• AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Also, just take a look at American WW2 propaganda - how did they depict the Germans, how did they depict the Japanese? The amount of anti-asian racism is completely off the charts in the latter case, whereas the faces of the nazis in these portrayals just look like those of average homely white dudes (i'm saying this as a German myself, they just look like normal blokes i see here on the streets). They're not flattering, it's propaganda, after all, but there's none of the gross exaggeration of facial features, none of the racist stereotyping you see in the caricatures of buck-toothed, fanged, constantly grinning Hirohito that are so common in that era.