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heyyu
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Exactly, there exists shades. Shades that obviously people on here do not comprehend because so many people are quick to point to the usual "Japan is racist and xenophobic" rhetoric. I mean, this was one right-wing politician who says he does not like Mickey Mouse (which is obviously not a sentiment shared by many Japanese), and suddenly this board starts exploding with the usual "Those racist Japan, how DARE they say something bad about America" type posts. Seriously, in the past 2 years that I've visited this board whenever I hear about Japan, it's always "Japan is racist this and racist that and doesn't like China and doesn't like America and they're so bad and intolerant." And then all these armchair historians start going into their pseudo WWII lectures. I must have heard it hundreds of times (seriously, I don't even think your history professors spend this much time). Not to say we should ignore the atrocities of Japan's past. I mean, there is racism and xenophobic in Japan. But I'm sick of the constant Japan-bashing, especially from people like you that like to sit on their high horse, and start lecturing, "Those racist Japanese, tssk tssk tssk." Is that not the narrow-minded extreme that you're lecturing me on? |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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Time to lock this bloody thread now.
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hikura
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I see no real reason to lock this thread at all.Mind you one or two people make poorly worded responses doesn't mean it should be locked.Most everyone who has posted has been reasonable in their posts. |
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The Frankman
Posts: 1160 Location: Binary Culture HQ |
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IB4TL!!! |
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TwinSkies
Posts: 49 Location: Philippines |
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True, it only started heating up in the last few threads.
_____________________________________________________ Still, even if people like Ishihara were witness to the horrors of World War II, I doubt that gives him the right to blast other cultures, or to promote his own xenophobia, or to deny the atrocities that his own country have made. We've already heard our share of people who claim that the source of their overwhelming malice is from past traumas like these, and that the recurring nightmares of such incidents steadily shape them in each waking hour...but that hardly gives them any reason to be so outwardly bitter about matters they hardly know anything about, or aren't willing to see in full view. What I'm trying to get at here is that Ishihara may have his personal ghosts to deal with, but so do other people who have gone through the same hardships he has faced, if not worse. And the beauty of these people is they didn't hide from the world around them in their bigotry, or lash out at everything that barely resembled the object of their hatred...they grew up, and as harsh as the times they were in were to them, they turned out kinder. Mr. Ishihara may have shown his dislike for a particular culture -quite dramatically I might add- but if you listen very carefully to his speech, and the other statements he has made before this, despite the fact he's an influential politician, all I really see is an old, scared little man who's too afraid to open his eyes. |
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Shinobi X
Posts: 42 Location: Sacramento, CA |
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Ow! That's a really harsh words he spoke out to the public.
Tokyo's Governor I meant. He could've just keep it to himself and allow it to happen. |
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heyyu
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I hate Mickey Mouse. I'm a scared old man that's been scarred emotionally too. That's right, when I was younger I saw this mouse and tried to give it cheese but it just bit me. Then people started calling me a communist and anti-American because I refused to watch Mickey Mouse cartoons like the rest of the kids. Now whenever I see Mickey Mouse, I see the horrors of my childhood come to bear.
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TwinSkies
Posts: 49 Location: Philippines |
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Nice image of the mouse.
Maybe that was the first image Ishihara saw on the web when he was researching for his speech? That'd scare me stupid too...ROFL. |
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fighterholic
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Isn't this what locks? |
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Nagisa
Moderator
Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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Yep, and I TOLD HIM not to pull that stunt anymore. So what about that, Frankman? Looking for a ban now? |
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fighterholic
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Wasn't this from Runaway Brain? |
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JTtheBrick
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I'm sure those at Pearl Harbor can relate Ishihara. |
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Abarenbo Shogun
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Too busy being historically incorrect. "ZOMG, WWII IS STARTING!!" "HOW DO I FLY BOMBER?" ---------------------------------- Of course the guy.....is there a word for being phobic of caucasian stuff, since when Hollywood can't cast an Asian into a major role (I'm looking at you F&F3: Tokyo Drift) or edit out Asian references (i'm looking at you 4KIDS and TOKYOPOP!!) it's called Xenophobia? |
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darkhunter
Posts: 2992 Location: Los Angelas |
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This is a funny thread.
The last time I heard, our own president was cosider a racist. |
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fighterholic
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Are you referring to what this person had to say about Bush? |
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