Tonkyhonk wrote:jorb wrote:My intention is not to be inconsiderate, but I also cannot abide by the constant liberal insistence on societal protection for nigh on solipsistic categories of "offense". Offense is something you choose to take. Choose not to.
i dont think i was asking for "societal protection" unless you were talking about claeyt.
it seems you are the one going solipsistic about your judgement.
jeez, claeyt...ima report you for being an extreme racist against japanese
sorry but you are horribly wrong cause our core racism is more like
you are trying to show you know something, but it just shows that you fail after all.
I helped a professor of mine write a historiography about America in Asia and I had to help him research the 1853-54 Perry Expediton's opening of Japan and I remember the Japanese propaganda-like paintings of the Americans painted for the Emperor and the Kyoto government officials to show them what the Americans were like. The Japanese are just as bad as everyone else for using de-humanizing pictures of other races.
One of my favorite little factoids about that research was that I learned that Perry used a group of 6 free Black sailors (3 had been slaves) as his personal guards to intentionally scare the Japanese who had clearly never seen a Black man before. In a bizarre twist of history the White officers were recorded by a Japanese painter doing some period musical play for the Japanese in Black-Face about Plantation life and songs of the slaves. One can only imagine what the White Officers, the Japanese Officials dressed as Samurai and the Free Black Sailors in charge of guarding the Commodore were all thinking that night under the stars on that beach as they performed and watched that performance.
Here's the Japanese painting of the play.
Racism is what you make of it and is a product of your society and culture. It comes from not knowing or seeing the other person as a human being not so different from yourself.
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