Thread by @asunnydisposish

If you’re Japanese/of Japanese-descent and you make an entire thread calling a Korean artist “nasty” in defense of the Rising Sun flag, I’m just gonna assume you’re not a good person who doesn’t actually care about your country’s war crimes.

Yeah, I’m subtweeting but I’m mad that I had to see this on my TL. Describing imperial Japan’s actions as “stupid” and not idk “horrifying” or “terrible” or “a flagrant violation of human rights” already trlls me that you’re on that apologism juice.

“But the mangaka didn’t mean it that way” - WE KNOW!! Multiple artists who spoke up on this issue said they know! Regardless of what the mangaka intended, the similar imagery is still CLEARLY controversial in countries that have suffered under Japanese imperialism.

Treating other artists like idiots “spreading misinformation” when they literally have said they don’t fault the mangaka and want cosplayers and fanartists to take caution is shitty. Especially when the JPN govt to this day refuses to admit to war crimes.

Have you considered that the revisionist Japanese educational system and the nationalist right stance of Shinzo Abe has negatively impacted your view of what is and isn’t acceptable in other countries?

Or that perhaps by teaching this issue IN YOUR TEXTBOOKS, you could avoid people making mistakes like drawing something that might be immediately misconstrued as a symbol of war crimes?

Instead of advocating for your government to change, you're taking your anger out on people who literally suffered from your country's imperialism, you're just being defensive about Japan. You don't really care about the victims.

Positioning yourself as this cool-headed logical choice over the "nasty" angry Koreans is incredibly transparent. Yeah, OP was "nasty" - as people tend to get when their grandparents lived through occupation and their country has been split in two as a result of said occupation.

You don't think "angry Koreans" has been used in Japanese history to literally justify massacres? Do you know that Koreans were called 불령선인/不逞鮮人/Futei Senjin if they didn't fit in line with imperial Japanese ideology?

Also acting like "oh people are so quick to believe this stuff" and presenting Japan as this misunderstood powerless country is... so disingenuous?? For the longest time Western countries ONLY believed Japan? Because y'all literally took sovereignty away from Korean people?

As a last point, to everyone saying that rising sun flag imagery is acceptable because the show is set in the Taisho era before WWII - please understand that the Taisho era starts in 1912. Japanese occupation of Korea started in 1910. Japanese imperialism existed before WWII.