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Topic	Think Persona 6 will stop the trend of mocking gay people?
ssjevot 07/25/20 1:43:53 AM #76:	I don't care for the scene. I think it's a tired joke that adds nothing to the game and has the potential to offend people which it did. However as I said I couldn't find Japanese people complaining about it. Because when it comes to issue facing the LGBT community in Japan this just isn't on the radar. This reminds of when people freak out about some representation of black people in Japanese media in the West but black people in Japan don't seem to care. I think both result from the extremism in American culture. In America people, including police will murder you for being black, gay, trans, etc. Entire organizations exist saying you are subhuman, abominations, etc. There is extreme hate following you all the time. This causes people to look for anything that might offend and want it removed. In Japan no one is getting killed for those reasons (okay the violence is low in general, lowest in the first world by far), and the criticism they hear tends to come from the West. They also see the West electing people like Trump and people walking around with signs hating gay people or cops murdering black people and then people wonder why they don't understand. The LGBT and other minority communities in Japan have their own unique issues and struggles. That the West wants to throw their shit on to them and not attempt to understand what they face doesn't help. That's the central issue. You don't want to learn about Japanese LGBT issues because you only care about them in the context of your culture. If they localized it the old way and just removed all LGBT characters you would say nothing. It's only relevant when it's in your culture. You expect them to understand the extremes of the West, of hating to the point of death or removing anything that might offend, but don't think you should need to learn anything about their situation or culture. That's the Western centered viewpoint that only became obvious to me once I left the West. The "educate yourself" crowd doesn't want to educate themselves. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss <cite>ssjevot posted [p:942556859] in Think Pers... [t:78867858]...</cite> <quote>I don't care for the scene. I think it's a tired joke that adds nothing to the game and has the potential to offend people which it did. However as I said I couldn't find Japanese people complaining about it. Because when it comes to issue facing the LGBT community in Japan this just isn't on the radar. This reminds of when people freak out about some representation of black people in Japanese media in the West but black people in Japan don't seem to care. I think both result from the extremism in American culture. In America people, including police will murder you for being black, gay, trans, etc. Entire organizations exist saying you are subhuman, abominations, etc. There is extreme hate following you all the time. This causes people to look for anything that might offend and want it removed. In Japan no one is getting killed for those reasons (okay the violence is low in general, lowest in the first world by far), and the criticism they hear tends to come from the West. They also see the West electing people like Trump and people walking around with signs hating gay people or cops murdering black people and then people wonder why they don't understand. The LGBT and other minority communities in Japan have their own unique issues and struggles. That the West wants to throw their shit on to them and not attempt to understand what they face doesn't help. That's the central issue. You don't want to learn about Japanese LGBT issues because you only care about them in the context of your culture. If they localized it the old way and just removed all LGBT characters you would say nothing. It's only relevant when it's in your culture. You expect them to understand the extremes of the West, of hating to the point of death or removing anything that might offend, but don't think you should need to learn anything about their situation or culture. That's the Western centered viewpoint that only became obvious to me once I left the West. The "educate yourself" crowd doesn't want to educate themselves. --- Favorite Games: BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Bayonetta, Bloodborne thats a username you habe - chuckyhacksss</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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