this isn't to disagree or oppose what you said, but just in the interest of not misrepresenting things and making sure we all have our facts straight, the ml in this is supposed to be mixed-heritage Native/indigenous, not Black, and probably wasn't enslaved. nevermind that he looks very ethnically and culturally vague... lol. it doesn't detract from the oddity and likely (even unintended!) racism of the creator choosing to focus on this kind of interracial couple in this setting and time period and having the ml call himself a slave like that, even sarcastically, since European settlers did initially try enslaving the indigenous populations of the Americas in earlier times.
The character isn't even black and we also lack the context that he was enslaved.
It is use a specific time and place as a narrative backdrop not "romanticizing it"
if we follow your logic, no historical fiction set during conflict or tragedy should ever exist. stick to sanitized fluff instead of demanding global fiction be censured for everyone else.
Imagine believing North America has a monopoly on the history of human slavery and inhumane acts
the "I'm your humble slave, master" line was emphasized in the promotion for the series through its synopsis and in the chapter itself by having those words close the chapter. given the prevalence of romanticized master-slave relationships in other bl works, people had reasons to look at this series with concern and wariness because it was invoking real life history and departing from the fig leaf/plausible deniability of incoherent and vague fantasy settings nominally disconnected from real life history (which is still worth scrutiny and criticism, but the intensity is different in comparison). not to mention, the joseon era master-slave/servant stuff has the advantage of being familiar history for their creators.
north america (really, the americas together) does get a claim on this specific iteration of slavery because chattel slavery marked a significant departure from existing forms of slavery up until that point, and codified a system of racial hierarchy that is still in place today. people from other countries with their own historical examples of slavery keep erroneously assuming that those instances of slavery worked in the same way and could be dealt with in the same way. americans are touchy about slavery and civil war history because even domestic fictional works about those topics can fumble hard, to say nothing of dubiously researched foreign works using them as a backdrop for erotic romance.
if anything, I'd say that this was shaping up to be a sanitized portrayal of history by how it clumsily sidesteps the presence and relevance of Black people to the scenario and tries to ensure that the mc appears as a "good" white man in the setting, even though everything from his status to his presence on the ranch "in the wasteland" (itself a colonial concept) to the potential conflicts of his relationship with the half Native/indigenous love interest cannot be divorced from the racial hierarchy of the time, which was and is maintained by the subjugation of Black people.if the author didn't want to include Black people, which they're ultimately not obligated to do, they would have been better off choosing another topic and setting to write about, because like it or not, when writing about American history, you'll have to grapple with the racial dynamics of this country one way or another, to say nothing of the civil war era (even postwar) where the crux of the conflict was "what are we going to do with these Blacks? (are they even people?)". to then make the only Black people in the story be faceless mobs seemingly only with the intention of making the white MC look good and ethical, just rubs salt in that wound.
I can believe that the premise and execution of song of the wasteland didn't originate from malice, but ignorance doesn't get a free pass either. and that's why people talked about it even from just the first chapter, because none of that originated in a vacuum, and none of that was free from the biases, assumptions, and narratives surrounding race and history that prioritizes the interests of white people at the expense of other groups. that's why the post-civil war setting is so noteworthy and egregious, because the failures of Reconstruction, lack of reparations, and subsequent efforts to subjugate and exploit former slaves are foundational to present-day problems, same with land theft and everything leading to reservations on the Native/indigenous side. and that's not even getting into how race and racism were codified into the social and political fabric of the country in ways that would definitely impact any potential interracial coupling of any sort at the time.
i personally wasn't calling for the series to be dropped, and was willing to see where it would go even though i had serious misgivings and wariness about the creator's knowledge and capacity to handle all of that as someone presumably without any connection to any of that history. i could give it a chance, but the risks were sky-high. that's why i'm glad the creator either took the criticisms to heart, or more likely simply recognized that a controversial story like this wouldn't necessarily generate the profits the creator and the publisher wanted, and dropped the story.
people can and should be free to create whatever they want, but that doesn't make their creations free from criticism or pushback from other people, especially when the profit motive is involved. why should anyone be able to make stories based on painful real life history and make money off of it without any feedback or response?
the fact that the series had an English release indicates that English speakers, many of them from north america, were among the potential customers of the series. there was also negative feedback and coverage from Korean sources as well, so you can't pin things entirely on americans anyways.
the creator and the publisher sought to make money off this series, and the feedback from potential customers that indicated that there would be problems monetizing a series like this, so they decided to cut their losses. if this story was something the creator felt passionate about the world seeing, they could release it for free. otherwise, they currently have an opportunity to rework it/do something new, and make a better release.
Holding the whole world and creators by the throat with boycotts every time a story collides with North American history of unresolved traumas it sounds a lot more like censorship and ethnocentrism than criticism. But hey, feel free to keep preaching from your moral high ground, even if you're still judging and classifying everyone solely by skin color over there.
A superpower’s cultural sensitivities shouldn't dictate what the rest of the world gets to read
And honestly, if I were you, I wouldn't boast about your economic dominance over the rest of us, it gives off heavy neocolonial vibes.
I'm on board with the anti-american hegemony sentiment up until it becomes dismissive and hostile to action against racism (particularly against Black people). which is weird because it appears that you think American economic dominance (and the cultural influence that follows) over the rest of the world is bad, and "judging and classifying everyone solely by skin color", a.k.a. racism, is bad.
which is good! I think so too!
but you seem more interested in being upset at people who were upset about racism or who didn't want a dubiously researched historical fiction piece (because it's a more approachable target than american hegemony?). what's up with that?
jaxx was not untouched and entirely free of american cultural influence before a bunch of people said they weren't feeling their new series, otherwise why write about cowboys, the American southwest after the civil war, and have the mc be white? through various media, the american brand of racism has already been spread globally, so being upset with the reaction to song of the wasteland is not the rejection of american hegemony or "ethnocentrism" you're trying to portray your responses as. because you're refusing to engage with how things like this feed into and reinforce the american brand of racism and cultural conflicts even outside of the US in the end.
I didn't point out the economic factors at play to boast about american economic power, but to point out that people should be upset with the market logic/incentives that govern and limit commercial art and give americans more leverage on what gets produced and distributed as a consequence.
let's all get more anti-capitalist! strike at the root of american hegemony if you really mean it!
yeah, I live in a country that classifies and judges people based on the color of their skin. how does that detract from or invalidate anything I said about racism?
talking about the way that the US conceptualizes race and the dynamics of that does not mean that I think it's right and good and fine and universal across cultures. I'm talking about it because I object to it and want to change it! but in order to find and create solutions, you need to be able to accurately identify and analyze the problem.
and speaking of accurately identifying and analyzing problems, this might be of interest to you if you really want to talk about censorship:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317574825_Ambiguities_and_Imperatives_of_Market_Censorship_The_Brief_History_of_a_Critical_Concept/fulltext/69a042e364ca8a38209204d0/Ambiguities-and-Imperatives-of-Market-Censorship-The-Brief-History-of-a-Critical-Concept.pdf?
You have this mental block that makes you mistake criticism or rejection of your dogma for racism. You're so obsessed with your own racial lens that if someone points out the absurdity of it, you immediately label them as complicit.
You just can't wrap your head around basic concepts: if a story doesn't fit neatly into your political rulebook of historical guilt, it stops being art to you and instantly turns into a personal attack. You people simply can't process the idea that a foreign author might use a setting for pure aesthetic drama without a hidden geopolitical agenda. Even worse, you deny the very people you claim to defend any agency, refusing to accept that different groups or individuals can hold other perceptions without viewing them as inherently harmful.
I think gringos have the biggest god complex, and are quite naive at the same time.
Because they don't see other realities, they're trapped in the idea that the rest of the world shares their mentality. By the way, they're incredibly impressionable, let me tell you.
The rest of the world (especially those of us who grew up in countries in the South with completely different economic, social, and historical realities) has an innate ability to separate fantasy from reality. We grew up watching Hollywood movies and foreign entertainment that has no weight or influence on our real world. We don't need it to reflect us or identify with us because we know who we are beyond a momentary fantasy. We can perfectly distinguish our context from yours.
And you're ruining that for the people of color who live there. You're depriving them of their own agency.
As for your neat little call to be anti-capitalist.. come on, spare me the fake radicalism. For someone who seemingly despises the system, you happily weaponize it whenever it suits you. You drip with hypocrisy and drool over control. All that illusion of flawless morality while completely ignoring everyone else's reality.
Besides, I'm fed up with the dramatic speeches about "accurately identifying and analyzing problems" We are talking about a South Korean fictional romance webtoon, not rewriting global policy!
Pretending that launching a digital witch hunt to cancel a comic over a single chapter is an act of deep systemic analysis is peak pseudointellectual comedy lol Don't act as if you were drafting human rights treaties, when all you did was throw a social media tantrum to have someone's work and art censored. It’s a total lack of proportion.
Also don't try to twist the point about your obsession with skin color: your entire crowd spends all day categorizing, labeling, and dividing people based on race on everything, yet you act completely blind to it, missing the sheer absurdity of it all.
the world doesn't revolve around your specific brand of paranoia.
Oh, I almost forgot about this underlying idea of "you can criticize and condemn the United States, but only if you kneel before our ideological priorities and accept that our historical trauma is the center of the universe" is quite disgusting and in bad taste. Even more so than all of you having to clutch your pearls over the "icky" feeling of just the idea of reading Song of the Westerlands.
it's projection central with you, huh? (￣∇￣")
making assumptions, putting words in my mouth so you have a flimsier strawman to vent your ire at, dressing up simple self-interest as a noble cause, you've got it all.
getting more angry that racism is pointed out and criticized than you are angry about the presence of racism at all reveals your unflattering priorities, which is why you brought up "moral high ground" in a previous reply and mention an "illusion of flawless morality" in this one. i never said anything about morality, so why is that relevant for you? by accusing me of hypocrisy on that point, it looks like you're trying to rationalize your own inconsistent position on the subject of racism being bad and meriting opposition - "racism is bad, but it doesn't matter in fiction, and people shouldn't say anything about it, so i can continue enjoying racist media". and normally you would be able to continue your enjoyment, but this time a creator responded to feedback, so you're furious.
even before the creator decided not to continue with song of the wasteland, i said that i was willing to see where the story would go. beyond simply agreeing with the criticisms and thinking the premise was dodgy, i haven't been involved with whatever fan reaction that prompted the creator/publisher's response. so, truth be told, i've only been making guesses based on hearsay and what little i directly saw about what pushed them to cancel the series instead of ignoring the criticisms, which would be the usual reaction to backlash like this. i'm not sad or upset it got canceled, but it wasn't something i was actively pursuing, either. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
presumably, it was the combination of negative social media buzz and possibly (again, this is hearsay, idk for sure) people directly contacting the publisher with their criticisms and concerns along with (maybe) the threat of boycotts that made the creator and publisher responsive to the backlash. even if it was all oversensitive americans leading the charge and throwing their economic weight around, anyone else with an interest in the series could also show their interest and support for it, so how was their agency taken away or overridden? ultimately, the existence and continuation of the series at all was the creator's decision, and getting as upset as you have been with the existence of the negative feedback for this series speaks more to your own self-interest and desire for control than concern for the creator, who evidently doesn't want to come off as racist "by american standards", or the apparent plight of non-americans looking to read manhwa. not to mention, all this wouldn't have happened if not for the premise of the story to begin with. act like it's unreasonable all you want, but it's entirely within the realm of expectation for the people living in a country portrayed in a story to have thoughts and opinions about that story, and to express them. where's the anti-censorship in denying people that?
invoking the idea of unfounded persecution by calling what happened with this series a "witch hunt" totally ignores all of the creator's choices and their own agency in creating the story as commercial product, from the idea itself to releasing it in english. it also implies that the reaction was an unprovoked, aggressive imposition into the creator's life and as if it's unreasonable for people with an interest or stake in what was presented to have opinions and criticisms of it. why pretend that negative reaction is never a risk taken by artists releasing their work in public? all art expresses ideas, and those ideas are subject to reaction and even criticism once exposed to the perception of others.
people moderate and change their words and actions in response to other people all the time - the stuff you say and do with your friends is not the same as the stuff you say and do at work or with strangers. is it censorship that people change what they say or decide not to say or do some things with certain people? adapting to the market you want to sell in is a whole thing in business, anyways. that's what the creator did!
even if "it's different" or, doubtfully, "it doesn't exist" in your country, racism is a problem in the US and so will be relevant to any media involving it, let alone a direct depiction of american history like song of the wasteland, and will be discussed whether you acknowledge it or not.
Just to clarify, when I use (you) in English I'm referring to your entire crowd (since the language doesn't have a distinct "ustedes"), so this isn't a personal attack on you (for the most part).
Neither is it about being mad that racism is pointed out.
The real problem is your group's arrogant attitude of believing you get to dictate what's right or wrong.
My first reaction upon seeing a faceless character in the background won't be, "It's a person of color!" since that's common in comics. Or I can also understand a character using the phrase "your humble slave" to represent and personify that characteristic of being haughty and playful, regardless of who they are, from the beginning with the protagonist, without seeing it as an endorsement of racism, of course, because I have literary comprehension.
If your core issue boils down to throwing a fit because a story doesn't fit your strict racial quotas or because you don't like seeing white people as heroes... well, tough luck. Go find moral support and representation elsewhere. Here, we enjoy classic tropes and clichés and respect creative freedom. Whether it makes you uncomfortable or not.
I'm calling out the sheer absurdity of crying "racism" at every single standard fictional dynamic just to feed your group's savior complex.
your entire stance reeks of a self-righteous crusade to police what others create and consume. Enjoying a story with classic tropes or historical settings doesn't make someone pro-racism, just means the rest of us have actual media literacy, unlike a crowd that demands total ideological cleansing in fiction.
You damn Pavlovian dogs, you're only programmed to react to trigger words instead of actually reasoning with context. That’s why your crowd don't even understand basic humor or fiction anymore, you just sit there waiting to wag your tails the second someone rings the bell with "racism this" or "bad white man that". You've traded critical thinking for a conditioned reflex.
Nobody is denying your right to have an opinion. The problem is your arrogant belief that your localized North American standards and hyper-sensitivities get to police what the rest of the world creates and consumes.
There is a difference between genuine artistic critique and an organized digital lynch mob using financial threats to bully creators into submission.
Pretending that intimidating a publisher until they drop a series is just "normal business adaptation" is the most cynical way of seeing the issue.
Pretending that an artist folding to protect themselves from that PR nightmare means their agency wasn't compromised is so bs!
Being extorted into conforming to the ideology and then call it "voluntary adapting" is wildly dishonest. And then you have the nerve to claim that "it was ultimately the creator's decision" to cancel the series, as if forcing someone’s hand under all that BS is a free choice.
People aren't just "adapting" to the market, they are forced to contort themselves into the boxes assigned by the controllers and exploiters of capitalism, because nowadays creators are held hostage by digital reputation when their livelihood depends on it.
we are defending genuine creative freedom. We don't care about dictating what a writer can or cannot put in their story. Trying to spin the rejection of your digital mob as a "desire for control", come on, be for real. We don't want to control creators, we want them to write freely without a self-righteous crowd punishing them for not bending the knee to foreign ideological standards.
"none of this would’ve happened if not for the premise" YIKES, you're justifying censorship against anything that doesn't fit your dogma.
And now I can see that you're starting to slowly move of your initial position. Now that your hypocrisy and actual influence are thrown right back in your face, everyone suddenly transforms into an innocent, helpless bystander. You don't get to flex your economic leverage and celebrate a creator's capitulation one minute, only to cry "we were just expressing opinions!" the moment someone calls out your authoritarian mob tactics. Own the outcome you fought for instead of scrubbing your hands clean the second it looks ugly.
And as for that patronizing little note about racism, we know that exists everywhere, but in the USA it is predominantly used as a political weapon and a means of mass control. Just because your country has turned cultural trauma into a performative industry doesn't mean the rest of the world has to adopt your neurotic, parochial lens just to consume fiction or history.
(Sorry for the essay, by the way—there was just way too much BS to unpack.)
If after all of this, you still can't step back and even slightly question the absolute rigidity of your own reasoning... honestly, I think you're a lost cause.
hold on, i need to laugh and cry for a moment at the irony of you using "organized digital lynch mob" to refer to the reaction to this story with no acknowledgement and seemingly without a shred of awareness of how lynching and lynch mobs terrorized Black people after the civil war. pretty on-brand for someone who thinks that showing some tact towards the history of a foreign place is all about imposing views and enforcing guilt or whatever.
racism is indeed a tool and a weapon, but you want to act like it's a problem for the people it affects to be aware of it, point it out to other people, and discuss it, like ignoring it will make it go away.
Wait... they hear the word "lynching" and then who starts wagging their tails and drooling...? lol Relax a little.
In many of our countries, vigilante justice and literally lynchings are a harsh social reality that plays out on the streets with a messed-up system, we know perfectly well what that word means, and it doesn't give us a mental breakdown just to see it used as a common internet metaphor.
You still can't figure out that we understand racism=bad, and of course you can talk about it.
The problem is you just invent and twist things to manufacture fictitious "racism" out of nowhere. Get over yourselves.
i remain unswayed by what you say because there is very little persuasive power in your arguments. i'm rigid in my beliefs and understanding of the events and concepts here because of what i have learned, studied, and observed, and nothing you are saying is presenting a good challenge to any of that.
just because you're not picking up on any problems on the depiction of race and the character dynamics in the story, does not mean that they don't exist. it simply means that you're not familiar with those trends or dynamics, especially if it's not relevant to your own cultural context. same goes for your defense of "classic tropes". classic for who? what's the humor based on? literacy isn't just understanding what is happening on a page, or knowing that a fictional story isn't happening irl, but also identifying meaning, messages and making interpretations. this includes things like making connections between the content of the story itself and the historical and cultural context that a story was written in.
you can call me a reactive, pavlovian dog all you want (notice how you keep resorting to insults?) but people are capable of recognizing patterns with enough exposure. repetition is key to learning, and culture/values/ideas are no different. if you can understand how media reflects and influences beauty standards and what people perceive as attractive, you can understand how it pushes and shapes ideas regardless of a person's stated acceptance or rejection of them. racism is a power system and ideology that includes material violence and psychological components, which expresses itself in culture and interpersonal behaviors. it's not popular with people committed to ignoring racism, but it's a common topic of study and media criticism to investigate how ideologies of racial domination are propagated by media and influence how people treat people they're not familiar with. if you have no knowledge of things like "birth of a nation" and "the turner diaries" and their effect on american culture/history, you're lacking the knowledge needed to meaningfully participate in any discussion about how americans engage with race in general and in media.
people react based on their cultural backgrounds and knowledge, and people familiar with the racial dynamics in the US came away thinking song of the wasteland was going to be weird at best with them. even though i'm open to contentious topics like post-civil war history being explored in fiction, it requires a lot of research and effort that even americans struggle with, to say nothing of a korean artist with deadlines and a language barrier.
I'm aware that putting less effort into background characters is a common time/effort saving choice in comics. I'm saying that doing that only for the Black characters in that way when there is a choice that reflects poorly on the creator's intentions and priorities in telling this story, considering the setting and time period that was chosen. it's very suspicious to have a story where the civil war and its aftermath are significant to the narrative and characters, and then only feature Black people as background props to assure modern readers that the protagonist isn't a bad person by their standards. maybe there would have been actual Black characters done well in future chapters, but that initial presentation did not inspire confidence in the creator since they were not even aware of the implications of what they drew in chapter one.
it's not just one or two things in isolation, it's multiple choices adding up that leads me to conclude that there was some unconscious, subtle racism present in the formulation of this series, which wasn't a good sign that the creator would be able to do well in telling the story sensitively as it went on. ignorance by itself isn't a crime, but failing or choosing to learn and be informed is a problem, especially when it comes to the topics this series would have dealt with. you can say that's unreasonable or shouldn't be expected, but i think that's silly and rooted in ignorance of the matters at hand.
this series and the rhetoric used by its defenders are great examples of how ignorance of the subtle aspects and expressions of racism/white supremacy and how it maintains itself will kneecap any positive intentions. it's not enough to simply avoid depicting Black people and other people of color as recipients of obvious racially-motivated violence. everything from setting, character backgrounds, designs, and narrative framing must be considered and researched if the creator doesn't already have intimate knowledge of what they're depicting. I can believe that this creator didn't have bad intentions and the story didn't set out to romanticize a master-slave dynamic. but chapter one revealed multiple weak spots and oversights in its treatment of racial and power dynamics in the setting that raised doubts about how things would go in the future.
song of the wasteland was going to be sold for revenue and hopefully turn a profit, like any other commercial art product. jaxx had the freedom to create a story within those bounds and came up with something that it turns out that people don't want to pay money for. we can talk about how that's an unfair dynamic, but it's silly to act like the negative reaction came from nowhere out of nothing and for spite.
i also remain unconvinced that people not buying what someone is selling, even if it's a piece of art, is an infringement on the seller's creative freedom in making that art. commercial art is always creatively limited by the market to begin with! the existence of more of that art is always contingent on how lucrative it is for the producer! publishers cancel or cut short series all the time if they underperform, so this is simply another casualty of that. i keep saying, the creator could have ignored all the criticism and kept on with it if they really wanted to like most other webtoon artists when presented with criticisms like this.
and it's also ridiculous to frame rejection of the criticism people made and the negative reaction to the story as pushing back on things being centered on the US and revolving around a superpower, when it is part of the topic of discussion: racism in the US, exported to other countries and integrating with their preexisting biases and prejudices, and then being sold back to the US. people affected by racism in the US tend to have things to say about racism no matter the source, and if it turns out that they're a significant part of the market for the product being sold, then it appears that things turn out like this.
trying to shut down discussions of racism using the guise of opposition to US-centrism is disingenuous, especially when somehow non-american countries still end up consuming and integrating american racism and racist rhetoric into their cultures in all kinds of ways, even if "race doesn't work like the US here".
Oh, I just wish there was an English translation for the word TERGIVERSAR that could truly do it justice... because it perfectly encapsulates and describes what you're trying to do to the narrative.
You have to twist things, dig around, look with a magnifying glass, treat it like an ancient hieroglyph, and practically get a master's degree in racism just so you can maybe find some hidden '"racism" in there.
Also why wouldn't I insult you, you stupid idiot? I don't need that fake, manufactured moral superiority.
Besides, let me tell you that cancalling you out as a Pavlovian dog was an epiphany I had while trying to understand your behavior, and it fit you perfectly... which you confirmed with your very first response lol you guys get your brains, reason, and comprehension completely clouded the second your triggers get pulled.
And if North American families are foaming at the mouth upon hearing that a BL manga that isn't strictly politically correct is going to be released, I'd say.. they should find another struggle my friends.
Your "subtle racism" is literally like the invisible dragon in the garage! whenever reality or logic proves you wrong, you just say it's because people are '"to ignorant to see it" and before you say a word, yes, we all know what real racism is. But it's a completely different thing to invent it and dig it up out of a fictional work where it was never there.
Under your logic, for an artist to just draw or depict people of color, they have to completely reinvent ideal ways of existence for them just to pass your self-righteous standards. What would we call that? Tokenism? Filling quotas? look at you demanding an ideological purity.
You say "people don't want to pay money for it" but by people you really just mean a loud mob mostly from North America making all the noise.
Sure, series get canceled all the time, but do you honestly have many options left when a pack of psychotic digital lynchers comes after you? Can you make a single neuronal connection?
And no, the rest of the world doesn't need to absorb and assimilate American racial baggage, every country has its own distinct social system. Why do you guys think the entire planet is as obsessed with your specific cultural issues as you are?
You keep repeating the exact same thing over and over, trying maybe this time to make it finally make sense, but you literally just sound like an AI.
Anyway, keep enjoying your self-righteous, privilege soaked bubble while the rest of the world keeps moving on.
beautiful take and honestly i agree
This is an author that wants an international audience (otherwise it would have been a Korean exclusive) and they created a story that was repulsive to one of their biggest markets, the US. They have no one to blame but themself for this situation. You'd have to be pretty entitled to think an audience can't give you bad reviews. Or that your publisher can't choose products that haven't bombed with one chapter.
Signed, someone who's not a yankee
If you're completely fine with sucking corporate boots and handing your ass over to foreign superpowers, honestly, go right ahead.
So your logic is that if a creator wants to sell their stuff outside of their home country, they automatically have to follow all the pre-established creative rules of whoever controls the market? That wanting to make money and grow your audience means you think you're entitled?
And keep up that tired lie that an digital lynching is just people leaving a "bad review" you absolute potato. All this pitchfork-wielding panic because a bunch of fragile weirdos couldn't handle a fictional story.
While you’ve got that neocolonialist dick so far down your throat that you're actually swallowing it with a smile, eyes watering and calling it "free market logic."
Cheering for global censorship while pretending you are some free-thinking rebel.
really? you dropped that bootlicking manifesto and then blocked me so you couldn't get clapped back.
Alright hide behind a block button because you don't have the brains or the balls to defend your own spineless logic. No wonder you love total creative control!
I just want to say that you're very intelligent and I enjoyed reading your educational comments
I blocked you cause I think you're annoying and don't believe you're interested in opposing oppinions.
This comic had only one purpose and it failed. Do you get so upset when an ad gets backlash? I gave no opinion on whether this was a good or bad system, I only reminded you what you're dealing with.
You're making a lot of assumptions regarding my politics and you're hilariously wrong. The fact you can't even consider we might share values when we reach different conclusions tells me you're incredibly immature.
"The Korean economy might be subject to US interests. Capitalism commodities and censors art" and other conclusions only you have discovered, you're an outstanding genius.
I think this comic sucks. I think the creator is an idiot for believing she knows more than she does about history. I think she did a bad job. I can't be assed to pretend "woke mobs" got it cancelled instead of money. And I hate the anglosphere and its entire anglo monoculture.
Genuinely can’t understand how people are defending this manhwa by saying it’s “fiction”?? It’s still a harmful topic and sooo icky to read. Who tf wants to read ts…some ppl are saying that they’re so mad it got “cancelled”, like there’s THOUSANDS of other BL to read and you wanna read abt ACTUAL slave porn, what an insensitive take. And idgaf if “you’re black and don’t care” doesn’t take away from the fact this is insensitive asf and still takes away from the history of abuse African Americans have faced for generations. If you can’t understand that, take a fucking Black American history class cause the shit they faced is beyond inhumane. I cannot believe ppl have tried to romanticize a time period such as this, and created a love story between a “white savior” and a previously enslaved black person, what a fucked up power dynamic. Genuinely mad at how uneducated people are yet how much bullshit they can spew.