@1 Just because they don't draw them with slits for eyes, big buck teeth, thick glasses and a bowl cut doesn't mean they are drawing them Caucasian.

Who the F are those 4 hot chix in that tweet?

There is a collection somewhere online (maybe Kotaku?) of a bunch of tweets from Japanese people in regards to the casting choice in "Ghost in the Shell."

The gist of it tends to be that most Japanese people and fans of the source material don't care about who got cast, and they mostly just find it interesting that the only people who really seem to care are white Americans.

A lot of them are basically saying that since (in their opinion) there are not that many good Japanese actresses who can speak English well enough for the role, it makes sense that a white person with considerably more big box office draw potential got cast.

FFS these kinds of movies are made to make money. There is no other motive. Scarlett Johannson is a huge box office draw. Your beef is with capitalism not racism.

Re the Ghost in the Shell casting, many Japanese and Asians (from anecdotal conversations I've had) are generally biased toward light skin, so they tend to be pretty cool with the casting of a white actress. The important thing to them at the least is that a dark skinned actress wasn't casted.

hey, South Sudanese: cut it the fuck out. the Ethiopian army can and will invade and make things a whole lot worse. if that's even possible.

Sure, let's point the fickle slaughter finger at the CD while not naming restaurants. Great idea, Stranger! Are any of those restaurants also advertisers?

Little known detail: That TraveLodge was where the US Military 'Delta Force' unit set up their operations HQ during the WTO event in '99, so that their team could wander the streets in plainclothes with lapel cameras and have the video feed flow back to the servers they'd set up there, for whatever processing/searching/?? they were doing.

I don't know how legal a USMil unit operating domestically actually is, but it seemed interesting that they had such an op going.

@12 you are on some 5th eye shit man