the whole "you don't understand, the gigantic soulless media conglomerate HAS to gut all mention of trans people from media because of the sinister foreign asian markets! THOSE people are racist and transphobic!" line is going to get increasingly ridiculous as our country gets worse and louder. - ThreadSky

joffeorama.bsky.social • 75 days ago

the whole "you don't understand, the gigantic soulless media conglomerate HAS to gut all mention of trans people from media because of the sinister foreign asian markets! THOSE people are racist and transphobic!" line is going to get increasingly ridiculous as our country gets worse and louder.

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katie.bzky.team•75 days ago

americans when something americanly american happens in america: what are we a bunch of ASIANS!?????

lancecalhoon.bsky.social•75 days ago

if that were even remotely true, they would cut a US version and an 'overseas' version

scotsdragon.bsky.social•75 days ago

It was already pretty transparently ridiculous

skylandersfan69.bsky.social•75 days ago

Its almost like actually fighting back and taking a stand against these kinds of practices in these markets is actually going to forcevthem to change but nah, just conform to the homophobia instead

kvoxsky.bsky.social•75 days ago

It's probably going to be illegal to have LGBT stuff in American shows/movies soon

alovelacejr.bsky.social•57 days ago

Until then…
https://youtu.be/T0bHUb1teSA

joffeorama.bsky.social•75 days ago

in a couple years Japan'll be enjoying legal gay marriage and Chinese games with increasingly gay robots or elves will be dominating while American nerds respond to Disney banning an episode of Squirrel Girl for promoting the theory of evolution by going "I can't believe Asia made them do that!"

laevender.bsky.social•68 days ago

china is accepting of lgbtq and puts gay characters in their games? is that true? why are they still so racist then?... https://x.com/raykwong/status/671786339327578112?t=3q_8nHpMvM42SnseO7Fttg&s=19

joffeorama.bsky.social•68 days ago

“how can there be gay people in a game or tv show if there is also racism in their country?” that is a silly question. if disney put trans people on tv that wouldnt make america not racist.

laevender.bsky.social•68 days ago

thats not the question. they seem to hold a lot of prejudice and bias thinking that would prelude them from including things like gay characters. who are these gay characters?? cccp os okay with gays, but not blacks (or muslims). doubt.

joffeorama.bsky.social•68 days ago

“that is not the question” *proceeds to ask that exact question again*
there are chinese video games with queer characters, there have been popular gay dramas on tv. sometimes the ccp bans things so the creators use coding and subtext, sometimes they are overt despite the risk.

laevender.bsky.social•68 days ago

"bans things" lmaoooo. take care 🩷

joffeorama.bsky.social•68 days ago

yes of course anti-black racism is present in china. same reason its present in america and europe. same reason you are racist against chinese people. because bigotry is common, easy, and dull, lazy people can use it as an excuse to avoid examining their biases in a way that might be uncomfortable.

deebeeayy.bsky.social•75 days ago

Look, I’m only one person. But my one person ass is going to speak with my wallet and play the gay ass games and watch the gay ass movies from China and Japan if it comes to that.

God, I hope corporate America doesn’t become that. If only because LGBTQ people are a huge market.

egality.bsky.social•75 days ago

Money isn’t speech. It doesn’t work like that, even under capitalism.

werechicken.bsky.social•75 days ago

I dunno.

Elon Musk is fucking shit up right now so clearly some money talks. Just not ours.

egality.bsky.social•75 days ago

If you had some decent person, and gave them a billion dollars to talk like a decent person, do good things…the money would evaporate, they’d be shut down, they’d cease to be a billionaire immediately.

It’s not the money. Elon is rewarded with speech “rights”, for being a servant of his class.

ch4r10t.bsky.social•74 days ago

it has shades of "our conservatism is a natural response to the barbarian Others" but with a mildly apologetic and conciliatory tone

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