not racism. 🤷🏾♂️ blackface was created to make fun of black people. this person isn't making fun of black people by portraying an anime character. simple.
Prayer: Within what the country's law allows, and in a way that doesn't bother your neighbors.
Friday gathering: Attendance is up to you. But no illegal parking. And if the mosque is full, don't pray on the streets around it.
Haram food: If you can't eat it, don't eat it. Any request, demand, or plea for others to provide halal food is basically not okay. If there's nothing else to eat, eat even what is haram. (2:173)
Ramadan: Observe it alone and modestly. What others eat has nothing to do with your niyyah.
Don't insult other religions: (6:108) If your religion is insulted, hold back your anger and just say, "Peace." (25:63) They simply don't know.
That is what your faith is.
Is telling someone to “Go back to your country” really hate speech?
If someone hates Japan and admires Xi Jinping, would being told to “Go back to your country” even bother them?
Personally, if someone told me to “Go back to Japan” while I was living abroad, I wouldn’t care at all. My family has been Japanese for generations, so returning to Japan would be perfectly natural to me.
Could it be that the people who started calling this kind of statement “hate speech” are actually the ones who look down on other countries?
Imagine someone who dislikes Japan and Japanese people, admires Xi Jinping, and is a proud patriot of their own country, but has come to prosperous Japan simply to earn a living.
If that person is told, “Go back to your country,” what’s the big deal?
In Japanese, 「帰れ」 just means "leave here."
But Grok and others translate it as "Go back to your country," which in English implies "you don't belong here because of where you're from." That nuance doesn't exist in 「帰れ」.
If we never want someone back, we use different words: 「二度と来るな」("never come again").
The real problem is mistranslation, which turns a neutral word into a racist one.
And there's also this opinion, from a Black person.
I respect it.
She draws the line by intent: respect for a character vs. actually mocking someone.
If you say intent can't be seen from the outside, I think you should visit a cosplay event in Japan yourself.
All they ever talk about is the character.
As a black person this isn't black face to me. She's just a cosplayer who wanted to respect the character she dressed up ass. She's different from that Wendy's employee who actually did blackface. This complayer doesn't deserve harassment at all
@mrgreen4227@Yoshimi08 Then may I ask why hair is okay? In Britain, red hair was once a target of contempt. Is it okay just because nobody says anything?
Matching a character's look is an act of love for that character. I don't understand why that love should be denied.
現在の母の年齢をM
現在の子の年齢をC
母の年齢が2(M-C)の時、子の年齢の2倍になる。
よって、2(M-C)-M年後
つまり(2M-2C)-Mなので、M-2C年後。
M =50
C =24
なら、50-48で2年後。
2年後は母52歳、子26歳なので、母の年齢は子の年齢の2倍。
M =60
C =40
なら、-20年後(20年前)
20年前は、母40歳、子20歳なので、母の年齢は子の年齢の2倍。
ってことなんではないかと理解したのだけど、理解の一助になりましたでしょうか?
文字式にしたけど、そこが主眼ではなく、計算結果で「母の年齢が子の年齢の2倍とは何か」を示したかっただけです。
@teightythree@tmd8964 A tan is melanin. UV makes melanocytes, the same specialized cells, produce more of it. Medicine calls it constitutive vs facultative pigmentation. Same cells, same pigment.
Fair point about Matsuzaki lol. But then a tan is melanin too, the same pigment, the same color.
"100% of Japanese" is a universal claim. One counterexample breaks it.
And accuracy is not a different argument. It is the whole argument. The question was whether matching a character's skin is racist. Matching hair, ears, and skin is just accuracy.
You're right that genetics affects melanin. But in Japan, some babies are born with brown skin, some with fair skin. People who live long in sunny areas can stay brown for life. (Shigeru Matsuzaki keeps his dark tan without even going to a tanning salon lol)
And is it really that bad to make your skin brown to cosplay a brown-skinned character? If you cosplay an elf like Elda, you make your skin pale and your ears long. If you cosplay a dark elf, it's brown or bluish-black, depending on the work. If you cosplay Afro Samurai, you'd wear an afro and darken your skin. Otherwise, it's not Afro Samurai, right?
That's all there is to it.