Worst Way to Protest Japanese Government Policy: Anti-Japanese Hate
Props to the blogs ZERO and J-Life, which have fairly pointed out that hate should not be a part of protests against Japanese government policies one does not agree with. Here are two examples of hate-filled activism:
1) Somebody has set up this site in response to Japan’s new immigration system. It contains strong objections to the fingerprinting system, but it also has an “A to Z” of anti-Japanese statements and statistics, a good many of them wildly exaggerated or even completely false.
2) A company that operates aquariums across Europe is calling for a boycott of Japanese goods. This isn’t a bad thing in itself, but when you let every child under 14 who signs a statement declaring they will ask Santa not to bring them anything made in Japan this Christmas, it seems pretty ugly. Propagandizing those not old enough to properly research the situation and come to a decision themselves is pretty low. At least let them grow up before they have to decide whether or not they want to denounce Japan. [Side note: Even if they sign the statement, they technically should be able to get their hands on Japanese video game systems, since many are manufactured outside of Japan.]
These are perfect fuel for those who want to write off opposition to whaling and the new immigration system. A hate site linked with condemnation by a prominent activist could be used to claim the movement against fingerprinting is too radical to be taken seriously, and the anti-Japanese Santa messages promotion is exactly the kind of stuff that produces a nationalistic response in favor of maintaining whaling.
Any opponents of Japan’s new immigration system or whaling practices who want to be taken seriously should probably distance themselves from those who use hatred and xenophobia as tools of activism.
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I can definitely understand people’s outrage with whaling and, especially, Japan’s decision to treat it’s visitors as criminals before they’ve even left the airport. I agree that this kind of hate is wrong, but I think children would be well able to understand that continuing to hunt an endangered species is wrong – in fact, I think everyone understands that’s wrong, with the exception of Japan.
As for boycotting Japanese goods, I don’t think that’ll happen anytime soon.
“I think children would be well able to understand that continuing to hunt an endangered species is wrong – in fact, I think everyone understands that’s wrong, with the exception of Japan.”
What endangered species are you referring to, and by what organization’s definition of endangered? None of the species targeted by Japan’s latest whaling expedition seem to be in significant danger of extinction.
Some population numbers I found in Wikipedia:
Humpback (”at least over 70,000 humpback whales worldwide”)
Fin whale (2,000 to 5,000 in the Antarctic, 40,000 to 50,000 in the North Atlantic)
Minke (”in the order of 184,000″)
Japan’s whaling expedition is going to kill 50 humpbacks, 50 Fin whales, and about 900 minke whales. Can someone explain to me how such a small hunt is going to threaten these species with extinction?
“…in fact, I think everyone understands that’s wrong, with the exception of Japan.”
Leaving aside the fact that Japan is not hunting endangered species, I thought that Norway and Iceland also hunt whales. I wonder if they are subject to anywhere near as much heat as Japan for engaging in this activity.
Look on the same Wikipedia page you are citing and you will see that fin whales are listed as endangered. As defined by the IUCN. Yes, Japan is killing endangered whale species.
The Finn Whale considered endangered by the IUCN, but killing 50 of the 40,000+ whales is hardly the environmental problem activists make it out to be. There are far more important and far more grave environmental issues out there, and many species that are in critical danger of extinction that are getting practically no attention compared to these whales.
Well, hunting an endangered species is still very wrong IMO. And of course, there are other environmental problems, but that does not mean that we should ignore this one.
From the look of his replies, I think Debito is saying that it’s OK to lie and hate, and it’s OK for him to support lies and hate, because some Japanese lie and hate foreigners. Oh, and it’s irony so it doesn’t count anyway.
I think taking that position is going to come back and haunt him. Satire, irony and hate are three very different things, and the only irony (in the Alanis Morrissette sense) I can see is that Debito has complained before about Japanese using false statements against gaijins, yet here he is supporting false statements against Japanese.
Debito’s other link to Keeping Pace in Japan:
http://www.keepingpaceinjapan.com/2007/11/running-in-fear.html
Is satire, and I have no problem with it, except that it didn’t really do anything for me.
What I want to know is: Do they even WASH these devices? I don’t want to be touching something that 1,000,000 filthy people have put their fingers into (especially after they have gotten off a long flight picking their noses and going to the bathroom).
I imagine that if you were to swab one of those fingerprint scanners and put it in a petri dish you’d find all sorts of nasty stuff growing in it after a couple of days. Of course, there’s no mention of this in the news.
“Japan’s whaling expedition is going to kill 50 humpbacks, 50 Fin whales, and about 900 minke whales. Can someone explain to me how such a small hunt is going to threaten these species with extinction?”
Those population numbers seems very low. It’s also the principal, there are very few whales left (as your statistics show) and killing 1,000 of them, regardless of whether it’ll plunge the species into extinction or not, is wrong. Besides, Japan is the world’s second wealthiest country – they don’t need these whale at all. I don’t support all the anti-Japan propaganda organizations like Greenpeace are using, but I can most certainly understand their frustration and anger at this completely idiotic, archaic practice.
The fingerprinting business won’t do any favors for Japan’s reputation as being a regimented, xenophobic society.
In fact, the more and more I learn about Japan, the less and less I want to do there.
So out of interest, how many humpbacks would there have to be before you would condone killing 50?
That’s not important, the point is that whale populations are tiny. Yes, killing 50 won’t make that much of a difference, but like I said it’s the principal that counts.
There are about 2000 pandas in the world today, sure it’s okay to kill 20 or 30 of them for fur, by your logic?
Japan does not need to whale, it’s a tradition that needs to stop.
I am just asking you to define “tiny.” How big does a population need to be before we can hunt it? Since the whole fuss over killing whales is about their endangered status, then I should think that the number of humpbacks required for a sustainable kill was in fact the very essence of the debate.
And 50 from 70,000 means we only get to kill 1.4 pandas from 2000 (1/1400th of the population). And I am sure China would be very happy if that is all poachers took.
Come to think of it, we probably kill a greater fraction of the cattle or sheep population each year….
Okay then, is it okay to even kill one panda, despite the fact it wouldn’t have any effect on the population overall?
Can you actually justify hunting whales at all?
“Okay then, is it okay to even kill one panda”?
Yes. Killing one panda is probably fine in terms of preserving the species: it’s not a huge loss – one percent – in terms of genetic variation and breeding numbers.
“Can you actually justify hunting whales at all?”
Now we are getting into purely moral reasons – I can justify killing whales by saying that they are food. People who are opposed say that there are other sources of food. But then many of them eat beef and pork – can that be justified when there are soy products and other vegetables? And so on. I am not interested in the moral issues of whaling, but the practical or legal.
Yeah, and the Holocaust only killed <1% of the total human population…so it’s acceptable…in fact, it even is a good thing because it was for scientific purposes (effects of certain chemicals, etc) and it’s dealing with human overpopulation… *rolls eyes*
Can’t see why the mention of humans – they’re not endangered.
No, wait…I see – you’re trying to say that 1% of any animal population is too much, right? You go out there protesting beef and pork, right?
Or…could it be…Godwin’s Law at work?
Well, it’s a bit more than what you suggest, but I won’t nitpick about poor reading comprehension since you’re from Japan. Lord knows my ability to read Japanese is far worse.
Actually, I have protested ‘beef and pork’ and their treatment, among other things, and it’s amusing and ignorant for you to suggest it in a manor as if I hadn’t.
As for Godwin’s Law, it maybe so, but again, I simply used that example as it is the most familiar and iconic example of Human slaughter. I guess I’m somewhat of a coward in the regard that I could have used the more familiar (for Asian’s at least) Nanjing massacre and human experimentation, but I didn’t want to turn a simple disagreement of opinion into an open invitation about lies, number falsification, and a shit flinging contest at whatever my assumed ethnicity would be.
Since I don’t see any protests about beef and pork form you on this page, then yes, I am ignorant about your views on it, in the same way I am ignorant about your height. If you have previously mentioned them, then tell us where. Or don’t be surprised when people don’t remember/know.
If you are going to accuse me of poor reading comprehension, then care to explain just what and where I have missed?
(BTW, “manner” not “manor”; “Asians” not “Asian’s”….)
And you have yet to demonstrate the validity of the link between mass human killing and whale hunting. However if you truly believe that hunting whales is akin to the Holocaust or the Nanjing Massacre then we have little to discuss.
You know, Overthinker, there’s a lot more cattle and pigs, in terms of actual numbers, in the world than whales. And cattle and pigs are farmed by humans, with processes designed to maximize their fertiity. Whales aren’t.
Now do you get it?
I’m sick of hearing about whaling…-_-
Gaijin, to make japan like you, youre going to have to show that you like japan. -_-
As for the argument that Japan is wealthy, Japan does not need it, it is vegetarian’s argument:it also works for, e.g.,beef.
As for the site for No Olympics for Japan, it is Debito who linked it with the anger against the fingerprinting. What’s more, he banned my last comment on his blog to the effect essentially the same as Ken Y-N 2007-11-24 23:09:52.
I enjoy different perspectives, and it is perfectly all right to protest, but let’s be fair.
Debito tends to ban posts he doesn’t agree with. That “ban the Olympics” link is rather dodgy: he says it is one of two that left “a lasting impression” and the fact that he doesn’t offer any personal condemnation of the anti-Japanese rhetoric, but rather says venting is a good thing, definitely looks like tacit support. And when ponta objects to the contents, he says (shouts, in net-speak) “NOT SO PLEASANT WHEN UNFOUNDED ACCUSATIONS APPLY TO JAPANESE, NOW, IS IT?” So is he just going to link to rabid anti-Japanese sites to give the Japanese a taste or xenophobia or something? Surely the Koreans can do better than that if that’s the case….
I do note that many of the comments on the post are opposed to that site, however.
If you count kenY-N, me and Thomas as most, yes.
But it seems others are sympathetic to
gaijin ura file,the Japan bashing site, and Debito-san’s posting it.I find it absolutely horrific that Debito would link to such a page and shout at people who disagree with the page’s opinions. Considering how much he complains about racism, I find it quite hypocritical for him to link to a racist page full of exaggerations and spew and not condemn it, even if it does share his opinions about fingerprinting.
I also find it unfair for him to ban posts he doesn’t agree with. If it were just flames/trolls, that’s one thing…but even reasonable disagreements? That just seems wrong. At least the people at Japan Probe don’t delete or ban comments they don’t agree with, or shout at the posters.
Debito-san’s comment section is very deceptive.
He admits the comment that agree with him attacking my motivation he alleged(victim complex), he reject the comment to the effect the same logic applies to him. I guess there are a lot of others whose comment were rejected because they disagree with him.
Personally I don’t give a shit about the anti-Japan site:a lot of such sites are floating on the net. But I just don’t understand why a human activist who accused the shops of selling a offensive book, “gaijin crime file” which was filled with half-truth, and hatred are linking , in a way, “selling” the site filled with half-truth, and hatred like that.
We know the shops admitted they were wrong and stopped selling the offensive book .
Angry people don’t provide balanced and thoughtful information but tend to grasp at the strongest representations of the negative attributes of a culture they can and portray them as “truth”.
The sad thing is that, as with the anti-American crap that is commonly spewed by America haters, this anti-Japanese rhetoric is based in small grains of truth. That allows the person who is spreading it to feel smugly correct rather than recognize their bigotry for what it is. The best thing people who object to this can do is deconstruct his statements and provide balance and undistorted truth.
Seems like much of the gaikokujin-generated expressions of anger about fingerprinting (or whaling), whether it is irrational bigotry or well-reasoned protest, is useless because it goes almost completely unnoticed by the people who have the power over these things.
Yes. There are a few comments about it in Japanese, some from the usual right-wing (anti-Korean often) blogs that fall into the trap of thinking *any* security, or rather promise of security, is better than none, no matter what it costs (both financially and ethically), but also some protesting remarks, such as from Mindan, and this article in the Chugoku Shimbun I found:
http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/News/Sp200711180227.html
What a lot of r/w Japanese blogs seem to miss is that foreigners aren’t demanding to be treated the same as Japanese (Japanese have and always will sail through immigration with a quick flip of the passport and a “kikoku” stamp – the same for citizens of pretty much any country) but for their treatment not to get *worse*.
Besides, I think the reason against the system looks weak for the Japanese.
Few Japanese would really care when they are fingerprinted at the U.S. and British airport:so far, I have never heard of the complaints.
They would think they are fingerprinted not because they are suspect of terrorists, but because the government are trying to find such suspects.
If domestic American and English people do not care if foreigners are fingerprinted in entering the country, it might be a sign that it is not evil system after all.
The law is mainly supposed to be for the terrorist, not for the illegal immigrants, but if illegal immigrants gets caught too by the system, what the big deal?
For my part, so far the strongest argument against it I’ve heard is that it takes much more time than before.
Surely it should be improved in this regard, but the argument is not against the fingerprinting itself.
Another convincing argument is that the government may
abuse the fingerprint. That is possible, still, it is too abstract to me.
So I can’t decide if it really matters.
The increased time is certainly a major factor – probably the major, for me. Last time I arrived at Kansai without a re-entry permit, it took our short foreigners line twice as long to go through as the far longer Japanese line. Japanese immigration procedures are slow, and even for re-entry permits it can take a couple of minutes.
The question about the purpose of the law supposes that the official purpose of the law is its real purpose.
The reason few Japanese complain about the US system is because they are tourists, and if you note, the current anger in Japan is largely from foreign *residents* of Japan, who have seen a right they once enjoyed (to line up as residents and be processed faster) taken away and be lumped with those who haven’t demonstrated already to the GOJ, through visa applications, that they should be allowed in. And it’s the foreign residents, not tourists, who are least able to just walk away, many having families and jobs in Japan, homes, equity, and a life.
(Of course the whole bit about visas only allowing you to reside and not enter (hence the need for re-entry permits in the first place) is very stupid.)
Do you think if the quicker measures is offered for the foreign residents, that will solve the issue?
It will certainly help. I have seen comments by frequent business travellers resident in Japan whose main complaint is the time issue. I only go overseas once, maybe twice a year at most, myself, but for those that go twice a month, it would be a serious difference.
Ponta, I feel that many of the complainers are primarily complaining about no longer being able to waltz through the Japanese queue, but instead having to line up with all the common or garden gaijin. However, so as not to appear selfish, they instead focus on slipperly slope-type arguments, usually about how the police are going to start planting gaijin fingerprints everywhere.
Thanks.
It helped me understand the issue.
I’ll keep watching the debate.
To assume that there are no Americans that despise the American fingerprinting of foreigners is completely wrong.
It might be true that there are domestic Americans who despise the American fingerprinting of foreigners.
But do you hear the strong voice against this system from domestic Americans?.
Do you watch American media interviewing dissidents’ voice from the people entering the U.S.?
Not that I know there isn’t, I am just curious.
I have seen some strong comments in online forums like frequentflyer.com (if I remember the URL right). Trouble it it’s hard to tell sometimes if a comment is from an American or not.
I would like people to see this and hopefully spread it around: http://anodyne.paradox.googlepages.com/home
It is a site I just made in retaliation to nofj16. It’s not the greatest, seeing as I just pulled it up in about half an hour with a teeny bit of researching, but at least I’m not spewing crap like he/she/it was. If you all could maybe spread this around and let people decide for themselves whether they want to hate Japan or not, it’d be much appreciated. Thank you.
-Kate
Kate,
Glad you put up that site, but I have to say I don’t understand the use of the U.S.’s fingerprinting of foreigners to justify the fingerprinting of foreigners in Japan. They’re both wrong.
I think all japanese complain even if the fingerprint is taken from the Japanese in the foreign country.
I cooperate it with pleasure.
I think we’ve gotten a little off track here. Going back to boycotts – using children as an arsenal is not only despicable, it doesn’t strengthen your case. To deny a little boy a Nintendo… well, the horror, the horror.
How in the world did we get back to whaling after all that?
If anyone is offended by my satire:
http://www.keepingpaceinjapan.com/2007/11/running-in-fear.html
please let me know, but it was intended to be a big joke.
It was a very useful post.
These are perfect fuel for those who want to write off opposition to whaling and the new immigration system.
I think we know that a few useless sites won’t provide anyone fuel on either side. Who knows if they were just set up to have exactly this intended effect? If they’re anonymous Google pages, it’s not worth even taking seriously.
Are we going to start taking every anonymous nutjob on 2ch seriously now, too? Even when they’re just posting to get a rise out of people on purpose?
By itself it’s a worthless little site like so many other hate sites on the net.
But when a leading foreigner rights activist links the googlepages site, and refuses to condemn it when people commenting on his site complain about its hateful content, it becomes a problem.
True, but what you’re saying in the reply above isn’t what I was commenting on.
Not only does Japan hunt whales but also Iceland, Norway, Alaska, Greenland, Canada, USA, Indonsesia, Caribbean. Infact in the IWC meetings more countries are in favour of Japan´s whaling than countries who oppose it. Boycotting Japanese products because of whaing would be ridiculous for a number of reasons. Countries like USA and Canada should boycott themselves because they hunt them too. Norway has been hunting whales longer than Japan and they should also be boycotted then.
As for finger printing. Welcome to police state. If it is a police state then it should not be a racist one so they should check every finger and not only gaijin ones, Sooner or later we wil have micro chip drilled in our brain and be monitored every single move.
US, Japan already got them though I hope it woun´t be like that in EU I would not be too suprised if they started using the finger print device
“Norway has been hunting whales longer than Japan and they should also be boycotted then”
Yes, definitely. In fact in protest I have stopped buying Norwegian televisions and cars. Nor do I watch Norwegian cartoons.
Norway is the second or thrid largest oil exporer in the world.
Debito makes his support for hate and lies more clear:
http://www.debito.org/index.php/?p=788
So by that he means that I (and you too James) who oppose this site am guilty of hate speech and unsubstantiated accusations about gaijin? Look on the bright side, though, at least we haven’t been called Uncle Toms.
All this about how The Man is keeping us down does nothing for me, bar making me roll my eyes.
Posting a link doesn’t mean that someone supports the link. Debito just stated that those were some of the links that “leave a lasting impression.”
I would think that after all the huff this site got with the Yamanote Halloween deal that we’d all be able to see the difference between linking something and supporting it.
The site is very angry and very extreme. Yet extremes often do a decent job of mobilizing people and setting where the moderates are at. I’m not a fan of it myself,a nd Debito said that he was ok putting angry links up. However, a lot of the stuff that’s been put up has been in the news at some point or another, so I guess the key point would be that if you believe it’s racist, you should probably point it out to him directly.
James came out and stated he was not at all in support of the Yamanote Halloween, which is a big different.
However, I see the second highlighted paragraph above as nothing less than support from Debito for that site. If you interpret it differently, please let me know.
I also don’t like bandying the racist word around, as it devalues it to use it to label everything even mildly objectionable.
Finally, I don’t agree that lying about Japanese is a valid defense/counter-attack strategy versus lies or distortions against foreigners.
PS: The nofj16 site has been updated and a few erroneous numbers removed, but other dodgy statistics remain with a footnote about having seen the numbers in the papers once. There’s also some new laughably bad statistics, like 45% of the population have no mains sewerage, or 48% of children never finish/graduate from high school.
I did interpret it differently. Granted, I’m not in support of the site either, and I don’t think Debito is as well. That particular blog entry was concerning the massive reaction that the blogosphere had generated in response to the law, in which case sharing the two websites as examples would have been appropriate.
Doesn’t necessarily mean he condones it. Hell, I think when he wrote about the shoe being on the other foot he was pointing out that the tactic was roughly similar to those on the other side, despite the fact that we know one person doing something bad doesn’t justify someone else doing something bad.
The aquarium thing is also stupid, but that is neither here nor there.
Selling a magazine like gaijin ura file at the covinience store does not necessarily means the shops support it and yet people were offended and protested it and the shop stopped selling it as we all know.
Posting a site like that at the human right activist’s site is pretty offensive and I protested, whether to show the anger, to have people suffer in the same way some gaikokujin suffered . He still keeps posting it.That pisses me off.
I think some of gaikokujin are showing a bad example to Japanese—essentially, they are saying when gaikokujin did something some Japanese do not politically agree with, it is completely okay to sell a magazine like gaijin ura file to show the anger.
That said, note I am not saying everything Debito-san is doing is bad. I repect his agenda while I don’t like his tactics. Anyway, he did a great job on Nova teachers and others. But I wonder why some gaikokujin can not condemn Debito-san’s putting up race hate site when they condemn gaijin ura file so vehemently?
1986 – at an international whaling convention
“ok, everyone… you whalers have almost brought every type of whale to total extinction. What’s wrong with all you losers? What did you plan on doing once they were gone forever? From now on, no more whaling for food or oil or anything… got it?”
1988 – to the IWC
“but wait…. some nation or other would like to kill one whale to learn more about whale gestation. Can they kill just one? C’mon, just one. pleeeeaaase.”
“k… just one then.”
1991 – to the IWC
“what the heck man. If they can kill one, we should be allowed to kill one or two also. It’s only fair.”
“k… every country can give itself its own quota for killing whales for scientific research. I mean, we’re all responsible nations right?”
19whatever – to the IWC
“umm… hi, this is Japan. We would like to do some research too. We’d like to research… ummm… the difference in dorsal fin sizes among the humpback whale population. Yeah, that’s it. And we’ll need a sample of about 100 fins… no, a thousand fins! Yeah. We know we could do this in a completely non-lethal way, but these whales… they’re just so darn delic…”
“Kato!”
“ummm… I mean… they’re just so scientifically attractive… or big… or something…. whatever they are, they’re not delicious. Nobody would eat a whale… especially not raw! you crazy?”
2006 – to Japan
“Hey Japan. I thought we agreed that we wouldn’t kill anymore whales. The 7000 whales you’ve killed so far have provided no data of any scientific value at all. Stop killing whales unless it really and truly is for scientific reasons.”
2008
“Of course all these killings are for scientific reasons. Can’t you see the word “RESEARCH” in bold letters on the side of the giant meat packing ship?”
If Japan wants to whale, let them go through the democratic (and legal) process that we currently have in place at the IWC. They need 75% of the vote to remove the internationally agreed upon moratorium. They can’t do it, so they cheat. If you can’t see this, you’re either a complete idiot or you’re Japanese – to be honest, I don’t think there’s much of a difference.
Using a loophole to get around international law is an insult to every law-abiding nation on Earth. And killing a wild animal that is considered threatened just so they can have more choices on their sushi menus is criminal… loophole or no!
So, strictly for your reading pleasure, I thought I’d provide a list of companies that you probably didn’t know were Japanese:
Bridgestone
Pioneer
JVC
Panasonic
7/11
Canon
Citizen
Pentax
Sharp
Debito here. Hi all. This is a very old thread, sorry for only recently discovering it.
Thanks for your comments, everyone. Let me offer a brief reply:
1) I posted a link to that site on the Olympics because there were sentiments (some, not all) which I believed deserved an ear and a critique. I don’t have to agree with a mindview 100% before I direct some attention towards it (more on this here). And just because I approve (or in Ponta’s case, don’t approve) comments on my blog doesn’t mean I agree with them. In fact, I found it a tad interesting how the same tactics employed there in English occasioned a lot more furore than the same tactics used on Japanese sites. Again, shoe on other foot.
(and sorry about the use of CAPS in comments–it was stylistic, not shouting, and I’ve since realized how it came off and stopped it)
2) I don’t understand why people would equate what somebody else has written with something I have written (except, in the case of an attack blog or two–present company excepted–to score debate points within the wolf pack). If you want to criticize my writing, go ahead. But again, don’t attribute everything on my blog with my personal seal of approval (for what that seal is worth, anyway).
3) As for the perpetually yelping “Ponta”, I don’t delete people’s comments because (as he has claimed elsewhere) they are from fellow Japanese. I delete his comments because they are “Ponta”’s. No doubt this post will find its way onto his little “memorandum” graveyard of deleted stray yelps of his, but never mind. He’s long since proven himself on Debito.org and other sites to be a troll, and uses all their tactics. Except he’s the first to squeal “racism”, and ultimately lace his online persona with hypocrisy.
Anyway, thanks for thinking about points raised on Debito.org, everyone. That’s what the site is for.
Arudou Debito in Sapporo
2) I don’t understand why people would equate what somebody else has written with something I have written (except, in the case of an attack blog or two–present company excepted–to score debate points within the wolf pack). If you want to criticize my writing, go ahead. But again, don’t attribute everything on my blog with my personal seal of approval (for what that seal is worth, anyway).
Bullshit, Debito. If you see fit to put something on your blog, that is giving it your “seal of approval”. You post a link to that hate-filled anti-Tokyo-Olympics site, and say “hey everyone, look at this!” that is saying “I’m Arudou Debito, and I approve of this message.”
You post Aly Rustom’s racist “Japan endorses the murder of foreigners by its nationals” on your site, and that too is saying “I’m Arudou Debito, and I approve of this message.”
You unfairly and maliciously accuse a ballet school of racism, and then try to weasel out of it saying “I didn’t say that, the Pakistani guy did!” It doesn’t matter – “I’m Arudou Debito, and I approve of this message.”
You don’t get it, do you? You go after the owner of 2ch saying he is responsible for what other people post on the site, that somehow he is behind everything on there whether he checks it or not, and yet you go out and personally upload hate speech and racist drivel and try to say “I’m not responsible.” You want Japan to enact laws against hate speech, and then engage in it yourself! Holy hypocrisy!
Someday your stunts, double-talk and racist bullshit are gonna bite you on the ass. Here’s hoping that day comes sooner rather than later.