Posted on 09/09/2021 4:13:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The attack on Pearl Harbor was "Japan's attempt to roll back Euro-American colonialism."
A University of North Carolina course titled "Global Whiteness" blames the West in general and the United States in particular for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Pacific Theater battles of World War II.
Campus Reform obtained the syllabus for the course that characterizes the Pacific Theater fight as "the first global attack on white Anglo-American hegemony" and "Japan's attempt to roll back Euro-American colonialism." The course's required text is Theodore Allen's The Invention of the White Race, vol. 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America. Professor Mark Driscoll's class also includes student presentations on topics like Donald Trump's racism and "interracial hookups on campus."
This is yet one more illustration of the insanity and rigid ideological control rampant on college campuses across America. Maniacal Marxist "mentors" incessantly attack the very country that lets them achieve wealth and tenure for spewing their toxic idiocy at often tragically receptive young people. The less logical and more insane the idea or claim, the better. On campuses across the U.S., professors now routinely teach that "White privilege" leads to horrible things like competence, discipline, self-control, literacy, meritocracy, politeness, and work ethic — by which they mean to excuse the opposite. Yet by attempting to legitimize incompetence, sloth, illiteracy, and rude behavior in this way, they also assign them to minorities. Can anything be more racist than that? That they usually get away with it illustrates their very real "progressive privilege."
College professors would have us believe that "global whiteness" caused 9/11, the Killing Fields, the extinction of the dinosaurs, COVID-19, Dutch Elm Disease, and the heartbreak of psoriasis.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“...did Japan feel justified that since European countries had colonies in Japan’s Asian back yard, why couldn’t Japan?”
This is correct. Japan wanted to be a colonial “great power” just like the Europeans, for what at the time seemed rational purposes, namely to acquire protected markets and secure sources of food and industrial materials. It deliberately set about creating an overseas empire in the 1890s. By 1937, besides bits and pieces of coastal China, it had Manchuria, Korea and Taiwan (Formosa) and a great number of Pacific islands. If it had limited itself to that, which was quite a lot, all would have been well (maybe, for a couple of decades anyway). But they went absolutely nuts in 1937.
Japan’s attempt to roll back Euro-American colonialism.”
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By colonizing the entire south Pacific
and attempting to colonize the entire Asian land mass.
... Weasel logic 101.
Maniacal Marxist “mentors” But it has just not been tried right yet.
But, wait! Why did the Japanese sign on with those Aryan races Germany and Italy! The AXIS Powers!
Colleges that teach some of this crap need to be out of business, because there are some good colleges that would take their place & teach useful things. Why do people spend good money & then put up with useless college courses/curriculum?
Chapel Hill. From his faculty page:
Adjunct Associate Professor, Global Studies
Research
My research primarily focuses on the East Asia region between 1895, when Japan began its project to colonize Taiwan, Manchuria, and Korea, and 1945, when the Allied Powers dismantled Japan’s extensive empire. I explore colonially inflected transformations in political and economic organization, philosophy, psychology, and literature, and focus on gender, sexuality, and ethnicity to carefully situate Japan’s rise to power. This work draws on my extensive academic training in the United States, France, and Japan; fluency in Japanese, proficiency in Chinese, and basic reading skills in Korean; and over five years of archival and field research in Japan and China. My published work cuts across several disciplines: postcolonial studies, cultural history, critical race and ethnicity studies, Asian studies, philosophy, and literature.
Courses
ASIA 57: First-Year Seminar: Dis-Orienting the Orient
ASIA 233: Drugs, Sex, and Sovereignty in East Asia, 1800-1945
JAPN 277: Empire of Sex: Eroticism, Mass Culture, and Geopolitics in Japan, 1945-Present
JAPN 375: The Culture of Modern, Imperial Japan, 1900-1945
Publications
My most recent book, published by Duke University Press in 2010, is Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895-1945.
G1.
One small problem
The Japanese first attacked China and fought there for years before attacking Pearl Harbor.
Thank you for figuring that out for me. I’m feeling especially dense this morning.
This professor sounds special!
Japan’s attempt to roll back Euro-American colonialism.”
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By colonizing the entire south Pacific
and attempting to colonize the entire Asian land mass.
White colonialism bad
Yellow colonialism good
... Weasel logic 101.
I think he should go teach in Kabul. He might get a warm welcome there.
If you think about it too much, you’ll go bonkers. Better to *drink*.
Bingo!
I’ve been saying for years eventually they would blame the US for Pearl Harbor, and claim Japan was just anti-Colonialist.
Now China is trying to do the exact same thing.
Tagged.
You are a fluke of the universe.
Chinese intelligence was behind the move to encourage Asians to join up with BLM...
Stirring the pot...
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