News Please Tolerate the Gaijins, Thank You

[Mike Cash]

Train conductor asks passengers to 'tolerate' the many foreigners：The Asahi Shimbun

南海電鉄車掌「外国人に辛抱を」　不適切として口頭注意：朝日新聞デジタル

This is just sad no matter how you slice it.

 

[Lothor]

Heard the story yesterday and sent a complaint to the company in question.
If anyone else wishes to do so (English and Japanese both OK), this is where you contact them.
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[Mike Cash]

I think the conductor has probably been sufficiently beaten up over this already.

From Mark Twain's "Traveling with a Reformer"

Then he quoted with admiration the conduct of a certain division superintendent of the Consolidated road, in a case where a switchman of two years' experience was negligent once and threw a train off the track and killed several people. Citizens came in a passion to urge the man's dismissal, but the superintendent said:

'No, you are wrong. He has learned his lesson, he will throw no more trains off the track. He is twice as valuable as he was before. I shall keep him.'

Travelling with a Reformer by Mark Twain

 

[Lothor]

I agree - I'm not baying for the blood of the conductor, but there's no harm in applying a bit of gaiatsu to make such events less likely to occur in future.

 

[thomas]

Actually, I am surprised (and glad) that at least one person complained.

I believe it is safe to assume that the sentiment voiced by the male passenger and the conductor was shared by a majority of the Japanese passengers.

 

[RolandtheHeadless]

They can't allow gaijins to run wild, without warning people.

 

[Mike Cash]

They can't allow gaijins to run wild, without warning people.

The railway company's position that it was 区別 rather than 差別 makes you wonder how they failed to think up "separate but equal" and implement gaijin-only cars (at the rear of the train, of course) as a solution.

I've witnessed people in Japan saying or doing 差別 things so many times and then immediately and peremptorily say "Oh, it's not 差別....I like foreigners!" without even having been called out on it, fully aware of the wrongness of what they have just said or did and apparently thinking that the element of hate is necessary for something to be discrimination and the only thing that makes it repugnant. I don't give a good goddamn if you hate my stinking guts because I'm a foreigner....just so long as you don't treat me differently for being one.

Of course...they could implement a leash law or require us all to be inside kennels when on public transport, I suppose.

 

[RolandtheHeadless]

I think gaijin-only cars is a great idea. Protect us from the molesters.

 

[WonkoTheSane]

Plus then I don't have to play the you sit, no you sit, no I insist you sit game with the other guy my age while some young Japanese whippersnapper sneaks in and sits down.

Screw the 外人 standing next to me, I'm sitting.

Can't decide on my answer to the poll...

 

[Mike Cash]

Can't decide on my answer to the poll.

Neither could I.

It's a 金太郎飴 of cringe.

 

[WonkoTheSane]

Neither could I.

It's a 金太郎飴 of cringe.

You and your ten dollar words... I bet the cat taught it to you!

 

[Mike Cash]

You and your ten dollar words... I bet the cat taught it to you!

 

[WonkoTheSane]

すみません猫王様寝てございます！

 

[FrustratedDave]

Meh, who really cares? Starting to sound like every other politically correct country in the world.

 

[Mike Cash]

Meh, who really cares? Starting to sound like every other politically correct country in the world.

You cared enough to revive a dead thread to let us know you don't care...

Nice to see you again. By some strange coincidence it was only three or four hours ago I was wondering how you are and why you haven't been with us for so long. I hope you have been well.