27th June 2003, 7:23 PM
You don't like it's peoples? The only possible way to take that is in a racist tone!
...point being...? Am I trying to hide that? Just becuase you live in a peachy-lubby world of PC goodness and your standards are hippie-quality harmony doesn't mean mine are. I don't HATE anyone really...not the Japanese, not the Mexicans, not the Germans...but I do harbor grudges against some nationalities. Do I say Japs, and Spicks...? Yes. Do I dislike their culture and history...? Yes; based on very real historical evidence. DO I HATE THEM? Eh; no. I'm not trying to defend myself (nor should I even have to), but I'm just establishing a base to stand on.
if you have a problem with the war, may I remind you that all the people you have a problem with, the fighters, are retired or dead by now, and NOT the current generation that currently rules Japan.
Forgive and forget? Oh; sure...that's find and dandy. Oh wait, no it's not...who started WWII, inwhich 50 million (that's 50,000,000!) people were killed...? Germany and Japan. Maybe you can shrug that off...but I can't so easily dismiss that as being ancient history. Those people were very real, and many of them would still be alive today, and if not, then their descendants would be.
How can you possibly judge descendents based on the actions of their grandparents?
Like father like son. I don't hate ANY single nationality(that's ignorant and archaic); but as I mentioned I have...hesitations about some. An example would be...Iraq. Some Iraqis don't like us. Do all of them WANT to kill us? No. But for that exception, should I like Iraqis?
That's like saying "well, the murderer killed himself, but we have to punish someone, so let's kill the guy who was standing next to him in a movie line one time". They are SEPERATE PEOPLE you know.
Not quite the same thing...yet when a 12 year old steals his mother's car and runs over and kills someone, who gets in trouble, the parents who were ignorant or the 12 year old?
...point being...? Am I trying to hide that? Just becuase you live in a peachy-lubby world of PC goodness and your standards are hippie-quality harmony doesn't mean mine are. I don't HATE anyone really...not the Japanese, not the Mexicans, not the Germans...but I do harbor grudges against some nationalities. Do I say Japs, and Spicks...? Yes. Do I dislike their culture and history...? Yes; based on very real historical evidence. DO I HATE THEM? Eh; no. I'm not trying to defend myself (nor should I even have to), but I'm just establishing a base to stand on.
if you have a problem with the war, may I remind you that all the people you have a problem with, the fighters, are retired or dead by now, and NOT the current generation that currently rules Japan.
Forgive and forget? Oh; sure...that's find and dandy. Oh wait, no it's not...who started WWII, inwhich 50 million (that's 50,000,000!) people were killed...? Germany and Japan. Maybe you can shrug that off...but I can't so easily dismiss that as being ancient history. Those people were very real, and many of them would still be alive today, and if not, then their descendants would be.
How can you possibly judge descendents based on the actions of their grandparents?
Like father like son. I don't hate ANY single nationality(that's ignorant and archaic); but as I mentioned I have...hesitations about some. An example would be...Iraq. Some Iraqis don't like us. Do all of them WANT to kill us? No. But for that exception, should I like Iraqis?
That's like saying "well, the murderer killed himself, but we have to punish someone, so let's kill the guy who was standing next to him in a movie line one time". They are SEPERATE PEOPLE you know.
Not quite the same thing...yet when a 12 year old steals his mother's car and runs over and kills someone, who gets in trouble, the parents who were ignorant or the 12 year old?
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