The Politically Incorrect Earthquake (Are All Cultures Really Equal?)

Youth for Western Civilization ^ | March 23, 2011 | William L. Houston

[Chi-townChief]

"Buildings sway in Tokyo, the Japanese capital, which unlike Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, the U.S. Air Force burnt to the ground in 1945."

Oh yeah - apropos of nothing, we just went over there and burned down Tokyo. What a bunch of crap!

[mlocher]

in the months that followed the American media gradually lost interest in reporting on the story.

That is because Obama took the lead and insisted some gov't agency other than the military step in and provide immediate help. This is more COA -- Cover Obama's [rear].

[Seaplaner]

Yes, that like ruins (and conflicts with) an otherwise fine article.

[Seaplaner]

"like" should have read "line".

Sheesh!

[rlmorel]

I don't have a problem with that wording. We did indeed do it. It was the right thing to do at the time, no apologies.

My dad was the perennial Memorial Day speaker in my hometown, and in 1995 he made the papers after his speech, shown here:

It was the year of the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, and my dad got up there and said it was the right thing to do. Completely unapologetic, matter of fact. Up here in liberal Massachusetts, that non-PC talk is akin to heresy. Didn't faze him at all.

The newspaper headline said something like "WWII Veteran Advocates Use of Nuclear Weapons on Japanese".

[coloradan]

Whether we burnt it down for an excellent reason or for a despicable reason (n.b. I lean towards the former) the fact is, we burnt it to the ground. Not only did they rebuild it, they still have the wherewithal to survive this disaster that was 100x worse than the one in Haiti. By getting caught believing that the author is questioning the wisdom of bombing Tokyo, you’re potentially missing the entire point of the comparison between Haiti and Japan, which is a pity because he makes an absolutely excellent point, and he makes it well.

[mountn man]

US Air Force was established until 1947.

[mountn man]

was=wasn’t

[spodefly]

Astoundingly politically incorrect. Sure to offend and cause fainting spells among the multicult zombies.

And totally spot on accurate, and exactly true.

[rlmorel]

I agree. I don’t think he was making a negative point about the AAF...it didn’t hit me that way, but I can see in some way how someone might get that impression.

[Inyo-Mono]

"Buildings sway in Tokyo, the Japanese capital, which unlike Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, the U.S. Air Force burnt to the ground in 1945."

Oh yeah - apropos of nothing, we just went over there and burned down Tokyo. What a bunch of crap!

At least he could have tried to get it right; U.S. Army Air Corps, not Air Force.

[Mr. Mojo]

a "human rights activist" and "Malcolm X scholar" named Amanda Kijera, who in "solidarity" with the oppressed went to Haiti to disprove exaggerated Western stereotypes of violence against women, and after suffering the misfortune of being raped all night on a rooftop by one of her Haitian hosts, returned home "grateful for the experience."

I'd never heard of this multicult fool Kijera until tonight, but Google turned this up: http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?178510-Liberal-Activist-Goes-to-Haiti-Gets-Raped-Blames-White-Men

A perfect window into the mindset of the self-loathing leftist.

[Mr. Mojo]

With the UN on the ground, Haitian women are being sexually exploited by gang leaders.

By UN gang leaders as well, if history is any indication.

[spodefly]

By getting caught believing that the author is questioning the wisdom of bombing Tokyo, you’re potentially missing the entire point of the comparison between Haiti and Japan, which is a pity because he makes an absolutely excellent point, and he makes it well.

Never underestimate the Freeper capacity to nit pick while totally missing the point.

[Walts Ice Pick]

I hope you won't view it as an attempt to "pull rank" on you or anything, but I'm guessing you're much younger than I am. I say that only because you don't seem to have been exposed to the common American view of Japanese culture that permeated the United States in the decades during and immediately following World War II. During those years, we were given first person testimony by witnesses and victims (including American war veterans) of acts of nearly unimaginable cruelty and barbarism perpetrated by persons who were raised in Japan and immersed in Japanese culture.

I'm not here to say that the Japanese are much different than anyone else, but maybe that's all I'm saying - the Japanese are not much different than anyone else. There wasn't anything about Japanese culture that prevented the Japs from beheading American POW's, forcing them to eat maggots, or literally working them to death. And, there wasn't anything about Japanese culture that prevented the Japs from burying civilians alive in order to terrorize what they thought were inferior peoples and cultures. The Japs would have readily agreed with you that not all cultures were "equal" to theirs.

But, I'm not so sure that the Japs are all that special.

[Last Dakotan]

[Wuli]

I am not sure the MAJORITY of Japanese people of today, even those old enough to personally remember WWII subscribe to the Japanese “culture” (values, principals, social norms, etc.) that permitted and approved of the Japanese military abuses of a previous era.

[SpaceBar]

Gee, that’s relevant to the topic. /s

[SoldierDad]

Having read through the thread, I know that this was already pointed out to you, but, I’ll add my 2 cents worth anyway. You totally and completely misread the author’s intent of his words. He was attempting to compare the difference between the two cities hard hit by large earthquakes - the Japanese, after suffering significant damage to Tokyo (not to mention Hiroshima and Nagasaki), managed to rebuild. Whereas, despite all the foreign aid that has poored into Haiti, nothing!! I’m at a loss for how some on FR manage to fail to see the forest because of the trees.