I want to point out that the same type of people who say that characters who look or act younger than they are are “underaged coded”, will also infantilize real adults (such as K-Pop idols or basically any celebrity from East Asia/SEA who as an accent/isn’t fluent in English) by saying they’re a “smol baby” who “needs to be protected”. I’m not Asian so I can’t really say it’s racist, but it at the very least seems odd, and with the other racist things antis do, it wouldn’t surprise me if that it does count as racist. – Ezra
Infantalizing Asian people is absolutely racism in action.
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