Anime in Politics (or… ‘Those Odd Politicians’)
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awesome
it’s funny how otherwise socially liberal Democrats become quite conservative when it comes to commercial pop art (music, movies, video games, etc.)
I LOL’d
I’m more interested to know why he made this comment in the first place. What anime set him off? Or does he have a daughter who won’t stop running around shrieking random Japanese words and getting hot and bothered over her latest “bishie?” Obviously I’m irritated and offended, not so much because of what he said (it’s a free country) but because there doesn’t seem to be any context, and all we’re left with is an ignorant blowhard in a place of power judging anime. With the sting of the Chris Handley case still being felt, anime fandom doesn’t need moronic comments like this skewing people’s view of the art.
I vote Democrat too, by the way.
seanny: You mean like the PMRC and Hillary and Joe bitching about Hot Coffee? That’s partly why I like Barry, since he’s not stuck up about comics and games like other pols of his generation.
Yay, more misrepresentation of animated media by popular figures. Not too long ago, writer and staunch defender of Catholic dogma Brian Kelly wrote that anime was “cultish” and “very dangerous, to the soul and the mind.” Yay.
Aaron: Stupidest effing git I remember was the a-hole who decided to put a Pikachu doll on a bonfire.