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BBC Trending: Is this manga cartoon of a six-year-old Syrian girl racist?
"I want to live a safe and clean life, eat gourmet food, go out, wear pretty things, and live a luxurious life… all at the expense of someone else," reads the text on the illustration above. "I have an idea. I'll become a refugee."
The image and caption were posted by a right-wing Japanese artist last month. Now, more than 10,000 people have signed a Change.org petition in Japanese urging Facebook to take it down. The petition, posted by an account calling itself the "Don't Allow Racism Group", claims that several people have reported the illustration and demands that "Facebook must recognize an illustration insulting Syrian refugees as racism."
Although the Japan Times reported that Facebook did not take the picture down, saying it did not go against community guidelines, the artist herself removed the picture. But she remains defiant about her motivations for posting it in the first place. Toshiko Hasumi told BBC Trending that she believed the people signing the petition were left-wing activists. "I draw many political mangas [Japanese comics] which are not favourable to them," she said. "This is why they targeted me."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by juggs on Friday October 09 2015, @04:51AM
Many European nations have a long history of embracing refugees and immigrants. A cursory look at that "great" Britain's history for even the last few hundred years to a millennia will show a constant movement by people - either as invaders or as people running away from being invaded.
The difficulty is not the invasion per se, it is the the time it takes for the normalisation of society that must occur to ingest the invaders or refugees and maintain the society. i.e. everyone is welcome, just don't all come at once and don't shit in your own front yard when you get here.
At the moment there seems to be a fire hose of refugees from the Mid-East flocking to certain parts of Europe..... OK they are running away from theological oppression with mad beheadings..... I understand that.... I would run too. The question that needs to be asked is - who caused the power vacuum in that region and destabilised it continually for decades and thus caused this fire hose to open?
Bit harsh to refuse to accept the result of ones own doing no?