Hiroko Tabuchiの慰安婦は性奴隷

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@HirokoTabuchi Morality usually springs from the magnanimity of the strong. Weakness breeds amorality.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@BennSteil @HirokoTabuchi Actually I don't think so...I got that idea from N-dawg originally.

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

@Noahpinion @BennSteil But who are the weak here, ultimately? Shall we not forget the women at the receiving end of sexual violence?

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@BennSteil @HirokoTabuchi Sure. He says weak people try to restrain strong rivals with morality.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@BennSteil @HirokoTabuchi But I'm talking about admitting you did something bad to someone else...

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

So encouraged to see this RT'd 1000+ times, calling out the revisionist backlash in Japan twitter.com/miyamototooru/…

宮本徹 @miyamototooru

報道ステーション、日本軍慰安婦問題でまっとうな報道。吉田証言が虚偽でも、強制性があったとする河野談話が正当であること、クマラスワミ報告も慰安婦本人から聞き取りをしており、吉田証言が虚偽でも揺らがないことを丁寧に報道。他メディアも頑張れ pic.twitter.com/Kl82lFLrBT

2014-09-11 22:48:54

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

@Noahpinion @BennSteil For a moment there I thought you were casting the deniers as society's weak/losers

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@HirokoTabuchi I am. For a nationalist, having your country beaten and permanently occupied is the ultimate weakness.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@HirokoTabuchi The Japanese nationalists feel weak, so they punch down on the only people weaker than they are - women, liberals, etc.

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

@Noahpinion That's where there's a big divide in Japanese thought, tho. For nationalists, that defeated military regime = Japan.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@HirokoTabuchi Yes.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@HirokoTabuchi But not just for them. Very few people see regimes as separate from the people under them, unless the people rebel.

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

@Noahpinion For pacifists, no -- that's not what Japan stands for. It was led astray by that regime, which brought it destruction & dishonor

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

@Noahpinion I think both sides would claim they are the true patriots.

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

@Noahpinion Ive also started to realize many nationalists do argue their points out of conviction, believe authority/honor rests w/the state

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

@Noahpinion I know sounds obvious, but that thinking so alien to me I often assumed malicious intent. But no, there is so much conviction.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@HirokoTabuchi Yes, of course. Being something of a nationalist myself, I feel it too.

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

@Noahpinion So I've been trying to be a bit more tolerant on FB & Twitter twd my nationalist friends :)

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

@Noahpinion & such different dynamics/ideological divides in USA w/ right suspicious of govt, progressives oft nationalistic. So interesting

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@HirokoTabuchi Some of it comes from America's racial divide. Some conservatives see govt. as champion of minorities against majority.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@HirokoTabuchi But some of it comes from victory in wars. Nobody conquered us, so we have "room" to feel guilty about conquering others.

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

@Noahpinion which I guess the Japanese govt is not!

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@HirokoTabuchi Not yet.

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

@Noahpinion um, i don't see guilt in the USA abt conquering/invading others. not really.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@HirokoTabuchi But remember, collectivism cuts both ways. If "Japan" didn't lose WW2, why should "Japan" now apologize for it?