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By: Bookworm Room » My mother’s war, courtesy of Pearl Harbor

Bookworm Room » My mother’s war, courtesy of Pearl Harbor — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:00:16 +0000

[...] My mother’s heading to the hospital again today. She’s not aging gracefully, in large part because of the damage done to her body and soul during WWII. I thought that this would be a good day for me to reprint what I once wrote about her war (originally part of this longer post about Japanese atrocities). [...]

By: The Razor » Blog Archive » The Council Has Spoken: March 26, 2010

The Razor » Blog Archive » The Council Has Spoken: March 26, 2010 — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:32:33 +0000

[...] Council: Bookworm Room – Tom Hanks shows stunning ignorance when he claims Americans were engaged in racial genocide against … [...]

By: Rhymes With Right

Rhymes With Right — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:06:07 +0000

This Week’s Watcher’s Council Results…

Winning Council Submissions First place with 2 1/3 points! Bookworm Room Tom Hanks shows stunning ignorance when he claims Americans were engaged in racial genocide against the Japanese during WWIISecond place with 2 points – The Razor Scorched E…

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:16:08 +0000

Council speak 03/28/0…

The council has spoken. Winning Council Submissions First place with 2 1/3 points! – Bookworm Room – Tom Hanks shows stunning ignorance when he claims Americans were engaged in racial genocide against the Japanese during WWII Second place with 2 points…

By: OBloodyHell

OBloodyHell — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:46:39 +0000

I was once given endless grief in a chat room for referring to third person Japanese (i.e., none present) as “Japs”. Not in any pejorative sense, just a contraction for the overly long “Japanese”. And the context had nothing accusatory or negative in it, either. It was only a contraction of a long and clumsy word I didn’t feel like typing out, nothing else.
The key thing about political correctness is that it’s solely derived from “white guilt”, and has no counterpart among the “other races” — black people are free to use insulting racist terms, as are orientals (sorry, NOT calling them “asians” as though they constituted the whole of Asia despite the Arabs, Indians, Persians, Siberians, etc.,etc.).
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The fact is, oriental cultures are some of the most xenophobic on the planet. There is mainly “us”(the oriental grouping) and “them” — anyone else not of that national group. This is reflected in their terminology built into their languages. The Japanese word for “foreigner” is “gaijin”… which also just happens to translate to “barbarian”. While, in English, one can certainly say “foreigner” in a context or with a tone than is condescending, there is no “secondary meaning” for the word which is insulting in itself.
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Chinese, as I understand it, works much the same way, with the insult in this case being that the Chinese word for “foreigner” also translates to “devil”.

By: OBloodyHell

OBloodyHell — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:21:03 +0000

> (something commonly done by all races about all other races in that pre-politically correct time) . As opposed to the current politically correct time, when it can be done by all races EXCEPT whites... .

By: OBloodyHell

OBloodyHell — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:17:06 +0000

> ....were engaged in war with Japan, not because they were racist Western nations anxious to destroy “yellow, slant-eyed dogs,” but because they were faced with an unusually brutal and rapacious enemy. It was kill or be killed. Indeed. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what’s actually going on today? The Japanese, for all their flaws, did have a code of honor and propriety when it came to war -- not always one in agreement with that of the West, it was a warrior code nonetheless. They failed, all too often (much as the US and Euros have failed sometimes) to adequately follow that code (especially against the Chinese), but it was there, and they did endeavor to follow it with all their failings. I don't believe the current enemy has any concept of honor, decency, or propriety which matches up with that of The West in any particular. They are, if anything, an even more "unusually brutal and rapacious enemy"

By: The Colossus of Rhodey

The Colossus of Rhodey — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:44:17 +0000

Watcher’s Council results…

First place in the Council category was Bookworm Room with Tom Hanks shows stunning ignorance when he claims Americans were engaged in racial genocide against the Japanese during WWII. First Place in the non-Council category was Abe Greenwald / Content…

By: Watcher of Weasels » The Council has Spoken 032610

Watcher of Weasels » The Council has Spoken 032610 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:02:10 +0000

[...] I emphasized the issues of the day, but this week’s winner, Bookworm Room’s Tom Hanks shows stunning ignorance when he claims Americans were engaged in racial genocide against … is less about contemporary issues (though it is a critique of the contemporary mindset among a [...]

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:13:32 +0000

Submitted 032610…

This week’s Watcher’s council nominations are up: Council Submissions Mere Rhetoric – Mearsheimer: Let’s Mainstream Anti-Israel Lies So “Support For The Jewish State” Will “Evaporate The Colossus of Rhodey – Does anyone recall the nets and papers…