| This is a re-upload from my (old) newsletter, The Rational Organ.
‘Lo, ev’ryone. If you are still here in 2024, then you know what you are getting into and have no right to complain if anything I say offends you.
Or targets you.
Yes.
You.
This early morning, I dealt with some shit. It brought to mind the problems I’ve seen with the “social justice movement” and other such things and, well, the general decline of rationality (and intelligence), of minding one’s business, and knowing when to stay the fuck away from something you deem “problematic” instead of complaining about it.
Where this started...
I was on Twitch, watching someone who I’ve rather enjoyed watching now and then. Haven’t watched enough of their streams to really get to know them, but eh. In fact, I believe they even follow me here on the Organ. Probably not for long.
So this, my fellow hooman, is dedicated to you.
It all started with a conversation about One Piece.
If you don’t know, I adore One Piece. I fully believe it is one of the greatest literary epics of the 21st Century and that its creator, Eiichiro Oda, is a goddamned genius. Hell, sometimes I wonder if he’s even human with the way he weaves stories so seamlessly and just pulls the rug from under you every single time.
So, naturally, I highly admire him and feel strongly about opinions of him.
I also feel strongly about stupidity and when someone is accused of horrendous shit.
I also feel even more strongly when someone is accused of horrendous shit without any legs to stand on and when that accusation is called an “opinion” instead of what it really is: An accusation.
You know, like Oda-sama was.
Or more specifically, like One Piece was.
One Piece has problems...
…but if I actually gave a damn, do you know what I would do?
I wouldn’t read it. I wouldn’t watch it. So, evidently, the problems in One
Piece don’t bother me. You know, me. The deviant. The pervert.
*Chef’s kiss* 😘
Clearly, this was just a conversation for neither of us,
with you being the sensitive snowflaked flower you are and me being the
uncaring piece of shit I am.
The Straw Hat pirates, the main cast of the anime and manga |
Okay.
I’m not going to get into the problems in One Piece because I
don’t care. It’s not real. It’s not harming anyone. If people are so easily
influenced by fiction, they need to stop fucking indulging in fiction.
One Piece is not racist, anti-Semitic, or
Islamophobic. I don’t fucking care what Oda-sama has said personally because,
unlike most people with functioning brain cells (or lack thereof), I can
separate the art from the artist.
And for fuck’s sake. Stop accusing people of horrendous shit
just because an element in their goddamned fictitious story is
against the social norms or bothers your ass.
If it bothers you, leave it the fuck alone.
If fiction is an escape for you, you are going to be so
fucking disappointed, human, for fiction often mirrors reality because
you can’t escape reality. Fiction has rape in it. Fiction has
racism in it. Fiction has underage sex and “sexualizes cHiLdReN” and actual
fictitious children, ermigurd. Da horror. 🙄
If it bothers you, read a kid’s book or make up your own
story and put all your effort and time into that.
OH WAIT!
I forgot.
You can’t even escape racism and pOlItIcS in kid’s books
either! Now, children are being told about LGBTQIA+ issues, identities, and so
forth and even teh critical race theory (why the fuck is it even called a
theory? I don’t know nor do I care).
So, sounds like you can’t escape into fiction very easily,
human.
Goddammit, I told myself I wasn’t going to use Substack like
a blog. Look at me anyway… 😒
Evidently, I am extremely pissed.
As someone who dabbles far too often and far too deeply into
the taboo, I know I’ll have to deal with this shit myself one day. And even
then, I will not stop countering said bullshit, even if I’m the only one doing
it.
To conclude...
One Piece has issues. But racism, anti-Semitism, and
Islamophobia aren’t three of them.
Anyone who says otherwise either doesn’t like Oda-sama, for
whatever fucking personal reason, doesn’t like One Piece, for whatever fucking
personal reason, or is projecting their own personal issues and gripes onto
something that has no business in their life.
The Fishmen are the One Piece equivalent of black people?
The dark-skinned people in One Piece are caricatures of
black people?
Some characters in One Piece have noses that
slightly resemble Jewish people’s?
Are you even listening to yourself and have
any idea how actually insulting you are being by saying these
things?
This person didn’t even correct their chat when they had
someone thinking the name “Al-Qaeda” was in One Piece. I did that. Because it’s
fucking false.
Seriously, this person had no legs to stand on as far as
proof of these accusations in particular. None. They—you—were so far
left field, you didn’t have legs to stand on. You were using
crutches. You were in a wheelchair. Fuck, you were in bed, lying down,
bedridden, and in a goddamned coma; you were not standing on
anything, let alone legs.
Stop accusing people of horrendous shit. That’s my actual
opinion.
And no, you are not problematic, you are a boldfaced idiot.
There’s a difference.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
Now go the fuck away, you disgust me.