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Japan is exempt from 'woke nonsense' simply because their schools and teachers do not teach their students the same subjects in the same way as in your country.
People like Araki Toshiyuki grew up in a Japanese school environment from the 1970s to 1980s, well past the 1960s Zenkyoutou, which was when the Japanese left lost and all of the students who participated found themselves unable to land good jobs in companies (so they started getting jobs editing manga magazines), but because Zenkyoto lost badly and were seen as losers even among former participants, their memes were considered lame, so the former left-wing manga magazine editors generally didn't insert their visions of a world-wide revolution into their magazines, and instead sought escape in smaller worlds. While Japanese like to form groups, which is how doujinshi formed (同人誌) where multiple people come together to form a Circle (サークル), they do not form organisations like the ones in western countries.
Doujinshi artists mingled together and people of completely opposing viewpoints simply had to get along, which is different from what's happening in western countries thanks to your school systems where there's an intense red vs blue, and situations where people on team red or team blue will eat themselves because they failed some purity test.
Hence why Araki can have a character who is not gender-conforming, and have a brother who refers to them as their brother without being demonised. The same goes for Oda Eiichirou who'll have okama characters, who are both good and bad guys, and people who are terrified of them, and none of these different viewpoints are demonised in his manga. It's alright to be okama, and it's alright to think okama are weird. Just like it's alright for Dragona and Jodio to be how they are. If this is woke, then it's the kind of Japanese brand of woke westerners, including the users here throwing around words like transphobic, should emulate. People need to cooperate and get along.
People like Araki Toshiyuki grew up in a Japanese school environment from the 1970s to 1980s, well past the 1960s Zenkyoutou, which was when the Japanese left lost and all of the students who participated found themselves unable to land good jobs in companies (so they started getting jobs editing manga magazines), but because Zenkyoto lost badly and were seen as losers even among former participants, their memes were considered lame, so the former left-wing manga magazine editors generally didn't insert their visions of a world-wide revolution into their magazines, and instead sought escape in smaller worlds. While Japanese like to form groups, which is how doujinshi formed (同人誌) where multiple people come together to form a Circle (サークル), they do not form organisations like the ones in western countries.
Doujinshi artists mingled together and people of completely opposing viewpoints simply had to get along, which is different from what's happening in western countries thanks to your school systems where there's an intense red vs blue, and situations where people on team red or team blue will eat themselves because they failed some purity test.
Hence why Araki can have a character who is not gender-conforming, and have a brother who refers to them as their brother without being demonised. The same goes for Oda Eiichirou who'll have okama characters, who are both good and bad guys, and people who are terrified of them, and none of these different viewpoints are demonised in his manga. It's alright to be okama, and it's alright to think okama are weird. Just like it's alright for Dragona and Jodio to be how they are. If this is woke, then it's the kind of Japanese brand of woke westerners, including the users here throwing around words like transphobic, should emulate. People need to cooperate and get along.
