Australian Environmental Minister Likens Japanese To Toddlers
After the International Whaling Commission voted down Japan’s request to allow four costal villages to hunt whales, Japan’s representative has stated that Japan might leave the organization:
The 77-member IWC voted earlier in the week to allow aboriginal whaling for indigenous people in the United States, Russia and Greenland. Japan endorsed those whaling quotas and had asked for the same consideration.
“This hypocrisy leads us to seriously question the nature by which Japan will continue participating in this forum,” said Joji Morishita, the deputy whaling commissioner.
Australia’s environment minister responded to Japan’s statement by issuing his own statement yesterday, in which he likened the Japanese to children:
“It was a very bad conference for Japan,” Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull, an anti-whaling advocate who attended the Anchorage conference, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. TV.
Using a stinging colloquialism, Turnbull accused Japan of a “dummy spit,” “dummy” being an Australian term for a toddler’s pacifier that is spit out at the onset of a tantrum.
“I think their huge dummy spit at the end will not reflect well on Tokyo,” Turnbull said.
The “journalists” at CDNN went even further, reporting on Turnbull’s comments by running a story with the headline, “Japan needs clean diapers after IWC ‘dummy spit’” and including this picture/caption:
