This only just confirms to me that Kiwi Farms suffers from what I like to call 'South Park is Our Own' Syndrome.
So what does South Park and Japanese pop culture media have in common? The Progressives and the Tradcons have the biggest midwit takes when it comes to South Park due to the failure of both to grasp the fact that Trey Parker and Matt Stone are self-proclaimed libertarians that are not willing to pull any punches with either the Left or the Right.
When you hear Progressives talk about South Park, they complained how Trey Parker and Matt Stone suddenly "Turned to the Right" because in the most recent seasons they were poking fun at the Left for the woke shit that was promoted by left-wingers at the time after many years of Trey Parker and Matt Stone dunking on Republicans and making fun of the Religious Right during the Bush years. The Progressives thought that South Park was their show just because South Park made fun on religious fundies and the hypocritical Republicans at the time. The Progressives have forgotten (or choose to forget) what Matt Stone said about their political beliefs and I quote "I hate conservatives but I really fucking hate liberals." Just because Trey and Matt are willing to make fun of the Right doesn't mean they won't give the Left their turn in being made fun of. So the Progressives turned against Trey and Matt when Trey and Matt were never on their side to begin with.
It's the same with the Tradcons. When Trey Parker and Matt Stone started to make fun of the Left (Safe Spaces, Go Strong Woman Go, etc), the Tradcons thought that the creators of South Park fully support the Right and South Park was going to support Trad values. That was not the case and this was demonstrated when Trey and Matt used Mr. Garrison to make fun of the dumb stuff Trump did and they pulled no punches in making fun of Trump during his first term in public office. The Tradcons at the time went apeshit and whined about how South Park got "Woke" now, Again, the Tradcons seemed to forgotten what Matt Stone said a long time ago, "I hate conservatives but I really fucking hate liberals." Trey and Matt are willing to make fun of the Left but that doesn't mean they suddenly won't hold the Right accountable whenever they do something stupid. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have held on to their principles that there are no sacred cows to them and everyone gets their turn.
So what does that have to do with anime and manga? Simple, both Progressives and Tradcons hold on to the delusional belief that anime and manga specifically caters to their subjective values. Progressives think that anime and manga are progressive forms of media just because Sailor Moon and Revolutionary Girl Utena exists (those two things have heavy LGBT themes) and then they go full on Anita Sarkessian in trying to do some historical revisionism by claiming that fan service has to be abolished because of 'muh-Male Gaze' and that fan service has no place for "progressive" media like anime and manga. The Tradcons that are into anime do the same thing by claiming that anime is "Trad" because of stuff like Dragon Ball and Code Geass and then they go full on Jack Thompson by claiming that fan service has no place in "Trad" content like anime and manga. Do you see why both the Progressives and the Tradcons are completely fucking retarded when it comes to how they discuss Japanese entertainment in general?
If I were to put Japanese pop culture entertainment on any side of the political compass, I'd put it in the side of Libertarianism because anime and manga are the closest we'll ever get to Libertarian media being mainstream. Why do the Japanese tend to write better LGBT characters and PoC characters (which can be seen as progressive) while often mixing those themes with themes like good triumphing over evil or the power of friendship (which can be seen as Tradcon)? Because Japanese media in general tends to follow Ayn Rand's view on Objectivism better than Western media these days. Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are beloved LGBT characters for a reason and Goku is a beloved character for a reason because they were written in the most objective manner possible, Sailor Moon isn't preaching to you that you're a bad person for not supporting gay rights and Dragon Ball isn't preaching to you by calling you weak for not being some Andrew Tate asshole. You can even make the argument about why anime and manga is so successful these days is because the Japanese entertainment industry in general follows Milton Friedman's view on the free market where you're better off letting the free market decide rather than having the state or some other autocratic force decide for people (and so far the free market prefers fan service in anime and manga which includes the trope of loli and shota characters being sexualized in said Japanese pop culture media).
I think the main reason why Progressives and Tradcons don't like certain aspects of anime and manga has less to do with any personal moralfagging reasons and has more to do with wanting to subvert something they have little to no control over. Why do Progressives hate gamers so much? Because they can't stand not controlling something they have no control over and why they have been pushing for DEI/ESG for the past few years (which is now backfiring on the Progressives because no one is buying the Woke games). Why do Tradcons hate anime fan service? Because they also cannot stand something they have no control over either (and any attempt by the Tradcons to try to subvert anime and manga will backfire on them for the same reasons the attempts by Progressives to subvert gaming has backfired on them).
In conclusion, Progressives, Tradcons, and the self-proclaimed anime "fans" on Kiwi Farms don't like the anime fandom or some aspects of Japanese media in of itself because the Japanese tend to follow more Libertarian values when it comes to creating their works and the Progressives, Tradcons, and Kiwi Farms hates that they have no control over this,
Progressives, Tradcons, and Kiwi Farms hates the fact that anime and manga creators and publishers follow what these two individuals preach:
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Take your meds bro also funny they mentioned Weeb Wars was started by a pedophile voice actor who they still suck cock over his failed career.
