thinking it. I dunno, it just rubs me the wrong way.