Japanese and Koreans invaded Asia. We apologize.

雑 

2011年08月02日 11時52分07秒 | Weblog
九電、プルサーマル説明会でも賛意表明要請 社員らに

議論では賛否両論あるのが好ましい。
中立的機関が、賛成派、反対派の両派に配慮するのもおかしなことではない。

当時の電力会社が推進側にまわるのは当然であり、今回の場合、推進側が推進側の団体に所属することを隠していたかのような形になったのがまずい。
それ以上に、この”やらせ”問題を膨らませても、エネルギー政策問題という重要問題から離れていってしまう。

毎日社説
社説:危険な原発から廃炉に 核燃サイクル幕引きを


社説:原発から再生エネルギーへ 論説委員長 冠木雅夫

今回は原子力政策。リスクの高い原発から徐々に停止し廃炉にすること、定期検査で停止中のものは電力不足を防ぐため限定的に再稼働を考慮するが、厳格な安全評価が前提であること、核燃料サイクルの幕引きなどを提案している。

 2回目は代替エネルギーについて。節電を進めつつ当面は天然ガスや石炭による火力発電を増やすこと、将来は太陽光、風力、地熱などの再生可能エネルギーを飛躍的に増やしコストを下げていく道筋を示す。

 3回目は電力体制について。再生可能エネルギー活用に向け地産地消的な分散型の電力供給に転換すること、電力体制を見直し送電網を開放していくことを提言する。


これはこれで具体的提言があるのは評価する。



アルジャ

The biggest threat to Western values
Multiculturalism does not pose a significant danger to Western values - but neoliberalism does.
Tarak Barkawi Last Modified: 27 Jul 2011

多文化主義よりもネオリベのほうが西洋にとって脅威。


This was one of the questions that animated the Frankfurt School and those who influenced it. They focused on the interaction between capitalism and culture. They noted the ways in which capitalism progressively turned everything into something that could be bought or sold, measuring value only by the bottom line

資本主義社会では、すべてが売り買いの対象となり、


Money and "efficiency" are the values by which we stand, not law, truth or health. Students are imagined as "customers", citizens as "stakeholders". Professional associations worry about the risk to their bottom line rather than furthering the values they exist to represent. Graduates of elite Western universities, imbued with the learning of our great thinkers, are sent off to corporations like News International. There they learn to shut up, obey, and collaborate in the dark work of exploitation for profit, for which they will be well rewarded, at least financially speaking.

お金と効率だけが、重視され、法律も、真実も健康も軽視される。生徒は顧客であり、市民は利害関係者。大学を卒業すると、企業のいいなりになって、利益のために搾取に協力する、と。



Neoliberalism has only accelerated these processes at the heart of capitalist society. Here is a far more convincing threat to Western values and "social cohesion" than the lunatic fears of fascists.


ネオリベは資本主義の社会で、この過程を加速したが、こちらの方が、西洋の価値や社会的団結にとって脅威であろう、と

ーーーわりに典型的なネオリベ批判でしょうね。

 資本主義になって、地域社会の鎖につながれた身分から自由になって、人は、資本家に都合のいい商品になった。身分・地域から、捨象されたこの商品はリベラルが勘違いする社会・歴史から超脱した”個人”でもある。

一長一短で、身分・地域から解放されて自由になった分、社会はバラバラの個人の集合の様相を呈してきた。
それじゃあ、その個人のつながりをどこに求めていくか、というのが現代社会の問題でもある。

 上野氏は家族はとっくの昔に崩壊している、と言っていたが、そうとも限らない。家族制度を否定する進歩的思想はかつてもあったし、また、機能不全になった家族のケースがあるのは確かだが、しかし、人類始まって以来家族というのは、やはり、人と人の繫がりの基本的単位になるのは変わらないだろう。


問題はそれ以外の繫がり・縁である。よく知らないがオタク同士が自発的に形成するコミニティなんか、わりに手本になるかもしれないし、、あるいは女縁もいいだろうが、とにかく、そうした繫がりがもてる何らかの活動形態は今後の課題ではあろう。他方、繫がりを失った人々が、過激な排外的団体で繫がりを見いだすこともある。これにも警戒しなくてはならない。

 で、まあ、もう一つこうした左派系統の論者がなぜ、こうもネオリベを目の敵にするのかはよくわからない。
 共通の敵というのがあって、左派でも官民癒着して暴利をあさる構造、ネオリベからすれば、競争を阻害する政官業の癒着、こうしたものは両者ともにとって敵であろう。ネオリベなどからしてみれば計画経済のほうがよほど政官業の癒着を深めて、結果的に庶民のためにもならない。左派がネオリベに懸念するのは弱者切り捨てになってしまうことであろうが、これに関して、例えば、福祉を私的な 寄付だけにしろ、とまでいうネオリベ論者は少なくとも日本では見かけない。


同じくアルジャ

Norway: Muslims and metaphors
After the Norway attacks, as after many others, Muslims were the first to be blamed.
Hamid Dabashi Last Modified: 31 Jul 2011


イスラム教徒とメタファー


・・・・・
white masculinist -
・・・・・

Look at just one of these bestselling authors - this person called Dinesh D'Souza. Look at the title of some of his books: What's So Great About Christianity; What's So Great About America; Ronald Reagan: How An Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader; Life After Death: The Evidence. The man has one simple idea: America and Christianity are the greatest things that ever happened to humanity - and everything else - the Left and Islam in particular - are the darkest evils that ever were, categorically condemned to hell unless like him they see the light, join his church, and be saved.

He is a Christian fundamentalist warmonger who hates gays, hates Muslims, hates feminists, hates the Left, he in fact hates anything and everything that is non-Christians, as he understands Christianity, but he loves an abstraction he calls "America", which to him is a white America - but, and there is the rub, he is not white. What sort of a mental case is that? The man is a dark-skin Indian. But he sees himself as a white warrior of Greek mythology in Zach Snyder's movie. Muslims and the Left, gays and blacks, feminists and multiculturalists - these are the creatures he sees in front of him, his nightmares. But he is not alone. He is a New York Times "bestseller", as they say.


というより、アメリカについてのレトリックといったかんじ。




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Iranian acid attack victim pardons culprit
Woman blinded by former classmate forgives him, thereby sparing him of retributive blinding by state eye specialist.
Last Modified: 31



硫酸を引っかけられて盲目になった女性。イスラム圏では眼には眼を、で犯人の眼をつぶす権利があるのだが、それを放棄した、と。
美談にもならない。あまりにも残酷で、彼女の心中を思うと暗鬱になる。


NYT

My Very Own Captain America
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: July 29, 2011


・・・・・
But as I watched the scenes of a fictitious integrated American Army fighting in Europe at the end of World War II, I became unsettled. Yes, I know that racial revisionism has become so common in film that it’s almost customary, so much so that moviegoers rarely balk or even blink. And even I try not to think too deeply about shallow fare. Escapism by its nature must bend away from reality. But this time I was forced to bend it back. It was personal.

The only black fighting forces on the ground in Europe during World War II were segregated, including the 92nd Infantry Division: The now famous “Buffalo Soldiers.” My grandfather, Fred D. Rhodes, was one of those soldiers.

・・・・・
For one, as the historian Daniel K. Gibran has documented, the soldiers were placed under the command of a known racist who questioned their “moral attitude toward battle,” “mental toughness” and “trustworthiness,” and who remained a military segregationist until the day he died. In 1959, the commander commented in a study: “It is absurd to contend that the characteristics demonstrated by the Negroes” will not “undermine and deteriorate the white army unit into which the Negro is integrated.”

Yet they did show great toughness and character, including my grandfather. This is how his 1944 Silver Star citation recounts his bravery:
・・・・・


映画キャプテンアメリカで”白人”と”黒人”がいっしょに戦っているのはおかしい。実際には白黒分かれて、”白人”人種差別主義者の上官のもと、勇敢に戦ったのだ、と。

ーーー日本の戦争映画でも、朝鮮人が立派に帝国陸軍のために戦ったことを描写すべきか?


もっとも、

question of the day: Does ‘Captain America’ blackwash history?


フィクションなんだから、うるさいこと言うな、という人も。





Woman Refuses Home After Vandals Spray 'KKK' On It




WSB-TV
Posted: 4:58 pm EDT July 31, 2011
Updated: 5:14 pm EDT July 31, 2011

BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. -- A Bartow County woman says she's afraid to move into a home after vandals left a racist message on the house in more than one spot.
The woman said she was in the process of buying the home, but someone painted the letters KKK on the garage door and the back of the house.
Now, Kristy Spivey is saying she's afraid to live in the home.
"This is 2011! People are still doing this?" Spivey said. "I feel like I am a victim of a hate crime because it wasn't targeted toward any other house but this one."
Spivey’s mother, Rosa Spivey, said, "I thought it was so awful for somebody to do something like this to a young person trying to make it in life."


引っ越そうとおもった家にKKKの落書きがあって、引っ越すのをやめようと思っている、と。
(外国人お断り、不動産差別)




Racism in Oz: Aus radio host calls India '
shit hole', Ganga a 'junkyard'


Source: PTI | Last Updated 15:5

オーストラリア ラジオホストが、インドのことを便器、ガンジス川はゴミ箱といって非難されている。


We just won't cop it, say Melton police
CRIME
2 AUG 11 @ 08:00AM BY LIAM MCALEER




AN African-Australian refugee advocacy group says Victoria Police’s response to reports of racist gangs operating in Melton is ``completely unacceptable’‘.

Dr Berhan Ahmed from Footscray-based group African Think Tank said it was “completely wrong to say that there is not a particular issue’‘.

Police have again played down fears, saying there is no evidence or reports made to suggest racist gangs are attacking the town’s African population.

The concerns were raised after a report, Bridging the Gap, was commissioned by Melton state Labor MP Don Nardella.

The report claimed that two anti-black youth gangs were operating in Melton.

Police say one of the groups mentioned has been shut down and believe the other is not operating.

They also say online pictures and videos of the gangs are quite old, and some of the people pictured have already been dealt with by police.


アフリカ系オーストラリア人が人種差別的なチンピラにつけねらわれるので、警察に助けをもとめたが、そんなギャングはもういない、ととりあってくれなかった、と。



Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011

HAVE YOUR SAY
World needs lessons in dealing with difference; Japan needs an education in attracting students


Ignorance is widespread

If you have traveled extensively, Mr. McLellan, you might have noticed that Japan is not the only country where adults say such things. If fact, you're likely to encounter the same in other ethnically homogenous countries in the rest of Asia.

And even in Western countries like Australia ― where I was born and currently live ― as an Asian person I constantly get, "Your English is very good!" or "You seem kind of Australian, not like the other foreigners" from probably well-meaning people of all demographics. After telling them I was born and bred and educated in a private school, they seem to be able to find a justification for my out-of-place, unexpected English proficiency. Then they will pursue some other questioning of Asian stereotypes, e.g. why we like to gamble so much.

I am not the only Asian person who experiences this. It's as widespread as our cane toad plague.

So if you think Japan is culturally challenged, look again and you'll find that so is the rest of the world ― that is, if you cared to look.

SANDY WANG


オーストラリアでも、アジア系は、そこで、生まれ育っても、「英語上手いね、他の外人とはちゃうね」などと言われる、と。

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