When every ink blot looks like racism

[metalman]

the "Hello Kitty" video has been denounced by Zack Beauchamp of Vox.com as having “hit some kind of Orientalist Japanese Stereotype trifecta.”


If you view the video and don't see the racism Beauchamp sees, well its because you're a RAAAAACIST!

Avril Lavigne is Canadian, one of those people ...

 

[the_leander]

Heh, these folk (this guy is one among many throwing out this accusation) have clearly not only not ever been to Japan, but have never once bothered to even look at the culture of the place. Engrish is actually a thing.

In short - cute is to them what cool is to us, her video was written and directed by someone from Japan and by all accounts this thing is doing exceptionally well over there. Turns out, people like to see people like them on their music vids...

This thing has gone off like a bomb over on tumblr with accusations of "Cultural Appropriation" by Social Justice Warriors.

If it were some holy relic or cultural icon I could understand it. But it's a {bleep} pop video designed by and for the Jpop market...

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Sure. And the Japanese are racist for drinking Coke and eating McDonalds.

 

[metalman]

In short - cute is to them what cool is to us, her video was written and directed by someone from Japan and by all accounts this thing is doing exceptionally well over there.

 

[metalman]

Sure. And the Japanese are racist for drinking Coke and eating McDonalds.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

 

[metalman]

Avril Lavigne’s ‘Hello Kitty’ Video Is Rife with Cultural Appropriation

"using Japanese girls as props, making blank faces at the camera"

Oh the huminaty!! that has NEVER been done before ...

"But what does Hello Kitty really mean? Not since Gwyneth Paltrow's “conscious uncoupling” has one term been so intriguing, and so enigmatic. The World Wide Web is whispering that it's actually a reference to Avril Lavigne's own, well, “kitty.” "Hello Kitty" as a double entendre is actually surprisingly modest and sneaky."

so anything a women sings about is really a euphemism for vagina

 

[metalman]

Sure. And the Japanese are racist for drinking Coke and eating McDonalds.

And therefore Americans are racist for playing Pokemon ?? eating sushi?? anime ??

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

And therefore Americans are racist for playing Pokemon ?? eating sushi?? anime ??

Exactly! And don't forget tacos and bagels and sauerkraut and pita and humus and brie.

 

[metalman]

Exactly! And don't forget tacos and bagels and sauerkraut and pita and humus and brie.

I'm boycotting lutefish in protest of cultural appropriation

 

[metalman]

Exactly! And don't forget tacos and bagels and sauerkraut and pita and humus and brie.

Know Mas! Taco Bell reveals 'secret' ingredients in its mystery beef that's only 88 per cent cow

Is it still cultural appropriation when the ingredients are changed, and only the name remains?

Some days I want something other than Mexican food, so then I go to Taco Bell.

 

[Robert]

Some days I want something other than Mexican food, so then I go to Taco Bell.

 

[metalman]

 

[metalman]

The protest came after some Coffee House employees promoted an off-campus party at a local park Saturday that they dubbed “Cinco de Drinko,” a name university leaders said had strong connotations of racism.

 

[metalman]

MSNBC forced into apology tour after ‘Cinco de Mayo’ bit

 

[metalman]

A serious attempt to explain Avril Lavigne's 'Hello Kitty' music video

"So we’re left with the possibility that a faceless corporation is Avril Lavigne’s best metaphor for her own sexuality, or that faceless sexuality is Avril Lavigne’s best metaphor for her own corporate persona. “Hello Kitty” feels like staring into the vacuum.
"

ROFL
pop culture analyst is thoroughly confused when a women sings a song, NOT about their vagina!

What could the song possibly be about if its not a euphemism for her vagina ???

One of those music mysteries that may never be solved, right up there with the words to Louie Louie

 

[metalman]

Zack Beauchamp followup article:
The economics behind Avril Lavigne’s creepy “Hello Kitty” video

article summary:
globalization is responsible for the offensive cultural stereotypes in Lavigne’s new music video, because without globalization, people wouldn’t know enough about other countries to racially stereotype them.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

So much noise about nothing

 

[metalman]

So much noise about nothing

“Check Your Privilege”

 

[metalman]

“Check Your Privilege”