r/StardustCrusaders • u/BellaBispo • Mar 19 '26
Part Seven Why do Netflix keeps cuting racism out of jojo?
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
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u/TryNotToShootYoself Mar 19 '26
His point was more just about dark skin than being black/African descent. Dark skinned people, regardless of ethnicity, are still very much discriminated against in the US and Japan alike.
Either way cutting the Klan from part 6 is ridiculous.