03-24-2021, 10:37 PM | #61 |
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Can you really get onto TMNT for "japanese stereotypes" when the most offensive japanese stereotypes was from the manga turtles done by japanese people?
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03-24-2021, 10:45 PM | #62 |
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If the Turtles were raised by a Japanese sensei why do they all speak in New York lingo? Shouldn't they all have Japanese accents? Nobody ever seemed to think of this.
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03-24-2021, 10:48 PM | #63 |
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They don't even speak in "New York lingo." They talk like Bill and Ted who are from f*cking San Dimas. These idiots don't know WHAT they are.
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03-24-2021, 11:49 PM | #64 |
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Even back in the day I remember Elbert or someone reviewing one of the TMNT VHS tapes mentioning that 'they speak with California lingo which seems out of place in New York'.
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03-25-2021, 03:21 AM | #66 |
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I'm a bit on R. Kelly's side. He's a weird dude into some really, really weird sh**... but when you listen to these women speak out against him, they knew damn well what they were getting into. Every one of them.
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03-25-2021, 07:10 AM | #68 |
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I get the feeling we might get a transgender Karai in a future incarnation. For some reason Karai strikes me as the type of character they would do that with. She has to be "head" of the Foot Clan after all, it's best to be both genders when you're a leader of a ninja clan typically controlled by men.
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03-25-2021, 07:39 AM | #69 |
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Ofc the Turtles don't have a Japanese accent like Splinter/Yoshi do. They were born and raised in USA. They're Americans. They've never been to Japan. The language they grew up listening to on TV and the radio was English.
As for them not having New York accents, well not every TV show and movie is set in New York. The Turtles didn't seem to venture outside much before meeting April. Meaning they didn't have any significant contact with humans before meeting her. So they must have learned how to talk from watching TV. And even a lot of shows and movies set in NYC don't have New York actors in them. One of the few common complains I've read people make about Seinfeld online was how "it's in NYC but nearly everyone speaks with a Californian accent". In the 2k3 series, Raphael had more of a stereotypical New York accent. His brothers didn't, however. |
03-25-2021, 07:45 AM | #70 |
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In mirage all turtles have NY accents, those are the versions that count not the kid versions of cartoons.
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03-25-2021, 07:58 AM | #71 |
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There is always the whole, "They got their accents from watching TV" thing. Not because of people in NY (they don't interact with them anyway) or CA.
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03-25-2021, 08:00 AM | #72 |
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How do the Turtles find a working TV in the sewer anyway? Is there even any place down there to plug it in?
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03-25-2021, 08:14 AM | #73 |
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It's not hard to imagine "supply runs" at night in alleys and dumpsters and all. They'd find a TV eventually. And I'm sure they could patch into some maintenance power line underground... something has to power those lights for sewer workers.
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03-25-2021, 03:07 PM | #75 |
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That's not really the way it works. It'd be some white people getting offended on behalf of Japanese people, not Japanese people themselves.
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03-25-2021, 04:14 PM | #76 | |
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EDIT- I forgot, it wouldn't be the case if the character are or aren't Japanese, the big 'crime' would be that a bunch of white people are writing stories about Japanese people and martial arts.
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03-26-2021, 11:03 AM | #78 |
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As a white man I am offended that those who are offended aren't really offended but are pretending to be offended for those of us who think they are offended. Meanwhile it is the ones who are really offended but don't seem like they're offended because white people are offended upon their behalf and think they are offended meanwhile it belittles the ones who really are offended because other people think they can be offended to when they are not the ones who are offended.
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03-26-2021, 12:54 PM | #79 |
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Poor excuse. Too often those who are the target of something and actually do want it to stop are ignored. Too easy just to pretend it's only white people and don't matter since that then excuses any need to change or make an effort to stop being a jerk. The real voices whose opinion matter tend to be ignored if they don't like it; a few cherry picked opinions that don't care tend to be pointed at as proof that it fine, but the rest ignored.
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03-26-2021, 01:15 PM | #80 |
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Words aren't bullets. They shouldn't hurt so bad.
- Signed, "A Kid Who Got Teased, Picked On, Bullied, and Occasionally Beaten Up Almost Constantly From Kindergarten Through The End Of 8th Grade, But Refused To Succumb To 'Victim' Mentality And In Turn Became A Better, Stronger Person" P.S.: If anyone tries to say it's "not the same for white people", I'd argue that being beaten up by a half-dozen kids and thrown in a ditch because your parents got arrested for drugs, being called "trash" and taunted for "living in a cardboard box" because the bank foreclosed on your house and you had to move to a sh*tbox apartment, and told that "nobody's ever going to love you, you're gross" because you're short, skinny, and have rather effeminate facial features, all hurts JUST as much no matter what your skin color is. I'd actually argue that those things are much, much worse than calling an Indian kid "Apu" or making Mulan jokes at Asian kids. Seriously. I have an open-hand for anyone who even tries to argue that either white people are "immune" from bullying, or that race makes a damn bit of difference. Yeah, people could and should be nicer. But they're not, and they're never going to be. Therefore, people NEED to Toughen Up. We don't live in "I Wish" Land. Every single person is taught "Treat others the way YOU want to be treated" by the age of 5. MOST people in turn just chuck that right out the window. It's never gonna change. Expecting or even hoping that it will is wasted energy. Just Be The Change You Want To See and let that be good enough. Nobody's changing the world. Ever.
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