At 12:22 97/11/14 -0700, Tim May wrote:
I'm actually delighted the Joichi Ito has, on the basis of my humor, denounced me as a racist. As a member of a "mongrelized society," as one prominent Japanese put it a while back (and not back in the 1940s...it was the 1980s), I am always happy to be called a racist by someone from one of the most racially homogeneous nations on earth, a nation which of course did not allow any "boat people" to settle in their nation, all the while denouncing the U.S. for letting only several hundred thousand boat people in.
I'm not going to defend Japan on this one. Japan is a rascist society. Does that make it OK for you to be one too?
The history of our "Nobuki Nakatuji" <bd1011@hotmail.com> is apparently unknown to Joichi Ito, else he would not have been so quick to brand me a racist for my humor.
I'm sorry, but a racial remark is a racial remark. I never said it wasn't funny and I never said this guy didn't deserve it. But what you said was racist, no doubt about it, and even if they are funny, I personally think that racial jokes are stupid and cheap. On and by the way, I actually didn't think your message was very funny, and I don't see how you can argue that I shouldn't brand you a rascist just because you thought you were funny and the guy deserved it. - Joi -- PGP Key: http://pgp.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2D9461F1 PGP Fingerprint: 58F3 CA9A EFB8 EB9D DF18 6B16 E48D AF2A 2D94 61F1 Home Page: http://domino.garage.co.jp/jito/joihome.nsf To subscribe to my personal mailing list send mailto:friends-subscribe@ji.to