Quote Originally Posted by SeiyaSoiya View Post
the only people who are professionally qualified to dictate what is appropriate for a culture are licensed journalists, who are taught to be the gatekeepers of information for a country or community
translators have no business being journalists.
You say this in (what I hope is) in jest, yet there are people out there who genuinely believe this, that Japanese media is inherently 'problematic' and needs to be censored/watered down before it can be safely consumed by Western audiences.

I find no respect for such people.