No I didn't say that: for the 100th time, STOP PUTTING WORDS INTO MY MOUTH
You mentioned "tastes are a part of who we are" in response to what I said about personal attacks. Why do that, if you actually agreed? The only reason to say that is if you're disagreeing. Any other interpretation involves assuming you were mentioning it for no real reason.
Thing is: he ACCEPTED another sequel: Madagascar 2. So that excuse is completely invalid: if they rejected my nomination for "technical" grounds he would have rejected Madagascar 2. Therefore the "technical" argument is moot.
...or he agrees that one is contingent on viewing the other films in the series and one isn't. Either way, it shatters the idea that this is all based on ignorance or xenophobia. Which you appear to assume almost immediately when there's a conflict, which is a lazy response that dilutes the seriousness of the charge.
True that. Many people here have very narrow ideas of what a movie is supposed to be and then when the movie fails to satisfy they prejudiced notions of what a movie is supposed to be they don't like it.
The point is, this is how you talk to people when they don't like what you do, and the fact that you don't
literally say you're talking about them is not much of a defense. The fact that you say, right to their faces, "someone" instead of "you," but then describe what you think they're doing, isn't much of a smokescreen. Which means you've frequently ascribed people's disagreements to their being American, which meets your own definition of bigotry.
So, that's 9 styles. Which one of these 9 is your so called "anime"? If 1 is "anime" the other 8 are not "anime". Or maybe it refers to another style than these 9?
This doesn't matter at all. What matters is that this explains that other people are using the word differently than you, and therefore are not using it in the way that would suggest bigotry. This, again, according to a source of your own choosing.
Thing is, nobody who is serious about animation uses "anime" to mean a style because it's bigotry to think that Japan's animation is all the same anyway. There is no such thing "anime style" which comes as obvious to a person who is not ignorant about animation.
...and if you were just calling people
ignorant, that might mean something. But you're not. You're calling them bigots. And that position is not defended in any way by explaining that there are different aesthetic styles or that people don't know much about them. In fact, that's more an argument the other way (see below).
Because from people's reactions here they appear to use "anime" to mean "any style of drawing portraying females with exaggerated facial features." Sometimes they use the term "anime" to mean "animated TV show featuring fantasy and action".
I'd say broader than that, but yes, something starting there is probably how most people here are using it. The important point being that they're not using it to encompass anything made by a Japanese animator.
Not true. In this forum the term anime is used to means all animation made by the Japanese people.
What on earth is this based on? Your entire argument hinges on this, yet you provide no evidence to support it.
Also, you
just said, in the quote above: "...from people's reactions here they appear to use 'anime' to mean 'any style of drawing portraying females with exaggerated facial features.'" So which is it? Are the people here using it to mean all animation made by Japanese people, or the style you just described?
Notice what you're trying to do here: you're trying to claim two mutually exclusive things, so you can criticize people in mutually exclusive ways. You are simultaneously saying that people are bigoted because when they say "anime" they're talking about any Japanese animation, but they're also ignorant because when they talk about "anime" they just mean "females with exaggerated facial features." It can't be both.
Of course, since most people here are completely clueless about Japanese comics and animation they think everything these yellow people draw looks the same so they think that there is such an "anime style", which is, again, bigotry.
Thinking that all Japanese animation follows the same style is like thinking that all Jewish people think in the same way.
This is nonsense. Different cultures have different aesthetic tastes, and they are often identifiable as such. Thinking there's a "style" of anime may be incorrect (or, less incendiary, just a little simplistic), but it's not bigoted.
There's a clear difference between thinking everything from a culture is
identical (which is a straw man), and thinking much art from a culture shares some aesthetic similarities. For example, despite the wide range of styles in the screenshots you posted, most people, whether fans of anime or not, would be able to identify most of them as Japanese in origin, yes? That would only be possible if they had a handle on some kind of similarity in style between them.