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Originally Posted by Riocaz
But you consider yourself exempt... Thanks for clarifing your position.
And I will point out again that the artist who was born in 1927 and first drew the character in 1962. And that as a Frenchman would he have neccessarily have been influenced by an American cultural caricature as anything more than as a model to base his character on. No more than the Golliwogg of Florence Kate Upton's storys were. Or Svart Pete of dutch folklore.
But then North Americans often assume their culture must be dominant over the entire planet. Look at the "controversy" over the pokemon "jynx" which was assumed to represent "Blackface" but was actually parodying the darkly tanned with blond hair and heavy make-up of the Ganguro fashion trend popular at the time in Japan.
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Your condescension is childish, and your comments seem to have little relevance to the specific issue that was being discussed.
- Ahi