Comments on: Lifestyles of the Japanese (2011 version): part 2 of 3 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2012/02/08/lifestyles-of-the-japanese-2011-version-part-2-of-3/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: Usman Makhdoom http://whatjapanthinks.com/2012/02/08/lifestyles-of-the-japanese-2011-version-part-2-of-3/comment-page-1/#comment-249816 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:34:36 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4718#comment-249816 The feeling of pessimism is certainly justifiable – even mainstream – but to reference Kevin Maher, of all people?

What he said about Okinawans was cowardly, how he tried to hide it was cowardly, how he admitted it was cowardly, how he attacked the students who revealed his nasty racist vitriol was cowardly. But most cowardly of all is his backtracking now and association with the nasty right-wing thinktank Freedom House.

Kevin Maher is a truly ugly, vitriolic person. You’ve a lot to choose from as far as foreigners who are pessimistic go; to choose Maher is astoundingly bad judgment.

Then again, being as you have justified North Korea’s kidnapping of Japanese children and women before, perhaps it isn’t all so surprising, after all. I suspect you’ve got a vein of neocon running there – shame.

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