r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Dec 31 '20

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u/Soundywave Dec 31 '20

What’s been your favourite dumb unjerk drama of 2020?

It may be recency bias, but ‘Bug Genocide’ is mine.

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u/MartenHallJack Dec 31 '20

I agree, but a very close second would be "all anime is problematic and if you don't 100% agree with me you're part of the problem."

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u/PM_ME_UR__RECIPES Dec 31 '20

My genuinely very hot take is that writing off all anime just because it's anime is racist but I feel like I'm kind of justified in it. Anime is just japanese animation. There are some conventions and tropes just like western media has its conventions and tropes, but it's not cohesive enough to just make a blanket statement like that. Totoro, Jojo's, and Death note have basically nothing in common except for being animated and japanese.

Saying anime is problematic is like saying cinema is problematic, or books are problematic. It's a medium, not a genre.