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[–]wylanderuk 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Heh the response from the Japanese consulate was probably the politest "WTF is wrong with you fucking idiots?" I have ever seen.

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

of course their spaghetti logic shifted to go "Asians in their home countries have no say in this! this is for Asian-Americans to condemn!"; when the Asian-American backers of the exhibit said they weren't offended (and more to the point that nobody wearing a kimono sent them to Manzanar when they were tots) they said only "properly educated" Asian-Americans could determine whether they were witches offensive (further raising the point that if you have to take 6 semesters of an undergraduate course to even tell if something's offensive, is it actually inherently offensive?)

also not a single one of the protesters was Japanese-American, they were Filipino and like a Dominican