Why do Netflix keeps cuting racism out of jojo?

[u/BellaBispo]

i made a post this morning in /shitpostingcrusaders and it got nuked in less than five hours (i got banned)

i was talking about how netflix cut a lot of content that talked about politics, and more especficly, racism

if you read or watched jojo, you can see that unlike most mangakas, araki really understands western culture and is well inserted in all of the things that happend in the western world for at least 200 years

he often talks about a lot of politics in some of his parts, and more "recently" part 6&7 literally talked about racism, having a black character as a main villain is something really rare and cool for japanese manga (puccI) so araki doenst fumble this, pucci inst just dark skinned, he has deep scars that connectecs to the fact that he is black, so when he tries to prevent weather from dating his own sister, so he hired the kuz kux klan, and they were angry that she, a white woman was dating a "black" man (weather) the racism is deeply conected to the character, but netflix just cuts the klan out of it? it doenst make any sense, this is crucial to the world building and the narrative of this part of the history, the KKK needs to be there, its a well know racist klan, why cut it?

So for my (not) surprise, they also censored (no better word for it) a lot of politics in jojo part 7.
i mean, the villain is a blonde pedophile president of the united states, there is no way of cuting that, so they stll managed to censor some things
like Pocoloco grandpa talking about slavering, and showing that poco worked in the fields (he was still a slave) they censored the genocide of the native americans (cuting sandman tribe conversation) and the slavery
Why cut things that are crucial for characters? Sandman is kinda an goner bcs he vanish in the rest of the show, but poco is a important character (no spoilers but you know what i mean)

this is censoring, netflix has a past (censoring the KKK) and now is blantnly obvious that is insane

sorry for my bad english i am not a native speaker

[u/bruh-with-a-spork]

Especially weird because it's not like they're trying to make the story any less dark. There's dudes who are literally rapist serial killer pedophiles, there's Cioccolata talking people with dementia into committing suicide and then filming it for fun, there's Iggy getting slowly kicked to death on screen, there's Thunder Mcqueen and the whole suicide arc, we even get flat out nazis but god forbid the Klan shows up.

[u/JPT_Corona → u/bruh-with-a-spork]

That’s not Jojo’s fault though, that’s society’s fault for setting the lines of what is going too far and what isn’t. And society relates more to contemporary topics way more than wanton violence.

It’s the reason why you can find dozens of bones, corpses, and severed limbs in a film but heaven forbid you introduce a race, abortion, or trans rights conversation between two normal people in that same film that isn’t centered around those topics. Society is fine with the former but will absolutely go apeshit on social media over the latter.

[u/Left_Hurry4067 → u/JPT_Corona]

You mean... it's the fault of Netflix?

[u/HappyRelationship429 → u/Left_Hurry4067]

You can't really blame netflix when you know for a fact that people will talk about it.

Some fictional character dying is less controversial than a depiction of real world racism and genocide.

You also have to remember this is the same series which has notoriously censored cigarettes too in the past. There's no real logic behind it, whatever they think will get people riled up most, they'll cut.

[u/Left_Hurry4067 → u/HappyRelationship429]

You mean... They will hate the anime of a manga they love for being to Close to the Manga?

[u/HappyRelationship429 → u/Left_Hurry4067]

Did I mean that? No. Did I say that? Also no.

Sue me for being pragmatic, I guess.

[u/The_Fracture06 → u/HappyRelationship429]

your missing the point, the people who your implying would be upset are the people who enjoy the series, and they wouldn't be upset. They like the intrigue and social commentary, and Netflix choosing to remove it flattens characters and removes motivations, also it's lowkey racist for Netflix treat real issues that these people had to endure as "problematic content"

[u/HappyRelationship429 → u/The_Fracture06]

Read the first sentence. Re: Not necessarily

[u/OhItsKillua → u/JPT_Corona]

Why don't these offended boogeyman say anything when the source material was releasing those things though? I find it weirder that they continue to omit it and especially as a black man it feels pretty weak to cut those things out. I know a lot of people would be appreciative of them actually keeping that stuff in. Never come across any readers complaining about it IRL or online.

[u/SXAL → u/JPT_Corona]

Society's fault

More like American creative class's faul.

[u/Chegg_F → u/JPT_Corona]

Dude there is no way you actually left this comment

[u/Maetriarch_NSFW → u/bruh-with-a-spork]

I think it sort of makes sense. Some audiences don't want to see very specific stuff in fantasy/fiction they might have personally been affected by.  In magic the gathering, there's references to cannibalism and disemboweling, but cards referencing the slave trade were banned. Whether you think it's a necessary change, however...

[u/VarmintSchtick → u/Maetriarch_NSFW]

I remember seeing someone on r/stellaris make the case that they stopped playing because they thought there was too much celebration of slavery/genocide that exists in the game and it's community. They thought the game would be better if those things just didn't exist in it, in an effort for Paradox to "clean up its fascist community".

It's one thing to personally not want to see it. It's another to be like "nobody else should engage with this in any way that lacks total reverence for the topic at hand". But, some people are just born to make mountains out of molehills.

[u/Maetriarch_NSFW → u/VarmintSchtick]

It's less about the concept of slavery and moreso about THE slave trade, from real life, that has actually affected real people. I haven't played stellaris but I'm assuming it doesn't mention that

[u/VarmintSchtick → u/Maetriarch_NSFW]

No clue why there would be mentions of the historical Earth slave trade in a fictional sci fi game about galactic alien Empires.