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Japan has Splatoon 2 plushies made by Sanrio that include a whitewashed Marina
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Like yeah its suppsoe to be a washed out look for both, but you can't say her skin was washed out even more compared to the rest of her.
I love how we have a blatant example of whitewashing yet some of y'all STILL gotta to try and excuse this.
Like come the fuck on people...
Like come the fuck on people...
It sucks so much because I love Japan but I can't ever see a future when most representation of darker skinned people is just racist. It really sucks because it's something they really haven't grown out of. It's always been a problem and it'll continue to be a problem due to their very agoraphobia country ethics.
Nothing will change, even when it's Nintendo.
Nothing will change, even when it's Nintendo.
That's the thing about institutional racism. no thought is required as the culture has programmed people to think that way. People just default to shit like this subconsciously then when called on it are like, "...oh shit my bad." It's why the Gucci + blackface thing happened the other day. That's the danger of the declining quality of education and directly tackling these subjects constantly. It's like swimming up stream. It's hard to make any progress and very easy to get washed away.
Ganguro was a direct counterculture rebellion to those beauty standards, a giant middle finger from disaffected youth.
yikes
you should spend some time reading up on cultures outside of your own and how they often times view and act upon standards of beauty as a result. lol, "bad pastel palette".
I understand you are a Nintendo fan and almost by nature an apologist, but you can do better.
Yeah yeah, both are basically breaking it and trying to create individuality and all with how they progress be it on clothes, make up or different parts. It's a pretty interesting part that unfortunately it's not talked about as much as it should in the west.
There's no universe where that isn't a deliberate choice.
Making a black character look light-skinned for licensed products (barely even tan by most standards) is upsetting on a lot of levels. Particularly in an industry landscape where it's less common to have distinctly non-white characters in the first place. This is a patently obvious case of whitewashing an existing design. It's at odds with the character's design.
Criticizing others for reacting and telling the bald-faced lie that there's no substance to the situation is one step away from completing the trifecta of obviously (subconsciously, hopefully) supporting something vile. I haven't seen you pretend it doesn't matter because it's just some dumb toy, so I'll give you that benefit of the doubt there.
Making a black character look light-skinned for licensed products (barely even tan by most standards) is upsetting on a lot of levels. Particularly in an industry landscape where it's less common to have distinctly non-white characters in the first place. This is a patently obvious case of whitewashing an existing design. It's at odds with the character's design.
Criticizing others for reacting and telling the bald-faced lie that there's no substance to the situation is one step away from completing the trifecta of obviously (subconsciously, hopefully) supporting something vile. I haven't seen you pretend it doesn't matter because it's just some dumb toy, so I'll give you that benefit of the doubt there.
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You'd have to be blind to think you could lighten a character with very obviously dark skin to that extent while her black clothing is only a little faded and think it is just a bad palette job. This was intentional.
Also, piss off with the stupid "agenda" bullshit. It's not an agenda to look at a dark skinned character very obviously being portrayed as light skinned and question why.
It was a jab at Nintendo's lack of "brown" characters in the latest Smash as well as their overall lack of said people in their products in general.
User banned (3 days): Excusing whitewashing on basis of intent
Prize figure quality. Yikes indeed.
This looks fine to me. At least, not as white-washed as the OP image makes it seem. You can tell there's meant to be a distinction between Pearl's white skin and Marina's black skin.
The base roster for Smash was decided back in December 2015, long before the influx of black/brown Nintendo characters. And even then, we're still lacking in black/brown main characters. That's on Nintendo as a whole, not Sakurai & his team.
reminder of what Marina looks like, lest anyone else attempt to come in and be disingenuous.
Good Marina figurine...
...vs this toy
Good Marina figurine...
...vs this toy
jesus christ
If done maliciously sure but is there any evidence of that?
I don't think it's all that great if not done maliciously, to be honest.
institutional racism and bigotry does not require malicious intent from individual actors to be devastating to peoples and cultures.
Black History Month is just a token gesture anyway, essentially it's just "yeah blacks still get the short end of the stick but we'll rectify that by giving you the shortest month of the year to celebrate your history!"
if we start taking shots, will we die of alcohol poisoning today? that is the real question
Sanrio should do better whether or not you personally require its critics to turn into mind-readers and ascertain undeniable intent.
Wait, there's a pancakes vs waffles splatfest happening? Shit, I better get on that. Team Waffle all the way.this is the latest Splatfest art by the Splatoon artist
"You'll look more attractive if we change it so you don't look like yourself or your race" as a media-level decision is monstrous, full stop. You're defending mangling the design of an established character because their race was considered unappealing. That defacto racism was so strong in the thinking here that it overpowered even permitting one of the deliberate constrasting design elements between Marina and Pearl.
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I don't care about Splatoon or plushies but...
This is so bad.
Even if you set aside all the obvious reasons why this is bad it ALSO looks worse, which is kind of hilarious if you think about it.
This is so bad.
Even if you set aside all the obvious reasons why this is bad it ALSO looks worse, which is kind of hilarious if you think about it.
I committed manslaughter. Its okay, not a bad thing in any way because there's no evidence of malicious intent!
This thought process is one of the problems with this issue. Even if done with no ill will, the fact they do not understand the problem still presents itself due to sheer ignorance of the situation. Black characters are whitewashed and that makes them lose part of their identity. Be it with them or the fanbase itself.
Perfect shade of brownthis is the latest Splatfest art by the Splatoon artist