Posted on 07/22/2021 1:49:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Tokyo Olympics organizers have fired the opening ceremony director on the eve of the event after reports emerged of a past joke he had made about the Holocaust, while media said former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a strong advocate of the Games, would also not attend.
The latest in a series of embarrassments for the Tokyo organizers comes just days after a well-known musician was forced to step down as composer for the ceremony after old reports of his bullying and abusive behavior surfaced. […]
Tokyo Games organizers fired Kentaro Kobayashi on Thursday over a joke he made about the Holocaust as part of a comedy act in the 1990s that recently resurfaced in domestic media.
“I offer my deep apology for causing trouble and worry for many people concerned as well as Tokyo residents and Japanese people when the opening ceremony is almost upon us,” said a somber Seiko Hashimoto, who heads the organizing committee.
Earlier, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights organization, released a statement saying Kobayashi’s association with the Olympics would “insult the memory” of the 6 million Jewish people who perished in the Holocaust. …
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...for a joke made perhaps as much as THIRTY YEARS AGO.
Notice also that his having made a joke is referenced numerous - but that the joke, itself, is never cited verbatim.
Regards,
Strange “humor”.
He should of claimed he was a woke women.
"Kentaro Kobayashi, a comedian, was dismissed one day before the opening ceremony of the pandemic-delayed Games for the skit in which he said 'Let's play Holocaust.'"
https://nypost.com/2021/07/22/kentaro-kobayashi-fired-as-2020-olympic-opening-ceremony-director-for-holocaust-joke/
Outrage, not only about this, but about so many things, seems so arbitrarily directed; so hit or miss.
Sarah Silverman has joked about the Holocaust.
https://forward.com/schmooze/414359/sarah-silverman-schools-nazi-prom-boys-on-how-to-make-a-good-holocaust/
Seinfeld had an episode about Jerry making out with his girlfriend in the theater during Schindler's List.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYoIOYPU5WA
In 1966, Mad magazine did a parody of Hogan's Heroes called Hochman's Heroes, set in a concentration camp.
http://hofbrau.freeservers.com/hochman1.htm
Seems like “cancel culture” has invaded japan too.
What a cluster.
All involved are gonna lose their shirts.
Betcha the games get cancelled and CoupFlu blamed in order to try to have insurance cover some of the losses.
Fake Olympics.
Being canned for the past is a No-Win Scenario.
Kubayashi found that out!
Kobayashi Maru!
Kobayashi: The No-Win Scenario
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru
Not even Mel Brooks jokes about the holocaust. I can’t IMAGINE anyone doing such a thing. But a lot can happen to a soul in 30 years.
If he said “Let’s Play Unit 731”, or “Let’s Play Rape of Nanking” that would have been perfectly ok.
You’re Quick on the Draw! LOL.
Think about which country, which has a lot of control over our media, would love to stick it to Japan at every turn.
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