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19 Jun 09

Justice is blind unless you are latino

  • If this makes you uncomfortable then it is good.  It is far less pain than that experienced by either Cantu or Ramirez.   We are not post racial, we have not reached the imaginary mountaintop. White supremacy is real and it has infected all of the agents of socialization.  The only people that are in denial of this have internalized the meme of Whiteness as good to serve their own ends.
15 Jun 09

'Otaku hunting' is back

  • It's been a few years, but otaku hunting (or "otaku gari" as it's known in Japanese) is back in the headlines. This time, a pair of men attacked the victims in the Nihonbashi section of Osaka, an area similar to Tokyo's Akihabara.
  • The reason? Same as it ever was: "Otaku are weak, they give over the money and they don't talk back."

“Rape Games” and Free Speech

  • I personally am pleased with the EOCS’ decision. It is an important rejection of a deeply offensive form of expression.


    I would not have been pleased if it had been the Japanese government that had decided to ban such material. There is a world of difference between government censorship and the rejection of certain forms of expression as unacceptable by private groups.

German government slaps restrictions on Finder

  • Several of my German correspondents have contacted me to let me know that vol. 1 of Ayano Yamane’s Finder has been “indexed” in Germany. That means that it has been deemed harmful to minors and not only is its distribution restricted, it cannot be “advertised”—which means that bloggers in Germany can’t even mention it, which is why they passed the news along to me. Here’s the gist of the law:
15 May 09

Down the Slippery Slope - The Crime of Viewing Manga

  • Given all the qualifying facts in the Whorley case, one might ask, why should anyone care? Setting aside questions of fundamental justice for the moment, the answer is: because cartoons and drawings aren't child pornography and should not be treated as such under the law.
04 Apr 09

Graphic artists condemn plans to ban erotic comics - UK Politics, UK - The Independent

  • This week Parliament will discuss a new Bill which will make it a criminal
    offence to possess cartoons depicting certain forms of child abuse. If the
    Coroners and Justice Bill remains unaltered it will make it illegal to own
    any picture of children participating in sexual activities, or present
    whilst sexual activity took place.



    The Ministry of Justice claims that the Bill is needed to clamp down on the
    growing quantity of hardcore paedophilic cartoon porn available on the
    internet, particularly from Japan. But critics of the legislation say the
    current definitions are so sweeping that it risks stifling mainstream
    artistic expression as well as turning thousands of law abiding comic book
    fans into potential sex offenders.

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