×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Forum - View topic
INTEREST: Taekwondar Park Creator's Twitter Suspended After Racist Remark


Goto page 1, 2  Next

Note: this is the discussion thread for this article

Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
justsomeaccount



Joined: 24 Oct 2014
Posts: 471
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:06 pm Reply with quote
So, let me see if I got the article right, a japanese manga author is being condemned/suspended for being racist against japanese people? That's... certainly something you don't often see.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Kougeru



Joined: 13 May 2008
Posts: 5574
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:14 pm Reply with quote
^ Seems that way. It also sounds like this manga is from the perspective of a racist Korean martial artists? I'm so confused. Does this mangaka have Korean blood in him or does he truly hate his own people? Being racist is awful to begin with. Being racist against your own people...I don't even know how to describe that.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address My Anime My Manga
Bruce91



Joined: 25 Mar 2006
Posts: 48
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:15 pm Reply with quote
justsomeaccount wrote:
So, let me see if I got the article right, a japanese manga author is being condemned/suspended for being racist against japanese people? That's... certainly something you don't often see.

Yep, That's what I get too.
funny, because the author of the isekai novel said some insulting stuff about Korea and China, while not getting any warning/suspension.
Did work out in the end because karma came hard back.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
VORTIA
Subscriber



Joined: 26 Jul 2005
Posts: 943
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:19 pm Reply with quote
EDIT: apparently Japanism is a ultranationalist manga magazine, so this mangaka was probably trying to sarcasticly imply Koreans are just as racist. One scumbag after another like dominoes.

Last edited by VORTIA on Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:51 pm; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address Yahoo Messenger My Anime My Manga
TsukasaElkKite



Joined: 22 Nov 2005
Posts: 4013
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:41 pm Reply with quote
Wow, all the racists are coming out of the woodwork now.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message My Anime My Manga
ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor


Joined: 02 May 2011
Posts: 3027
Location: Email for assistance only
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:46 pm Reply with quote
I don't think we can say for sure the nationality of the original creator. Masao Shiro could be a pseudonym and they aren't the artist drawing the actual manga in the magazine, but credited as its original creator. The story also originally had a Korean title.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website My Anime My Manga
Hoppy800



Joined: 09 Aug 2013
Posts: 3331
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:13 pm Reply with quote
TsukasaElkKite wrote:
Wow, all the racists are coming out of the woodwork now.


A Japanese man talking garbage about other Japanese is racist? Seriously, use your head.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Jonny Mendes



Joined: 17 Oct 2014
Posts: 997
Location: Europe
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:23 pm Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:

A Japanese man talking garbage about other Japanese is racist? Seriously, use your head.


We don't know if he is really Japanese. He can be a naturalized Korean now living in Japan.
In the process of naturalization in Japan, there are a requirement to choose a legal name, that consists of a mix of Japanese hiragana, katakana, and kanji.


Also there are plenty of people that hate and are racist against their own race.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Kougeru



Joined: 13 May 2008
Posts: 5574
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:35 pm Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:
TsukasaElkKite wrote:
Wow, all the racists are coming out of the woodwork now.


A Japanese man talking garbage about other Japanese is racist? Seriously, use your head.


Fun fact, you CAN be racist against your own people. Very easily. In this specific case, saying another race is superior, is racist.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address My Anime My Manga
Stuart Smith



Joined: 13 Jan 2013
Posts: 1298
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:41 pm Reply with quote
VORTIA wrote:
EDIT: apparently Japanism is a ultranationalist manga magazine, so this mangaka was probably trying to sarcasticly imply Koreans are just as racist. One scumbag after another like dominoes.


As someone who's had dealings with Koreans on a daily basis in the past, of course they can be just as racist. Anyone is capable of racism. Korea/Japan racism is most definitely a two-way street.

The jury is still out on whether this guy is actually Japanese or not, since it could just be a pen name. But even if he was, people hating their own race isn't uncommon. You see a lot of white people saying white people should die on Twitter, and so forth. Keiji Inafune is also Japanese but has a huge dislike of Japanese media and practices, which is why he fled to the west to try to make Mighty No 9.

-Stuart Smith
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
SheRrIs





PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:11 pm Reply with quote
Was his tweet ironic? Maybe all he wanted to achieve is to for the flame war to spread. Laughing
Back to top
VORTIA
Subscriber



Joined: 26 Jul 2005
Posts: 943
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:39 pm Reply with quote
Stuart Smith wrote:
VORTIA wrote:
EDIT: apparently Japanism is a ultranationalist manga magazine, so this mangaka was probably trying to sarcasticly imply Koreans are just as racist. One scumbag after another like dominoes.


As someone who's had dealings with Koreans on a daily basis in the past, of course they can be just as racist. Anyone is capable of racism. Korea/Japan racism is most definitely a two-way street.


I didn't mean to imply Koreans aren't capable of racism against Japanese, just that due to the magazine this manga is published in, that his intent was likely to put words in Koreans' mouths.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address Yahoo Messenger My Anime My Manga
nargun



Joined: 29 Mar 2006
Posts: 930
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:56 pm Reply with quote
Jonny Mendes wrote:
We don't know if he is really Japanese. He can be a naturalized Korean now living in Japan.
In the process of naturalization in Japan, there are a requirement to choose a legal name, that consists of a mix of Japanese hiragana, katakana, and kanji.


Single-character surnames are unusual, obviously, and I've never seen 白 used before[1]: in the face of it, 白正男 is plausibly a sino-japanese or koreo-japanese name. There's a lot of people in japan with surnames originating in korea or taiwan [acct japanese colonialism] and a lot of these people don't identify as ethnic [wa/yamato] japanese. [Citizenship issues are complex here; as with most complex matters wrt japanese legalities, I blame macarthur].

[These days, korean names in korea are largely written in hangul, but most of them still can be written in hanja; and this is often done in japan and is usual in china. 白正男 is Bae Jeongnam in korea: there's an actor called that]

It's pretty likely the person in question is of korean ancestry.

[1] To be fair! I've never lived in japan or had to spend much time categorising japanese surnames; my "I've never seen it" isn't very categorical, means "unusual" rather than "vanishingly rare".
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
mrsatan



Joined: 06 Jul 2005
Posts: 913
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 5:59 pm Reply with quote
Indeed, I've never seen a Japanese with 白 as a surname, but plenty of Koreans with that name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baek
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Lemonchest



Joined: 18 Mar 2015
Posts: 1771
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:02 pm Reply with quote
Should have put his slur in italics, so Twitter would know it was being used "ironically."
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback All times are GMT - 5 Hours
Goto page 1, 2  Next
Page 1 of 2

 


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group