From this thread over on /r/leftypiece where I've been arguing with vaushites who are currently trying to push people against this.
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fishman island is about what if malcolm x assassinated mlk and falsely blamed white people for it to get more people to become reverse racist (which is a real thing in this scenario i guess)
Like, I really really like that the moral of the story is that "racism can arise just from the ambient culture, if inherent biases are left unchecked and unchallenged" but man was this the clumsiest metaphor to do that with, Oda really bit off more than he could chew here
yeah oda was absolutely not qualified to tell a story about race and so he defaults to using standard shonen manga style "ahh, the cycle of violence must be stopped," which is basically what he does in skypeia as well
in general, while oda is way ahead of most of his peers in most areas (trans rights included these days, but also he was so far below the curve there for a long while so i'm not going to give him any credit there) he's still a kinda lib guy making an incredibly mainstream piece of serialized art on strict deadlines and i think the number of people acting like it's the most radical piece of art in anime spaces only hurts it
i'm not opposed to allegory (i fucking love revolutionary girl utena, a show that has an insert song that ends with a choir singing "ALLEGORY! ALLEGORIER! ALLEGORIEST!") but when your allegory for political change ends with the rightful king restored almost every single time (including the rightful king of a settler colonial state, the indigenous people of which are leading guerilla warfare against!) i think that the allegory is broken