I gotta say I try to stay out of arguing about colonialism, as a white American, but, "bypassing region restrictions on anime makes you a colonizer" sure is a take I just saw
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
“Translating FFV and SD3 weren’t works of love by fans who were disappointed by capitalist assumptions about the English-speaking market but were actually colonialist appropriation of media not for people who can’t read Japanese.”
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Replying to @EmilyUnbound @BootlegGirl
yeah the idea that any marketing decision is driven by xenophobic "this is not for your filthy western eyes" sentiment is... frankly, I'd say it was racist to attribute that kind of thinking to Japanese people, if I thought for a minute she'd thought it through at all.
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I think that's reading too deep into what makes it "colonialist" I think you can point to a much more general sentiment that a lot of Americans have a double standard for "foreign" media, that is partly driven by foreign stuff being harder to buy legitimately but not 100%
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Random832 and
Like there's tons of people who just straight up don't think of anime as being in the same category as a Marvel movie or whatever and feel more comfortable pirating one over the other without really thinking about why
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The idea that it's "more okay" to pirate something that's stigmatized or less legitimate in some way is pervasive Like that's the whole reason porn is pirated way, way more than "normal" movies/TV/videos
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