• chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    He’s not white, but he is the equivalent. Also a son of a cop, and Japan still also has very racist and colorist views. In comparison it works.

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      13 hours ago

      Okay I’m too lazy to Google it right now so feel free to completely ignore this, but would you happen to have a tldr on Japan’s ethnic groups? Or a link to a good and hopefully concise source?

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      2 days ago

      i think the creator of this meme (not me if that wasn’t obvious) made a mistake in that it was actually L who was coded to be white:

      When asked about L’s ethnicity, creator of the series Tsugumi Ohba responded, “I think of him as a quarter Japanese, a quarter English, a quarter Russian, a quarter French or Italian, like that.” fandom

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        19 hours ago

        “White Privilege” is going to be relative to where you are. They could have just said Privileged.