You got politics in my anime!
Nov. 17th, 2009 11:08 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
I've belonged to an anime website for the longest time - over six years now - and have always loved being there. Luckily, politics is rarely talked about amongst members, at least for the people I'm friends with, and the subject is never brought up in the site's chat function (except during the election, and even then it was mostly the international people just observing while everybody else was busy doing life things). And what's really nice is that there are a lot of people who feel just the same way I do about religion, politics, and the current administration. So I thought, oh good, we're safe.
Then that whole "Obama bowing to the emperor of Japan" thing came up. I kind of raised an eyebrow when I saw it in the news, but didn't think too much of it.
And then somebody decided to post it up in the news at this anime site. Ironically, it was a Canadian.
Since the news queue on the main page only shows the most recent article, that's what I see right now, complete with a picture of Obama's face. And I'm just going, "Really? Really? You HAD to post this up?" Because honestly, it irks me to no end to see things like this, complete with these little jabs to the people who are (justifiably, I think) offended. And the comments! Oh wow, open the floodgates for all the libtards to come and go "lol" at it all.
Aggggh. Keep your politics out of my anime kthnx.
Then that whole "Obama bowing to the emperor of Japan" thing came up. I kind of raised an eyebrow when I saw it in the news, but didn't think too much of it.
And then somebody decided to post it up in the news at this anime site. Ironically, it was a Canadian.
Since the news queue on the main page only shows the most recent article, that's what I see right now, complete with a picture of Obama's face. And I'm just going, "Really? Really? You HAD to post this up?" Because honestly, it irks me to no end to see things like this, complete with these little jabs to the people who are (justifiably, I think) offended. And the comments! Oh wow, open the floodgates for all the libtards to come and go "lol" at it all.
Aggggh. Keep your politics out of my anime kthnx.