A South Korean Social Justice Warrior gathered a horde of offended Liberal Progressives to attack Sega for having a hoody on their store page featuring tails on the backdrop of the Japanese Imperial flag. After a day of dogpiling Sega to ban the hoody, the company bent the knee to the Social Justice Warriors and removed the hoody from their store.
It started with a tweet from Isa on May 21st, 2020.
The tweet complains about a hoody on the official Sega shop featuring tails and a transmuted version of the Japanese Imperial flag.
I can’t believe that official Sega shop did this. I just contacted them to delete that product. pic.twitter.com/JShgoIZItl
— *🎗이사𝗜𝘀𝗮* (@isa_yfn415) May 22, 2020
The pattern on the clothes reminds me of The rising sun flag. And this is no different from the Nazis flag in other countries, especially in Korea, and it’s too bad that this product reminds lots of people of a painful history is on the official site.
— *🎗이사𝗜𝘀𝗮* (@isa_yfn415) May 22, 2020
Centrists™ will probably run to the defense of the user, claiming “Even if Sega removes it from the shop, it’s not censorship!”
Well, that’s the very definition of censorship: to remove an object because it’s found to be objectionable.
Isa, in fact, makes it known that they wanted the hoody banned.
this is the product https://t.co/BRnRQ7N8Lr
If you wanna help us please contact here https://t.co/UBr4Uj1LGJ
— *🎗이사𝗜𝘀𝗮* (@isa_yfn415) May 22, 2020
Yes, they openly said that Sega “must delete” the product.
After directing people to contact Sega in order to get the hoody removed, on May 22nd, 2020 Sega removed the hoody from the store page.
If you head to the Sega shop page where the hoody used to be, it’s now gone and you’ll get a 404 page error.
Isa then celebrated the removal of the hoody on Twitter with several follow-up tweets.
We did it!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/ps08Y7471R
— *🎗이사𝗜𝘀𝗮* (@isa_yfn415) May 22, 2020
Thank you so much, I can’t believe that WE REALLY DID IT!
— *🎗이사𝗜𝘀𝗮* (@isa_yfn415) May 22, 2020
Some people attempted to claim that the hoody was simply sold out and that’s why it was no longer available, but Sega doesn’t remove sold out items from the shop, they simply list them as “Sold Out”, such as the Sega Saturn model kit.
So basically this is yet another case of cancel culture canceling out a product that they didn’t like.
It’s not bad enough for them to simply not buy products they don’t like, they also have to make sure that you can’t buy the products they don’t like either.
(Thanks for the news tip Plake Filmmaker)
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