hi, Asian person here, reporting on the Scott Smajor Announcement
THIS WAS NOT AN APOLOGY THIS WAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT DO NOT CALL IT AN APOLOGY
half of the “im sorry”s were followed by “if i xyz”. if i offended you. if you felt hurt. thats not an apology.
also. he said “orientalism” twice and racism ZERO TIMES. thats not an apology, that’s crowd control.
lets examine some of the shit that he DID say, actually.
"read more on the line of Asian culture and uhm.. Orientalism. and I didnt realize because i didnt do much research.”
thats ur fault. why are u saying like an excuse. its not.
“because this isnt a way to teach you greek mythology.”
im sorry?? your saying you dont have to research greek culture because you arent teaching it?? mate, your whole smp is ancinet greek based, tf do you mean?
“it bleeds into a lot of Japanese patterns which i know because ive been to Japan.”
what the fuck are u on about.
“ i didnt get to know that other people were being pointed greek.”
what does this have to do with the racism
“ ive had a very difficult year”
the racism. what about taht.
“i didnt know it was bad rep because it was the first thing that appeared when it showed up. “
not my problem . the racism is still Your Fault
“im sorry if it affected you. it was never something i would try and do. “
yeah i dont believe you. prove it.
“i thought everyone else was going fantasy.”
THATS STILL WRONG. EVEN IF EVERYONE ELSE HAD FANTASY DESIGNS YOU WERE STILL ORIENTALIST AND RACIST
“ apologizes if anyone was offended it was not my intention. “
“ive seen people saying my character being orientalist and my character going to be very flirty, those were dots i was not connecting.”
ur so right!!! (sarcastic) people are just imagining things. (sarcastic.) theres no racism, its just silly Asians getting all worried over nothing (sarcastic.)
Fandom needs to STOP IGNORING PEOPLE OF COLOR. Stop saying that caring about this is a 'white' thing to do, that is ERASURE.
I'm glad the design is being changed, but let's be careful in calling this a victory.