Know Your Enemy.

[Orcling]

tl:dr

Shut up Claeyt.

[Jalpha]

Holy *****. If you are society then I'm glad to be outside of it.

Go derail a different thread Claeyt.

[darnokpl]

http://artifactsjournal.missouri.edu/2012/03/wwii-propaganda-the-influence-of-racism/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/headovmetal/sets/72157602730833017#

Wow looks like USA freedom and equality is total bs, there were as many racists as in the Germany during WW2.

[Procne]

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To my taste they weren't even racist whenever they were created. Just a propaganda against enemy. If you don't like it then you should start censoring tribe first

[Claeyt]

For so many reasons this thread is not okay.

Why not?

Because these are the images that they are taken from and the caricatures are just as offensive with a Native-American head on it as it is with a distorted racist Japanese head on it. These images are racist because they demonize an entire race by distorting and making them seem uglier to create an image of the enemy race as evil. They are racist because Asians view them as offensive. Anybody who uses them to make a joke is acting like a racist towards the Japanese and prolonging the racism that was created when posters like this were used in ignorance to drive America towards violence towards the Japanese. Like I said, they can be forgiven during the ignorance of the 30's and 40's but their use can't be forgiven now.

Here's an example.

Try hanging one of these pictures on your front door at home or in your cubicle at work, or your locker at school. You'd be shunned by your neighbors, reported at school and probably fired from your job because these images are outside of decent society now, and if you think that they're okay then you're an idiot and a racist. If you're not able to hang these pictures on your front door, locker at school or cubicle at work then why do you think it's okay to hang them here on the internet in a public setting?

I'll tell you why, because here you're using a generally hidden identity. The images are just as offensive to Asians as if you hung them publicly, but here you don't have the real world repercussions as much as if you hung them in public. This breaks jorbs decency rule.

For any Asians out there, I am using these images to fight racism and try and show people symbols of American racism in the past and how it's carried over to the age of the internet. I'm using them as a teaching tool to prove to the ignorant that these images are racist and created to cater to the base ignorance of American society during WW II.

[Jalpha]

Seems to me like you are the racist here Claeyt...

I didn't see any resemblance to asians until you started posting pictures with the flags in them.

[Claeyt]

Wow looks like USA freedom and equality is total bs, there were as many racists as in the Germany during WW2.

In many, many ways past racism in America has been as bad as Nazi Germany. Slavery has only been gone 150 years. We're celebrating the anniversary of the beginning of the legislative process for the 13th Amendment to our Constitution on April 8th, next month. That's only 5 generations that we've lived in this country since 15% of our population was held as slaves. I'll bet 90% of the Americans on this forum didn't even know that we were celebrating that event next month.

In many ways racism in America has changed dramatically. These days it's hidden in meaning and by the Republican party messaging system. They talk about ending welfare and use terms like 'thug' and 'urban' instead of N bombs and such. It's much more important to fight this misinformation coming out of FOX news and other right wing sources than it is to fight radical racist groups like the KKK and other groups like that. As late as the 80's former Klan members like David Duke were still accepted in society and into the Republican party. Now days all of that is gone and we have a black president who's able to get millions more people to vote for him than a rich white guy.

[Tonkyhonk]

thought we all knew this was coming when jorb and loftar gave jwhitehorn the headdress for what they were doing, but didnt think some people were retarded enough to actually start this and support this.

the problem is not "racism" itself here as claeyt put it, but it is the crooked humor and intention of trying to make use of those racist propaganda posters to its original effect and i do not find it funny but just distasteful and immature.
i would not be offended when it is using the whole head of a salem char like first picture in op, then it is very obvious it is ingame thing - if you play this game at least once.
i would not be offended by that "eat children" poster, either 1) if not only headdress but the whole head was switched to a salem char head as i said above, or 2) if that poster was to laugh out the mushi's stupid propaganda from the tribe side, saying how stupid their propaganda is.
encouraging to enjoy those retarded propaganda for its original purpose in the available context is insanely distasteful in my eyes, and those raw pictures are out of questions.

id call this an epic fail of irony.
i see that you want to wait till you cannot handle it any more, jorb. lets see where you are planning to draw your line in the near future.

p.s.
stfu, claeyt.

[RobertoKarlos]

I'll bet 90% of the Americans on this forum didn't even know that we were celebrating that event next month.

Well done calling almost the whole Usa salemplayers ignorant, you scumbag

Now days all of that is gone and we have a black president who's able to get millions of black people to vote for him than a rich white guy.

They are call afroamericans....

[Darwoth]

HEY LOOK THEY DREW WHITE PEOPLE IN A CARTOONY MANNER IN THAT PICTURE, I AM SO GOD DAMN OFFENDED NOW!!