This scumbag isn't trying to cancel himself, he's trying to cancel the publishing company who wouldn't meet his demands and the artist whose work offended him.
He was "work for hire", i.e. the company paid him to write a story for their book, he provided the text alone, they provided the rest of the art, editing, etc. It's no way 'his' book and now he's try to destroy their reputation and livelihood because they didn't listen to his concerns that having an Asian girl in a kimono was stereotyping. You'd rather have a Western kid wear the kimono, because we all know where that would lead? Or, are you (as the white authority of Japanese culture) just outlawing kimonos now?
Hopefully he gets blacklisted by the industry but in reality he knows doing this will get him ample contracts with woke publishers. He's trashing this book and this company because he knows it will pay off for him in the long run.
While you may be 100% technically correct, just think of the damage--the LITERAL violence and hurt--that would happen if a young Asian Canadian girl were to read this book and see a girl in a Kimono. Let me repeat that--a girl in a Kimono. I mean, those scars would last for life. Poor girl, I can't even.
And he just got himself declared "difficult to work with" by the publishing world. So now he never has to worry about creative disagreements with editors again because he will never deal with them again.
It's probably best to get ahead of it. Only a few people had gotten their hands on the book and he still got 2 complaints. It would have been a problem for him eventually. Now he can shift blame to the publisher.
The idea that any of it is even necessary is stupid though.
Western society is probably the most navel -gazing ever. I remember somewhere seeing a paper in social sciences that was basically asking "am I being racist as I am writing this paper?" and I think the answer was "yes".
Ahahaha so it's racist to depict an asian woman in traditional Japanese dress, but OK for everyone to be incorporated into the typical western dress? The underlying theme seems to be that they don't give a shit about cultural individuation, just conforming to the western universal inclusion.
This scumbag isn't trying to cancel himself, he's trying to cancel the publishing company who wouldn't meet his demands and the artist whose work offended him.
He was "work for hire", i.e. the company paid him to write a story for their book, he provided the text alone, they provided the rest of the art, editing, etc. It's no way 'his' book and now he's try to destroy their reputation and livelihood because they didn't listen to his concerns that having an Asian girl in a kimono was stereotyping. You'd rather have a Western kid wear the kimono, because we all know where that would lead? Or, are you (as the white authority of Japanese culture) just outlawing kimonos now?
Hopefully he gets blacklisted by the industry but in reality he knows doing this will get him ample contracts with woke publishers. He's trashing this book and this company because he knows it will pay off for him in the long run.
We need to minivan authors like this and replace them with Richard Scarys to teach children basic economics without them realizing it.
That was a good watch. Thought it was going to be about communism for a second when it opened up on "Everybody is a worker."
Commies have perverted the meaning of words. Everybody is a worker and a capitalist. They are instrinsic parts of being homo sapien.
A nice story.
I do have to say, though, that the pronunciation of the farmer's name was infurating. Its Farmer Alfalfa, not Farmer Alpha Alpha!
The narrator can't even blame it on being british. He is just an autist.
No wonder I enjoyed Busy Town as a kid.
I like this new turn of phrase, "to minivan" someone.
While you may be 100% technically correct, just think of the damage--the LITERAL violence and hurt--that would happen if a young Asian Canadian girl were to read this book and see a girl in a Kimono. Let me repeat that--a girl in a Kimono. I mean, those scars would last for life. Poor girl, I can't even.
He is cancelling himself?
What the hell is wrong with this soyboy?
Canadian.
They seem to hate Japan since MacArthur let them keep some of their culture, instead of ruining them like Germany.
Does this mean kimonos are now ?ased?
I don't see the racism...
There was none. SJWs are unhinged lunatics trapped in a cult where deadly sins are hidden under every leaf, and it's Autumn all year long.
Nothing to see here guys.
Is this white author accusing the brown female artist of racism? Pretty sure he'll end up cancelled for that.
And he just got himself declared "difficult to work with" by the publishing world. So now he never has to worry about creative disagreements with editors again because he will never deal with them again.
That's a bold marketing strategy, let's see how well it plays off.
See, don't use humans in stories.
I think this is why I'm enjoying No Man's Sky again so much. No. Humans. I'm not going to have to worry about it getting hit with the Woke Wand.
It's probably best to get ahead of it. Only a few people had gotten their hands on the book and he still got 2 complaints. It would have been a problem for him eventually. Now he can shift blame to the publisher.
The idea that any of it is even necessary is stupid though.
Western society is probably the most navel -gazing ever. I remember somewhere seeing a paper in social sciences that was basically asking "am I being racist as I am writing this paper?" and I think the answer was "yes".
Ahahaha so it's racist to depict an asian woman in traditional Japanese dress, but OK for everyone to be incorporated into the typical western dress? The underlying theme seems to be that they don't give a shit about cultural individuation, just conforming to the western universal inclusion.