[ SECRET POST #4438 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4438 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's confusing because there was a level of self-dealing in the decision making - the person was basically publishing his own work and using a pseudonym to get around rules - but at the same time, the marketing and pub definitely traded on the supposed authenticity and foreign ness of the author.

What I would say is that I think all of these things are different aspects of the same thing, some of it is less bad but it all contributes.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yeah, I looked more into it, and it seems like the person in question not only pretended to be Japanese and deceived the company but then went on to write really fetishistic plotlines featuring white characters in Japan. If the person had just been really weeaboo and embarrassing, that's fine, but trying to pass his personal fetishistic plotlines off as being written by a Japanese person has additional problematic implications.

I still think the tweet is missing the point by calling out behavior like adopting a Japanese moniker or pretending to be Japanese or loving Japanese media so much you identify with it -- that's cringey but it's not racist. The serious issues here is (1) that he managed to get published with these tactics at all, and (2) the things he published: in this case, fetishistic plotlines that misleadingly purport to be a Japanese take on Japan, when they're not. That affects how people interpret Japanese culture in a more stereotypical/othering kind of way, which is bad.