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If you look at Pokemon.com's episode videos, you'll notice that the episode with Lorelei is not there. I can see Nintendo banning episodes like "Holiday Hi-Jynx", but banning that other one because of Jynx is just stupid because she only appears for maybe 15-20 seconds in the entire ep.
Jynx was banned for a good reason. Jynx can be seen as a stereotype of black people because of its black skin and humanlike features. Therefore Jynx was racist and deserved to be banned.
So, just because a too sensitive society perceives something as derogatory, that makes it so? That's about as valid a statement as "Resident Evil 5 was racist". Common perception of something means absolutely nothing; everyone once thought the Earth was flat, after all.
| Aaerni wrote: |
| Jynx was banned for a good reason. Jynx can be seen as a stereotype of black people because of its black skin and humanlike features. Therefore Jynx was racist and deserved to be banned. |
Not how it works. First of all "black skin and humanlike features" - now, I don't want to be accused of being racist, or pandering to stereotypes, but I think that that describes all black people. Jynx could be percieved as racist. Doesn't mean it automatically is.
The race thing wasn't even an issue in Japan, it never has been. They didn't think about it, especially as they didn't expect Pokémon to make it big outside Japan. When Pokémon first came to America they decided to write Brock out because they were worried Americans would find him to be racist, but they saw no problem with Jynx - probably because it's not even human. And nowadays there are people who don't even consider Brock to be black, they just think he's tanned. People called Barlow from Ranger 2 the first black Pokémon character, then said the same of Iris & Lenora.
However, I can understand why Jynx's appearance could be considered racist, but the whole thing is laughable. Surprised people aren't calling Throh a racist stereotype of native Americans. But then nobody would call up, say, Peter Pan...
Incidentally, here in England, Jynx isn't banned, at all. Holiday Hi-Jynx and all other episodes featuring Jynx still air here.
I'm black and i never found anything racist about jynx or any otherPokemonor character on this show. this is a cartoon its for kids and toentertainanyone else who will watch and people need to just enjoy tv, enjoy life, and stop complainingbecauseif it continues then soon we might lose our favorite things because of whining over meaning less complaining.
| syrusfan wrote: |
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Porygon is a more complicated matter, the controversy around it isn't about opinions of what is right or wrong to be shown to kids but rather about how the episode is debut in sent 800 Japanese kids to the hospital with seizures which is alegitimatehealth risk. The matters from then on gets complicated (like it wasn't Porygon that caused the strobe lights but rather Pikachu zapping some missiles), but for this point all that is needed to know is the controversy with Porygon is very different from the controversy with Jynx.
