It's true! And like, how would you know? A lot of the more disturbing images expressing this trope have been destroyed, and with good reason. I think most people who know about such things would be content to let this particular visual motif fade into obscurity.
I guess the problem lies in the recent re-emergence of the trope in Asia, where (primarily) Islamic peoples are now depicted as having green skin in propaganda posters in India and China. This is especially disturbing in India, as Narendra Modi's political faction openly brags about its direct lineage from the Schutzstaffel, even tossing around the same "double lightning bolt" insignia as part of their messaging. Memes proudly depicting Modi as Hitler have become increasingly common as the idea of a Hindu ethnostate continues to gain popular support. Fun times.
The ongoing genocide in China is much more hush-hush, but green-skin propaganda images still occasionally manage to leak out into the wider internet. Haaretz isn't shy about reporting this, nor is Al Jazeera. It's all very fucked up.
And you might be thinking, But what does this have to do with Japan, and the answer is that the Japanese alt-right gobbles up this garbage like ice cream. There is a large and growing Japanese QAnon group called Yamato Q that organizes popular in-person regional meetings where people can get together to enjoy light mountain climbing, weekend retreats to hot spring hotels, and discussions of how a shadowy cabal of "global capitalists" are putting nanomachines in Covid vaccines in order to dilute the purity of Japanese DNA. In their shared fantasy, wealthy "desert people" conspire to burn oil and kill the planet, and only the heroic Japanese grassroots QAnon environmentalists can stand in their way... but only if they resist vaccines, which as we all know are made from the blood of innocent children.
Sorry for ranting. It's just... Straight-up medieval antisemitism? In 2023? Seriously? You'd think Nintendo of America would have better sense than to let this fly.
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Date: 2023-05-22 09:50 pm (UTC)I guess the problem lies in the recent re-emergence of the trope in Asia, where (primarily) Islamic peoples are now depicted as having green skin in propaganda posters in India and China. This is especially disturbing in India, as Narendra Modi's political faction openly brags about its direct lineage from the Schutzstaffel, even tossing around the same "double lightning bolt" insignia as part of their messaging. Memes proudly depicting Modi as Hitler have become increasingly common as the idea of a Hindu ethnostate continues to gain popular support. Fun times.
The ongoing genocide in China is much more hush-hush, but green-skin propaganda images still occasionally manage to leak out into the wider internet. Haaretz isn't shy about reporting this, nor is Al Jazeera. It's all very fucked up.
And you might be thinking, But what does this have to do with Japan, and the answer is that the Japanese alt-right gobbles up this garbage like ice cream. There is a large and growing Japanese QAnon group called Yamato Q that organizes popular in-person regional meetings where people can get together to enjoy light mountain climbing, weekend retreats to hot spring hotels, and discussions of how a shadowy cabal of "global capitalists" are putting nanomachines in Covid vaccines in order to dilute the purity of Japanese DNA. In their shared fantasy, wealthy "desert people" conspire to burn oil and kill the planet, and only the heroic Japanese grassroots QAnon environmentalists can stand in their way... but only if they resist vaccines, which as we all know are made from the blood of innocent children.
Sorry for ranting. It's just... Straight-up medieval antisemitism? In 2023? Seriously? You'd think Nintendo of America would have better sense than to let this fly.