icantfindaname posted:

I feel like the problem with this movie isn't "cultural appropriation" so much the fact that Japanese people are literally portrayed as less human than dogs. The fact that critiques are being framed in terms of cultural appropriation to me just highlights how incredibly powerful and deeply rooted racism towards East Asian people and societies is in the Anglo consciousness, that people are apparently unwilling to just call something as blatant as this racist and instead are diving deep into postmodern academic jargon for some sort of excuse/way out of acknowledging explicitly that portraying Asian people as subhuman is categorically wrong and unacceptable. Maybe I'm just a thin-skinned weaboo lib though?