CMで安易な「おかまネタ」「おねえネタ」をオチにすることは、社会にすでにずいぶん浸透しているゲイ差別やトランスジェンダー差別の再生産になるのではないかと思います。そういったことが「笑ってもいい」「バカにしてもいい」「それが人にさげすまれるのは当然だ」という意識に根ざしているからです。
残念ながら社会がそういう意識であれば、多くの人が自分のことを正直に話せない。カミングアウトできない。だから、こうしたCMは、カミングアウトできないゲイの人ほど、見ていて傷つくことだろうと思いました。
諸外国のCMのように、LGBTはとにかくポジティブ！素晴らしい！なんていうCMは今の日本には似合わないし受けいれられないとは思います。しかし、情報発信の最先端である広告業界であれば、「この演出は、知らないところで誰かを傷つけるかもしれない」ということを敏感に察知してもらいたかったと思います
CNN - タイムライン via kwout
Recent comments by President-elect Donald Trump and his team over Taiwan have angered China, and bring new friction to the region that could draw Japan into a conflict to support its ally in Washington.
Kuehn said Japan's Self-Defense Forces need to be careful not to "overreach" and move away from the strength they have developed protecting the home islands.
"The Japanese have figured out how to do business in Asia without controlling the real estate," which is what Japanese militarists tried and failed at in World War II, Kuehn said.
Japan can take the best work of other countries and refine it to be even better.
According to the BAFTA-winning journalist and filmmaker, mainstream media reports of Beijing’s ambitious expansion and reclaiming of land in the South China Sea is in fact a response to US military activity around its borders.
The Simple Reasons Why the South China Sea is Headed for Tragic Troubles | The National Interest Blog via kwout
America’s strategy in the South China Sea is much more narrowly focussed. In periodic Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPS), US Navy ships sail close to China’s new reclaimed islands. However, it’s hard to see that achieves anything long-lasting. At some time China may play hardball and try to deny access, probably using fishing vessels and its new large Coast Guard ships. The US wants its allies to join in those FONOPS, causing some political ructions in Australia about timing and whether sailing too close might escalate tensions. But the real issue is that such operations are ultimately meaningless in terms of helping create a better future world.
The main problem is that China holds the strategic initiative. At great cost, China has built six large islands in the South China Sea: three are substantial airbases and three host sizeable electronic surveillance installations. The scale of those new facilities is such that China can deploy an air combat force larger and more capable than any current ASEAN air force (with the possible exception of Singapore) off northern Borneo when it wishes. Given that, China can now easily enforce an Air Defense Identification Zone across the South China Sea when the time is deemed right. Most worryingly, for the first time China poses a realistic air threat to Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and all of Borneo. China today militarily dominates the central ASEAN region thanks to those new airbases, and has effectively relocated itself to the geographic heart of ASEAN.
それならば米国はロシアと手を組むべきだ、というのがトランプ氏の理論だろう。しかしこのやり方ではISやその他のテロ組織を壊滅させるのと引き換えに、米国はアサド政権の存続を認めさせられる可能性もある。
仮にプーチン氏と手を組んでISなどを壊滅させたとしても、これら組織を生んだ地域の土壌を改善しなければ問題は解決されない。その点を考慮しても、ロシアと手を組みアサド政権を存続させる方法は逆効果だと言える。
米国がアサド政権の存続を認め、その見返りにアサド氏による市民の殺害をプーチン氏が止めさせ、結果的にシリアでの争乱が治まるという構図は想像できる。しかし問題なのは、その対価だ。プーチン氏やアサド氏が約束事を守るという保証はどこにもない。
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一方、トランプ次期大統領も談話を出し、「不名誉な記憶として残る７５年前に、真珠湾で犠牲となった米国人の英雄に思いをはせる」と述べるとともに、「米国の敵は７５年間で変わったが、平和の追求には、勝利に代わるものはない」と訴えた。安倍首相の真珠湾訪問や日米同盟については言及しなかった。
クリスマスの日、老人とホームレスには無料でお食事いただけます。
クリスマス、一人で食事なんて寂しすぎます。
Daily Mail readers loved that viral Christmas advert - until they realised it was about Polish immigration | indy100 via kwout
Didn't read the article. Is he trying to get the child to send him UK benefits?
-kenpark
If that poor grandfather would only know that he is absolutely not welcomed in here. If open-hearted Poles watching this add back home would only know how much English hate and disdain Poles on daily basis...
-Jas Fasola
What about the British people suffering because they cannot afford to pay for Christmas because poles are taking our jobs!
- Robin Crime Fighter
Go home Polish people. You don't need this abuse. You're clearly hated in U.K. There's a decent life back there, why are you doing this to yourself?
-Mia
And his next sentence would be 'where do I claim my benefits?'
Mr Trump’s election on an anti-immigrant platform coincides with one of the final phases of the decline predicted in the social scientist’s 2009 book The Fall of the American Empire—and then What? where he forecast the rise of facism before the country's power receded.
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The sociologist identified unsustainable economic, social, military and political contradictions that would eventually topple the U.S. as a world power.
“The collapse has two faces,” Galtung said. “Other countries refuse to be ‘good allies: and the USA has to do the killing themselves, by bombing from high altitudes, drones steered by computer from an office, Special Forces killing all over the place.
Rising tensions between America’s Judeo-Christian majority and Islam and other religious minorities created cultural contradictions, which are further sharpened by social contradictions between the so-called American dream and the reality that fewer Americans can achieve prosperity through hard work.
By “end of American world order,” I specifically refer to the crisis and erosion of the international order that the United States had built and maintained after World War II, which some call the liberal hegemonic order, meaning a liberal order under U.S. dominance
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