This is why DeviantART is awesome.

It seems to me to be a thought she had, written more like you'd find in a sci-fi story (seriously, I can imagine a story where they claim the Japanese are Martian off-shoots using this kind of 'evidence' to back their claim). While it's… immature and ill-thought, I wouldn't've thought it's meant to be racist.

You do put up a good point Fett. I do think that a conspiracy theory on how the Japanese had Martian heritage would be interesting, kind of like The Da Vinci Code. Where the story could have things on how their body types have inherint qualities of Martians (ie. the almond shaped eyes and naturally thin body shape), their advances in technology coupled with Y2K was a Martian plot for a mass takeover, or that their methodology of writing has some cryptic nature. If her story was something of that nature I can honestly say I wouldn't be as angry with it as I am now.

If it had some concise form of evidence that backs the claim, I would have been fine with it. The Da Vinci Code didn't piss me off as a Christian (with us notoriously getting pissed off at everything these days 😛 ) because it had some valid evidence backing it, although some of it was incorrect. To me at least, this 'story' seemed to be just an elongated version of the statment 'I don't think the Japanese are human and I base this on absolutly nothing.' That and the fact she's shown prior open disdain for the Japanese leads me to believe it has some prejudicial nature.

But mostly I'm just pissed that DA won't remove this despite being a clear violation of bigotry (which is clearly listed in the submission policy), yet they remove works of friends of mine when they are in no way a violation of the submission policies.