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INTEREST: Lily James Accused of Racism for Writing 'Shinderera'

So does this mean the Japanese will stop liking Frozen? Because I'm tired of all the Pixiv fan art.

Anyone who buys into new's stories of this ilk, and gets involved with making them trend higher and higher on twitter, makes me question how they were raised. If something is trending on twitter it usually means the opposite opinion to the "trend" is the sane one.

That's why I don't like tumblr, outrage culture should be banned from media.

If a Japanese person were offended by it, then I wouldn't question the legitimacy of their feelings. One can elaborate on their own intent, but cannot simply debate away the hurtful experiences underlying someone's conditioned knee-jerk reaction.

However, this is more likely one of those cases of arguably well-meaning people feeling entitled to get offended on someone else's behalf with emotions they lack the background to genuinely feel. While I'm sure being perpetually outraged is effective at cultivating their desired more-progressive-than-though image for themselves, it does far more harm than good in regard to fostering understanding between different groups of people. Instead, it's become commonplace for people to react dismissively toward those who feel insulted for valid personal reasons, due to the drastically higher probability of the alternative.

Everytime I hear about Twitter it seems like a community just looking for something to be offended by.

-Stuart Smith

You know, this made me think of something from Pokémon Sunday, a Pokémon-themed variety show in Japan, where they made mention of an American Wobbuffet-related event. Because it's in an English-speaking region, the Japanese voice actor then said out, "Wobbuffet!" with a katakana transliteration. (For the record, Wobbuffet's Japanese name is Soonansu, and this is the first and so far only time an English Pokémon name is pronounced on Pokémon Sunday except where their names are the same, like Pikachu and Flygon.)

Of course, no one took to social media and started calling Pokémon Sunday discriminatory for mocking English-language speakers.

After reading this, I guess some people are hypocritical.

A Japanese show that poke fun at English speaker=not racism

An American actor that put the Japanese pronounciation of a Hollywood film=racism

Footnote: I think that a closer transliteration would be スィンデレラ (Su-i-N-De-Re-Ra; pronounced as Sinderera). It is possible.

mdo7 wrote:

After reading this, I guess some people are hypocritical. A Japanese show that poke fun at English speaker=not racism An American actor that put the Japanese pronounciation of a Hollywood film=racism

But the question is whether those "defenders of justice" were Japanese or some know-it-all from elsewhere.

To be fair, I don't think a handful of tweets qualifies as a "movement," except perhaps of the bowels.

This is ridiculous. In the last couple of years people have become oversensitive pansies. Looking for racism, sexism, etc, hoping to be offended.

If something is trending on twitter it usually means the opposite opinion to the "trend" is the sane one.

encrypted12345 wrote:

I know my Japanese teacher forced us to say English loan words in Japanese the Japanese way. It's weird in text, but it might be more polite to say it vocally like that in Japan.

That is because if you don't, unless they speak a reasonable amount of English, they won't get it. Also despite being specifically warned that just saying an English word as a Japanese person would say it won't help them get it, both times I actually tried it due to having no other ideas worked (getting internet at a DeoDeo and changing my visa status).

Guile wrote:

Actually there's a ]movement that does consider the word waifu offensive.

To be fair, I don't think a handful of tweets qualifies as a "movement," except perhaps of the bowels. Whether or not one agrees, it's shouldn't be difficult to understand how the phenomenon could be considered sexist, but the racist part seems rather untenable.

This whole thing is ridiculous. Anyone who spends their time jumping on strangers for saying something that doesn't seem 100% politically correct needs to get a life (this is coming from someone who has watched a full 25 episode anime in one day).

Now I'm wondering what "person I disagree with politically" was changed from...

Hoppy800 wrote:

... outrage culture should be banned from media.

How can it be banned? What sort of laws would have to be enacted, and from which governments?

How dare she! Waisism!