by Gheorghe Zamfir on Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:33 am
Its racism, pure and simple, a few close minded bourgeois are afraid of inter-dimensional relationships. For no reason whatsoever, what's a cartoon ever done to them? The myths that have allowed us to relegate cartoon characters to second class citizens have long been debunked, though the segregation continues, most of the developed world has at least evolved enough to allow these characters to make a living, but not China, openly proclaiming their ignorance by fostering this right wing real people agenda.
As if animated characters didn't have it hard enough, its not like they can live out here in the real world with us anyways, they pay taxes, they work all day, but do we provide them with medical benefits, or even simple citizenship rights? Of course not, we answer with this segregation, we live in our fancy 3-D houses, but they are forced to slum in the second dimension. And now this! This fascist government taking away what few scraps they have, doing whatever they can to push these characters down. So now they're not only banned from our 3D world, but the Chinese are punishing anyone who even works with them! Strengthening this unjust separation pretty much ends any real hopes these under-privilaged few might have had at substantial progress.
Makes me sick to think of a government like this, going out of its way to punish the few open minded civil rights activists for doing little more than reaching out, for not being too scared of society, to work with animated characters, to be able to say to the world that everyone deserves equal treatment. Everytime I think this kind of thinking is past us a law like this comes up, honestly, does anyone think we'd see laws like this if cartoons weren't colored? People need to stop trying to bring back that black and white world of the 50s! I'd like to think that bigotry is dead, I'd like to think that when I'm able to trick a girl into having my kid, that as a single parent she could raise that child in a free and open society, I'd like to think that at least, but those goddamn yellow fucking chinks won't let me!
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Gheorghe Zamfir on Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.