It's not good or bad, it's celebration, it's a catharsis and a result of anger and the anger does not do a background check.
As for the white kid, chances are you are actually talking about racialized people or activists who fight day to day colonialism and imperialism head on, and not random souls just saying nonsense for the fun of it without thinking.
Yeah.. while I CAN agree with Blax about the similarities of Luffy with the christian symbolism with gear 5, people who do not know how a story works should not try to analyze shit. Especially CEO gourous. Especially if they are trying to convert. One Piece is a MIX of multiple cultural reference, the religious aspect (which is still debatable) is only one of them.
Systemic racism is racism. The distinction is only the result of scientist and activist trying to push back a more accurate definition on the concept when it was dumbed down and missused by people l:ike you. Racism is a domination system.
Not really no.
I'm just saying, Nika looks like Jesus Christ does, and he's called a deity who frees slaves, which is also what Jesus does
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Revelation 1:14-16
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
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Matthew 17:1-2
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
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Also
In the Bible there is a theme, that the word of God is a sword, and it's sharper than any two-edged sword, and in Revelation, Jesus has a sword that comes out of his mouth.
And Nika has a two-edged sword, and hypothetically speaking, if it came out of his mouth, it would be held in the way we see it be held
And Nika has direct christian ties in story, because Kuma has a Bible and seems to worship Nika
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I actually think there is more reason to think Luffy may not be recognised as the king of the pirates globally in story, than that Nika is not in-universe Jesus