Why is a joke in 1998 about the murder of 6 million Jews enough to destroy a person's career, but 100 years of joking about, and actual persecution of, middle class people is de rigueur in spite of the murder of 100 million of them in the 20th century? ...
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games has been plunged into turmoil after the show director was fired over a joke he made about the Holocaust.
Kentaro Kobayashi, who was partly in charge of the curtain-raiser, was dismissed after facing anti-Semitism allegations over a comment he made in a comedy act in 1998 resurfaced.
According to multiple Japanese newspaper reports, Kobayashi made light of the mass murder of six million Jews by saying, “Let’s play Holocaust”.
And while we're playing holocaust, why is Greta and the Green Blob allowed to continue murdering 600,000 black Africans every year in central and sub-Saharan Africa by denying them a coal powered electricity grid (which forces them to cook in their homes with open wood stoves, inhale the fumes at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and die at the rate of 600,000 excess deaths a year from lung disease)?
So in summary: The Left Axis of BLM, Antifa, Climate Alarmists, Dems and Labour destroys a person's career for joking about the holocaust, while at the same time ignores its own 16x greater prior holocaust and perpetrates another holocaust against black people in plain view today.
That joke wins this round of "Let's play Holocaust!", methinks.
SoD
The response to the Holocaust was "Never Again". The 'intellectuals' response to 100 million dead via Communism and its attendant ideas is "we'll be back". The response to hundreds of thousands of dead black Africans is and has always been 'business as usual'.
Intellectuals don't perform well at 'room temperature'. There must be a crisis or at least one orchestrated for them to enlighten us.
Posted by: Whitewall | Thursday, 22 July 2021 at 14:02
Back to the tired old saw that socialism = communism = Stalinism, eh? You can just never repeat that enough to prove anyone who can be accused of belonging to the "left axis" is a killer. It's like a Harry Potter magical spell.
There are many reasons your obsession with sub-Saharan cooking is nonsense. Alternatives to wood such as alcohol are available for just one. In many cities Chinese and others live in a constant, health degrading smog of coal smoke. The byproducts of burning coal are also highly toxic and often end up in water supplies.
Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, neither members of the left axis, made $billions by addicting Americans to opioids. "In 2019, an average of 38 people died each day from overdoses involving prescription opioids, totaling more than 14,000 deaths."
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/prescription/maps.html
Before you claim the victims did it to themselves, read up on the contributing events and lawsuits against the white collar drug dealers.
Manufacturing industries externalizing costs over more than 200 years have poisoned air, water, and land and racked up enormous death tolls due to cancer and other causes all around the world.
Posted by: Bob | Thursday, 22 July 2021 at 15:47
The vaunted FDA though Bob, did "officially approve" those pharmaceuticals eh?
None of those 'Emergency Use Authorizations' nor 'Exemptions From Liability' either.
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 22 July 2021 at 16:30
A further "new development" Bob in that case we been going on about.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2021/07/21/records-fbi-agent-assaulted-wife-swingers-party-gretchen-whitmer-terror-plot/8041014002/
"She ultimately grabbed Trask's testicles, which ended the altercation, the document notes, and Trask left the Oshtemo Township home in her vehicle."
(And no the 'she' being referenced here is not Governor Whitmer.)
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 22 July 2021 at 16:57
The Royal Navy, our Navy:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/america-s-newest-carrier-is-a-fiasco-the-navy-just-admitted-why/ar-AAMrh7t?li=BBorjTa
Posted by: Whitewall | Thursday, 22 July 2021 at 19:40
Somebody seems to be reading my mail.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/07/pentagon-reportedly-tracking-web-searches-including-phrase-the-truth-about-black-lives-matter/
So now it's not just the Post Office mebbe?
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 22 July 2021 at 19:59
JK,
The guy's probably not as big a freak as J. Edgar Hoover.
Posted by: Bob | Friday, 23 July 2021 at 13:40
Not to mention DDT which was well on way to fixing the mosquito / malaria problem. Killing half a million humans a year, 66% of them children under five. Banned because it was suspected of causing thinning of bald eagle egg shells.
Those same eagles shredded by world saving wind turbines.
Look! A squirrel.
Posted by: Doonhamer | Tuesday, 27 July 2021 at 22:54