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If you ever need to type 'removed', save a few keystrokes and just write a slur instead (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by temptest@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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I hope this protip doesnt get hunter2 from the comm

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[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

I wonder if that's the origin of the very racist, but comedic phrasing "moonrunes" for various written Asian languages.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

That term initially was a reference to the anime Turn A Gundam, where Earth and the moon have developed distinct populations after a cataclysmic war. The moon race is highly advanced, Earth has gone back to steam engines and subsistence farming. The moon language is presented as highly complex and completely incomprehensible to Earth people. I remember being on 4chan's /a/ when they first started using the term.

[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

That's actually really surprising. So is it.... not racist?

[-] axont@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean context is everything, isn't it? I don't think moonrunes is necessarily racist. It can be used as a phrase like "it's all Greek to me." But it can be used in racist ways depending on how it's said, yeah. Moonrunes often refers to any language that doesn't use Latin script, so anything from Thai to ancient Egyptian is moonrunes/moonspeak

A much more racist thing that weebs can say might be calling Japanese people "Elevens." It's a reference to the anime Code Geass, where Japan has long since been conquered and colonized by the British Empire. Japan is renamed Area 11, and characters in the show use the derogatory term Eleven to refer to native Japanese people. It's presented as racist in the context of the show, so I always felt weird when anime forums would use it unironically.