QUOTE(balthy13 @ Apr 2 2022, 16:22)
People who say this don't usually deal with the adverse effects of having undocumented immigrants flooding their communities and I don't respect their opinions
Is this enough thought for you, then? I assure you I have considered the impacts and see them as a net positive.
I'm something of an anarchist; I really do not care where people are allowed to live, nor do I believe in gatekeeping based on the longitude and latitude that you were born at or where your parents were. I didn't get to choose that, after all, or I'd be living my kawaii japanese schoolgirl fantasy right now.
IDGAF if they pay taxes, or speak Spanish, or turn my culture into a minority group. It feels like a persecution complex. If I could avoid jail time for not paying taxes, I wouldn't, because I don't like what's being done with my money. A lot of Mexicans (and Hondurans) are better christians with stronger family values than white people in america, too, so I don't buy the religious argument either. I'm an atheist, anyway.
If getting permitted into this country were as easy as registering at a border crossing saying that you were going to live in the United states, and being on the record for purposes of the IRS, then they'd have been able to immigrate legally.
It's
also Ironic that on a site full of weebs who directly suffer from Japan's isolationism— and from their native countries'/cultures' ethnocentric views on sexuality making it harder and more expensive to import a 20 page comic book—, there are so many people who seem to be against freedom of travel or ideas. I do appreciate wanting to preserve your own culture, but that doesn't mean others shouldn't be free to have their own.
In the case of Japan, yes, I like a lot of their culture. But then there's also things like the "burakumin" (basically like dalits in India; "native Japanese" people who physically look the same but who are outcasts because of religious reasons from centuries ago). Does anyone actually read the walls of text that I type? Sorry for interrupting this paragraph, but if you do, please let me know that you read this. There's also the Ainu (basically like american indians, but in Hokkaido– complete with attempts to ban their language and stamp them out by "making them Japanese" like we tried to make Indians learn english and assimilate into white america... and like Japan tried to do in Korea during its occupation). The ainu have their own history of being oppressed for no reason except for controlling them and making them comply with the values of another culture.
If aspects of a culture (theirs or ours) that put a group at a permanent disadvantage get wiped out, nothing of value has been lost. And even if it has, we are left with a more just world for it so I consider it justified.
For instance, I love some racist jokes, but if I actually had to choose, I'd rather not be able to use them anymore than be part of the problem or embolden actually hateful people.
No one is bemoaning the death of the expression "
the [bunneh from nigeria] in the woodpile." My grandparents did know what it meant when I asked them about it, but they had never used the expression around me. I found it in an old political cartoon.
I'm perfectly okay with no one in my generation knowing it, and don't care that we don't say it anymore. It's like how 90 year olds might feel comfortable calling someone with an american indian parent and a white anglo-saxon american parent a "half breed." When they die, the expression will die with them, and it'll become a historical artifact.
I can't respect the opinions of authoritarians who try to prevent the free movement of people or ideas, especially if based on ethnocentric worldviews. Or rather, I
can respect them, because they are human beings and therefore as entitled to opinions as I am, but I also do not agree with them and will tell them as much.
There is such a thing as "going too far," and because people like to be zealous about things (like me) and are often prone to simplistic black-and-white thinking, I do believe "PC culture" as it currently exists must die. People (like sensualaoi) use PC-ness as a way of expressing their own ideological superiority in a holier-than-thou fashion; they aren't trying to be inclusive, they're trying to put themselves in the 'in-group' and people who are more relaxed into the 'out-group.' But overcorrecting back to being blatantly xenophobic/racist is not acceptable to me, either.
Fuck; I'm turning into an unemployable sociologist (e.g., a sociologist).
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Apr 2 2022, 23:39
Let's Go, Brandon!, CLAP CLAP CLAP-CLAP-CLAP
Apr 2 2022, 02:26
