GEL and Obeika, what you insist here is that your "Comfort Women" are prostitutes, our "Comfort Women" are sex slaves.
Uhhh, no. Actually, the term "comfort women" was applied to the prostitutes as a political buzzword because of it's obvious implications. And you are also putting words in our mouths. Your using the "straw man" fallacy here, saying that Obeika and I are saying that "oh, it's okay for U.S. troops to do it in Japan" which is absolutely
not what we are saying, and you should damn well know it.
My claim is that the two situations are
not even comparable and I think that's what Obeika is trying to say. Why?
Japanese government forced Korean women to sleep with Japanese soldiers.
vs.
Japanese government collected prostitutes and derelict Japanese women to "hire" them out to American soldiers.
There is a
vast difference between the two actions. Nowhere did the American government force the Japanese to do this. In addition, the system was dismantled after a number of months, it did not continue in perpetuity.
That is my argument. If you don't agree with it, attack it, don't try to use red herrings.
In 1945, here are three kinds of people, the white GIs and the black GIs of the victorious nation, and the non-white women of defeated nation...
Their human rights were all equivalence? I don't think so.
The racism was there. At that time was White supremacy not so criticized?
And the Japanese would have been so kind and generous to the white monkeys had they reached San Francisco, right? The roundeyes wouldn't have been raped and beaten like the Chinese, correct?
Look, I'm not arguing that anyone was justified in
any act of racism. But you cannot go around pointing your finger without having three of your own pointing back at you.
And guess what? White supremacy has been severely criticized in the United States ever since the 1960s. Hell, we are currently arguing to legalize millions of illegal immigrants. Compared to Japan, we are a paradise for those of diverse background. We require passports, as ID, but our cops don't go around harassing foreigners for their "gaijin cards".
Before people go around criticizing others, they should start examining themselves. And before anyone criticizes another country, they should take a hard look at their own and try to change their own first, before they try to change someone else's. At least, that's what plenty of people have been telling George W. Bush. Maybe they should start heeding their own advice.
Anyway it is impossible that only the US is always right.
Neither I nor Obeika ever said as much.