Keld [he/him, any] @ Keld @hexbear.net

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While discussing anatomic variance in human bodies the word for "Freak" was used just a little too much, I even ended up doing it because I was mirroring others. Not a good word, don't like it. Don't like it being applied to humans for totally normal variances that aren't even visible, debilitating, or even noticeable by the person who has it. It's of course worse when applied to the disabled, but the fact that people were this okay with it's free use is uhhhhh

Reminder: Yaoi Gagarin

Currently on my seventh cup of coffee. I'm so fucking smart guys. I'm so fucking wise. No one makes better decisions than me.

How dare you. Plenty of trans women also got brainworms from 4chan. /tttt/ talk infects even this place.

The instructor going through veins and arteries is obviously autistic, and the professor shadowing her keeps having to reign her in from infodumping about stuff that isn't the syllabus. He's very nice about it, she seems ok with it. It's fun. This should be the standard dynamic for all my classes.

This is very obviously AI slop

Africans (Mostly Numidians) are portrayed as golliwogs. Like there's no ambiguity here that's just a racist portrayal.

The time they went to the Americas it was bad in a "This was made by pre-boomer Europeans" kinda way, but not in an actively malicious way. It's very noble savage-y. The African pirate and Numidians are just golliwogs, it's messed up.
The Indians are... uhhh... yeah.
But again it's all in a very "This was written by people from the 1920s" way and less in an overtly colonialist and racist way, and some of the more racist portrayals were made in attempts to pay tribute to members of ethnic minorities. Which is certainly a choice. It is absolutely racist by any standard, but if you're comparing it to the guy who wrote rexist propaganda and collaborated with the nazis, it comes out shiny and clean.

It's not as interesting. Garsceny started out writing a couple of other comics, Iznugood was racist but not in an overtly "We should do colonialism" way, more in a "This story is set in the middle east and I'm a european born in the 1920s" kinda way and Lucky Luke (The portrayals of Mexicans here is very iffy). Both of which are pretty good but have problems with representation. He briefly worked for Tintin magazine handing ideas over to other writers who would then flesh them out. Then he wrote Asterix, but died in the 70s, so the artist took over and continued the series on his own until 2009 when he retired.

Corto Maltese isn't even Bande Desinee, it's not even meant to be humorous. It's only similar to Asterix in being a European comic. For something similar but less politically awful, you could go for Melusine (A gag comic about a university student witch) or Spirou & Fantasio (An adventure comic that avoids some of the racism by just being set in fantastical places and with spy plots)

It was so not made at gunpoint. He could have stayed in France, or he could have stopped writing for large publication. He both returned to Belgium freely (Because of his monarchist views) and sought out the job at Le Soir.

Tintin was originally published in La Petit Vingtieme, which under Herge's (The author of Tintin) direction moved further right from the traditional conservative outlook into a borderline rexist (Belgian fascism) line and began explicitly endorsing political antisemitism and international fascism. Tintin himself was envisioned as a representative of the revitalized youth that we so often see form the basis for fascist and nationalist movements (See: "Young X" movements), likewise Tintin in the Soviets was an explicit anti-soviet work, and Tintin in the Congo was meant to be supportive of Belgian colonialism in the Congo. After the war Herge was named in the "Gallery of traitors" as a collaborator for his work in Le Soir which continued work under German occupation and German censorship/editorial direction. So the origin of Tintin are bad.
But Herge's actual involvement with the nazis was slim, when the war began he was writing about how bad the Japanese invasion of China was in collaboration with a Chinese friend (The Blue Lotus is still so fucking racist) and during the war he was mostly concerned with writing stuff like The Crab with the Golden Claws and The Shooting Star, both of which only incidentally has terrible politics (Herge based the planes in The Shooting Star on nazi planes), and remaking Tintin in the Congo (Bad, terrible, awful, racist, bad bad bad)
Herge's support of the nazis mostly came in the form of people buying Le Soir to read Tintin, and Le Soir being a nazi rag.

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They're definitely the biggest reason, but as a subset of that is just how public it is in a way that most other paraphilia isn't (And insofar as it is, it's not as recognisable). Like the sheer brazenness of the foot stuff in Joss Whedon shows or Tarantino films is actually kind of insane.

But the whole point of the article is just that "China burns coal, we don't burn coal more because of woke, so china will win because they're not woke". It's the same bullshit they've been saying for my entire lifetime.

You just posted this article because of the title didn't you? Because this is inane nonsense written by a moron.

Did you cry when they shot Medgar Evers? Did you cry when they shot mr. Kennedy? Did Malcolm X get what was coming?

It's funny how China has spent the last sixty or so years letting the US run wild (And indeed aiding the US imperial project at times) not getting in the way, and minding their own business and the US has just been getting so fucking mad about it. Literally the problem here is that China succeeds on the terms the US set out without becoming a US vassal