LogFAQs > #977350560

I'm just going to say this because this is a broader argument that usually causes me to get pretty heated, and I'm not doing that here since I know you're genuine and not the type of person I usually see trying to argue this (14 year old antis).

A character saying something in a piece of media doesn't mean the author agrees, even if the character in question is meant to sympathetic. They're a character who, if the writer is remotely competant, is going to be thoughts and values of their own.

Saying that the character saying those things are in anyway equivilant means the author agrees with that statement is a bit of a hack take.

It's understandable how someone could reach that conclusion though since there are a lot of hack writers, which is why in a case like this I'm not really gonna jump on anyone who gets blindsided by it.

Especially when we live in a world where over a 1 day period the entire Kpop Fandom makes a joint statement like "anyone who consumes any Japanese media is a pedophile", like happened, uh, yesterday.