Yikes...the antisemitism

GayHibiscus August 1, 2020 7:56 am

Anyone else notice the whole "uwu Rothschild Jews mind-control powers and banking controlling the world" shit? That's a canard straight from the antisemitic conspiracy theory playbook.

Also YIKES at the "teehee North Korea died and became a land of the dead teehee, fuck Japan and China too." Seriously? Come on.

Do better, author.

Responses
    Dem Feler August 2, 2020 12:30 pm

    But aren't the Rothschilds, Jews? So it is exactly the opposite of antisemitism, isn't it.

    Also, what's wrong with using the current world as that of this story's? World building can be done in different ways, you know?

    GayHibiscus August 3, 2020 4:34 am
    But aren't the Rothschilds, Jews? So it is exactly the opposite of antisemitism, isn't it. Also, what's wrong with using the current world as that of this story's? World building can be done in different ways, ... Dem Feler

    They are Jewish. The problem is that it's portraying several antisemitic canards, such as "Jews rule the world," "Rothschilds are new world order" (even though the family lost most of their money since the 1700s lmfao), "Jews have mind control," etc. It's fine to have Jews in the manga, the problem is how they're portrayed using several caricatures and canards that have harmed us for centuries.

    The problem is that they're promoting racism, xenophobia, and antisemitism. You don't NEED that in the manga. "North Korea got destroyed KEKW" come on. We get you're from South Korea, but "uwu fuck North Korea" is really shitty praxis. The people there who are not in the government are innocent of Kim's crimes and brutality.

    Dem Feler August 3, 2020 12:43 pm

    Points taken, great insights they are. I do enjoy how it all works in this manhwa though, because truthfully it's like reading a parallel universe due to opposite circumstances happening in the plot. Now if the story resembled the real world a bit more, but with the same racist/xenophobic undertones, I'd find it to be sort of an apologist or revisionist propaganda and have the same sentiments as you have now.