Thank Jebus we have white person Amber Cortes expressing her outrage at another white person's behavior, on behalf of Asians everywhere.

I'm not really working up much outrage here.

@1. ;-)

I seriously don't care. "Cultural appropriation" occurs when a company strips important context out of a traditional cultural practice in order to make it more commercially appealing to an outside group of people while simultaneously presenting it as authentic.

While it sucks that some people thought "Akira Yoshida" was an "authentic" Japanese person. I'm at a loss to tell you what traditional practice was appropriated or what important context was stripped out. You thought the author was Japanese--even though it's been pointed out that's the fakest ever Japanese name--but the author is dead and always has been.

I don't have a reason to be outraged. Or to care about this at all.

Did you know that Japanese actors and performers would frequently give themselves American and English names to develop a brand and that most Japanese people actually don't give a flying fuck about appropriation (since much of their popular culture is happily appropriated)?

@5

Whomp whomp. You're lame.

@4: And did you know nobody here cares about your white feelings? Save your trivia for Jeopardy, genius.

#7: You are a self parody.

@1 give her a break, her undergraduate education only cost her family $320,000 (in today's dollars).

So is the problem that his fake identity was Japanese or that is was fake? Who gives a shit? Lets work big to small. Work on the pussy grabbing, the homeless, the drugs and the traffic. After we solve that we can beat up some nerds.

But race IS fluid! Aren't many of us mashups of various ancestries and origins? And even without a genetic linkage, don't many of us find beauty and inspiration in cultures not our own? And haven't writers used pen names for centuries, sometimes to obscure identity characteristics that were disadvantageous at the time?

"[Cebulski] could write well for an American audience—something Marvel had struggled with

Terrible just terrible they hired this guy and then promoted him, the horror.

Virtue signaling about “cultural appropriation” has got to be the cringiest thing in this earth.

Huh. Wolveriene. Lt. Worf. Hattori Hanzo. All that phony-sounding bastardized ninja-samurai-honor code bullshit was actual bullshit made up by a pasty fanboy?

Whatever. It's a free country. Just, you know, keep in mind when you begin your haughty lecture about how I need to start taking your comics seriously. As art. As literature. This right here, this total bullshit, is what I'm going to be thinking when you deliver that lecture.

Oh, I was hoping it was SeanBaby that had broken the story. I am disappointed it wasn't.

Dear Amber and Sloggers,

Thanks for saving us! Never forget that *you* are the real superheroes!

Sincerely,

The Asians

Weebs gonna weeb.

Besides, look at that guy. Are you really going to blame him for trying to be someone else? He just looks like the ran away from a booth babe because he was sweating too much.