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amazing thread. always fun when we have to remember that yes japan is pretty right wing and nationalist every six months and everyone is like :OOOOOOOOOO

if you wanna argue that the background radiation of culture normalises a fascist worldview in incurious citizens who benefit from neo-imperial structures then ok. but you look very silly if you only do this for other countries. are you still voting democrat even after they backed a genocide?

anyway this is a far more pervasive and complex issue of orientalism in games spaces than genre names. so many discussions could be avoided if we all admitted we just don't actually know much about other countries, this is a gaming forum. it gets 100000x worse whenever china gets involved lol

Most Chinese people don't realize Uyghur concentration camps are a huge deal for Westerners, and most Westerners aren't aware that one of China's biggest celebrities is Uyghur. I get "no you're making that up" to both facts when I explain it to the corresponding groups, it's very startling!