In a stunning display of ideological whiplash, a self-identified right-wing poster declared anime fans—specifically those into “loli”—unwelcome in conservative spaces, parroting the same arguments typically used by their supposed political opposites. Because nothing screams “winning the culture war” like copying the other side’s talking points and alienating a huge chunk of your own base.
On May 10, Twitter user @ff3k1984 made their grand contribution to the discourse by declaring:
It’s the latest example of the right’s (a portion of it, anyway) increasingly confused stance on culture. Once the self-proclaimed defenders of free expression, personal liberty, and resistance to censorship, some conservative voices are now eagerly taking a page from the very left-wing moral panic playbook they used to mock (much like their new perspective on “war”, if the Palestine debacle is anything to go by). The message is clear: If your fictional preferences make us uncomfortable, you’re out.
The idea that anime involving stylized or youthful characters is automatically equivalent to actual criminal behavior has been a long-running point of contention. But that nuance tends to vanish in emotionally charged tirades that conflate fiction with reality and morality with optics.
Hopefully he didn’t watch a violent movie growing up—otherwise, by this logic, we’d have to assume he’s just one bad day away from committing a murder spree. After all, if cartoons can brainwash people into degeneracy, then surely action films should have turned him into John Wick by now.
Ironically, while the left has long accused anime fans of degeneracy, the right is now jumping on that same bandwagon, proving once again that nothing unites a polarized internet quite like misunderstanding Japanese cartoons. The attack on “loli” content isn’t new—but seeing it come from both sides is a reminder that outrage culture has no political allegiance, only targets of convenience.
And while self-proclaimed moral guardians on the right try to gatekeep their movement by declaring war on otaku, they might want to look around and realize that many of the people they’re calling degenerates are the same ones who stood against censorship, authoritarianism, and cancel culture in the first place.
It should also be noted that most detractors equating loli with real world crime are often exposed as criminals themselves.
Some of the tweets in response to theirs:
Going too far in either direction tips the scales of your sanity. Too far left and you become a screaming kool-aid haired trans WOKE retarded communist who has a temper tantrum over anyone or anything that disagrees with you. Go too far right and you become an overbearing hypocritical authoritative “purist” who has a temper tantrum over anything or anyone who disagrees with you.
Take a chill pill and realize that not everyone will like what you like or hate what you hate. Learn to live with that and you’ll find you life to be so much easier.
Nah man, that’s your own self-inflicted cognitive dissonance spoiling your fun right now. The right wingers were never on your side just because they share your hatred of others to begin with. They’ve always despised and feared porn and foreign culture for even more retarded reasons than the lefties, just like they censor everything else they don’t like. You put your bets on the wrong team, simple as it gets.
Neither side is truly pro-freedom of expression, but at least the right can be reasoned with. The left have become totally ideologically captured, which has pushed many people to the opposition. The extreme Christian puritan right are a minority fringe group.
Always has been like that. It’s just the the extreme left is the most loud and obnoxious, but it’s not like the extreme right is any better. Both extremes ends in the same place.
To be fair you actually do see “not all right wingers like that” responding to him calling him a dumbass acting like a leftard.
Meanwhile when leftards do/say something retarded they screech out “NOT ALL LEFTIES ARE LIKE THAT, I’M NOT LIKE THAT!” and have not a single soul they can point to as proof. Similar to how muslims and their defenders say “not all” and then they’re conveniently silent when their allies are behaving badly.
This is of course ignoring that the whole “TRAD TRAD TRAD” nonsense is often former leftoids, so they still have the same retarded beliefs in other areas besides the few they dropped to become “TRAD”, like “Okay, I’m done fucking 100000000000 random guys a day, time to settle down :)” or “Okay, doing drugs all the time is bad and I’ll be dead by 40, let’s stop :)”.
Why coomer weeaboos of all people try so hard to be right-leaning?
Tradcons are retards. They will scream for free speech after handling all of culture to the Left and then immediately attack people the moment they see something I don’t like. Have to agree with most of the responses above – people like him are the dead weight in the culture war.