[ SECRET POST #2727 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2727 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 082 secrets from Secret Submission Post #390.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

SA

I'd expect that from a few of our trolls. But the rest of the comm? WTF. There has been no serious conversation about the OP's secret. It's all spiraled off into people talking about language and their own ethnicity. Or else making stupid, stereotyped jokes about the Japanese. I wondered why there weren't more Japanese people commenting on anime fandom. If this is why ... if fans from other countries normally react this immaturely to their having anything to say, I'm actually ashamed.

[(Anonymous)]

Japan, for whatever reason, seems to be one of the exception in fandom when it comes to racial sensitivity. If you say anything racist about Asians in general, you'd get rebuked, but if it's just about Japan, you're more likely to get a pass.

[(Anonymous)]

Japan is like fandom's/the Internet's rich eccentric uncle, where it's OK to talk smack about his eccentricities because he's rich so it really can't bother him THAT much.

[(Anonymous)]

*frowns* Why?

[ketita]

Apparently not many people feel this is a legitimate complaint, and thus they are not commenting seriously. fwiw I did post a serious comment, and a few others did as well, which you don't seem to be addressing at all.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Let me amend that to "reading all the comments resulted in finding very few that weren't attacking/making fun of the OP were addressing the OP's complaint at all."

You seemed to be taking issue with the definition of Weeaboo, and asserting that it wasn't offensive to use a handful of common* Japanese words derogatorily because that isn't the same as knowing the language. And no, it isn't, but I don't see why that makes it automatically not-offensive.

*common in anime culture.

[(Anonymous)]

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AYRT

Let me amend that to "reading all the comments resulted in finding very few that weren't attacking/making fun of the OP were addressing the OP's complaint at all."

You seemed to be taking issue with the definition of Weeaboo, and asserting that it wasn't offensive to use a handful of common* Japanese words derogatorily because that isn't the same as knowing the language. And no, it isn't, but I don't see why that makes it automatically not-offensive.

*common in anime culture.

[ketita]

tbh my issue is conflating mocking weeaboos with mocking Japanese culture. Because the reason weeaboos are mocked is because they themselves are perceived as disrespecting actual Japanese culture.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Mm, depends. Most of the people I've seen mocking weeaboos don't give a damn about respecting Japanese culture, and often conflate faily fan attachment with any interest in anime. It's just a stigmatized, low rung on the Geek hierarchy to them.