gaijinalways
puzzled gaijin
- 15 Jan 2006
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Recently on another forum, I had a bit of a laugh with a moderate right winger opining that he is a liberal! Strangely enough, several of his foreign friends on the board agreed (those these guys show a lot of mob mentality, so I don't value their opinions too highly). I know for example that the defintion of a liberal is different in Europe and the US, but this guy believes;
the Chinese, Taiwanese, and Koreans should stop whining about the Yasukuni Shrine (even if they didn't want their names on there)
Japan modernized parts of Korea, Mongolia, and China during the occupations of those areas and endowed the locals with 'equal' rights
denies there were any comfort women, claiming they were all working as willing prostitutes
claims the 731, etc units were only using prisoners on death row anyway
the Chinese keep using the Nanjng ツ'incident'as a political prod as Japanese soldiers killed a few people there, but few if any civilians
Defends the 'black van' guys by trying to claim they want foreigners to do the dirty work here (even as they broadcast that all foreigners should get out of Japan)
claims Japan is being singled out for criticism because of being Asian when looking at whaling issues (overlooking the fact that Norway and Finland are losing more tourism dollars as more of their main visitors are concerned with animal rights than most Asians coming to Japan)
has a theory of dangerous America/safe Japan which he uses to defend discriminatory practices in Japan concerning housing availablility, employment, etc..
believes in the foreign crime wave theory, even though the 'wave' is minimal with over half the crimes of foreigners being immigration violations while the majority of criminals commiting crimes and serving time in prison are Japanese
Can anyone figure out how a right wing history revisionist considers himself liberal? Most of his posts complain about how some foreigners should not be pushing for changes in Japan (since they are not Japanese) and they are not behaving like the Japanese!? The only thing that sounds liberal is his defintion of 'liberal'!
the Chinese, Taiwanese, and Koreans should stop whining about the Yasukuni Shrine (even if they didn't want their names on there)
Japan modernized parts of Korea, Mongolia, and China during the occupations of those areas and endowed the locals with 'equal' rights
denies there were any comfort women, claiming they were all working as willing prostitutes
claims the 731, etc units were only using prisoners on death row anyway
the Chinese keep using the Nanjng ツ'incident'as a political prod as Japanese soldiers killed a few people there, but few if any civilians
Defends the 'black van' guys by trying to claim they want foreigners to do the dirty work here (even as they broadcast that all foreigners should get out of Japan)
claims Japan is being singled out for criticism because of being Asian when looking at whaling issues (overlooking the fact that Norway and Finland are losing more tourism dollars as more of their main visitors are concerned with animal rights than most Asians coming to Japan)
has a theory of dangerous America/safe Japan which he uses to defend discriminatory practices in Japan concerning housing availablility, employment, etc..
believes in the foreign crime wave theory, even though the 'wave' is minimal with over half the crimes of foreigners being immigration violations while the majority of criminals commiting crimes and serving time in prison are Japanese
Can anyone figure out how a right wing history revisionist considers himself liberal? Most of his posts complain about how some foreigners should not be pushing for changes in Japan (since they are not Japanese) and they are not behaving like the Japanese!? The only thing that sounds liberal is his defintion of 'liberal'!