The Most Hilarious Comment I’ve Received to Date

…from the PC Police, mind you, regarding the most controversial post I have ever written in my 4 years of blogging (no kidding!). I got into big trouble today. From one who is in denial that Anti-Americanism even exists, told me today that I was stereotyping the Americanophobes or so to put it in his words,

You talk about nation-states as if they were singular entities with personalities and traits. ‘Japanese’ do this, ‘Americans’ are like this, all the ‘anti-Americans’ say this. You even talk about anti-Americanism as an object that does things

“But this is what Anti-Americanism is all about. It’s mindless bigotry. It doesn’t listen.”

Anti-Americanism is an it?

Perhaps you should think a bit more critically about your own black and white thinking before accusing others ‘out there’ of it.

This comment followed his initial comment to me which was this:

あんたアホちゃう？

In English this means, “Are you a dumbass”?

I laid out how I interpret Americanophobia over here. Admittedly, there is controversy and heavy mud slinging, hair-pulling, killing of first born children, and nail-biting debates over what the ambiguous term Anti-Americanism actually is. And depending on the person, Anti-Americanism (aka Americanophobia) is something different. The word is just as ambiguous and controversial as the term, “patriotism”. This is more the reason that I must go out of my way to define it (along with other often used terms in my blog including what is patriotism) how I experience it so as to avoid confusion. Nonetheless, despite all my efforts to LINK the “offensive” and “politically incorrect” word to my glossary at every mention of it, people are still confused. Either that or they’re too LAZY to click on my link to these words defined.

It is also interesting how this person finds the concept of Americanophobia to *not* be an noun or a mindset. I wonder if the terms bigotry, prejudice, xenophobia, or racism are also not an “it”. The last time I checked, the proper pronoun for a mindset is an “it” and for a person is a “him or her”. I sure hope that Mr. Nippon Blogger is not teaching English in Japan because this could be very dangerous. (I could understand typos, but pronoun usage???) Maybe he’s an American?

This knee-jerk commenter reminds me of how important I find the following quote that I highlighted in this post, “The Audacity to Respond”:

“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.” –Winston Churchill

Because trust me, the Westboro Baptist Church gets all defensive when they are called out. So do white supremacists, anti-Semites, those who use the words nigger, spics, beaners, gooks, limeys, ginnies and the like. These people all go out of their way to silence dissent and create lame excuses for their crooked beliefs. Then there are some bigots who deny that bigotry even exits (especially if they’re guilty of it themselves). Then, some people are just pollyannas and like to think that hate doesn’t exist. Then some people defend hate and knock those who react to it. If you think about it, nobody likes their mission to be criticized.

Suffice it to say, this doorknob has a blog, and he defines as his…

Views and Commentary on Politics, Culture, and Environment in Japan

And in his carefully written and balanced blog, he stereotypes the Japanese. You can find one example here.

For those who don’t know samba, most of the outfits are quite skimpy and t-back bottoms are the norm. Also, for those who don’t know–Japan is quite famous for chikan, and for odd-varieties of chikan. Anyway, the whole thing was almost too much to take. Some of these lecherous folks had arrived at the wee hours of the morning to secure a good spot for their ass hunting. What surprised me most was that there were quite a few older women getting in on the action too (apparently they sell the photos to websites and magazines–yuck).

These perverts were totally unabashed in their quest for bum shots. Good god all mighty.

Hypocrisy at its finest, might I say? For those that don’t know the word, “chikan”, in Japanese, it is basically those men who grope and touch women where they shouldn’t be touching women. They are mostly found inside crowded trains in Japan. When I was living in Japan, I called them “touch men” as a joke. But for someone who calls me out as seeing the world with a “black and white” view, I found his post about Samba to be quite the ironic.

See, we Americans are already defined as being overly-simplistic in our views of the world, so I take much pleasure in pointing out where the Americanophobes are being overly-simplistic. It’s as simple as that.

But I did feel guilty because “Nippon Blogger” was correct on one of the points that he made. As I’ve mentioned in my disclaimer/comment policy and in my “about me” section, I claim to fight against stereotypes and bigotry expressed publicly, and here I am demeaning and harassing the Americanophobes as well as other groups. What a hypocrite I am!!

With that said, I owe an apology to several groups of people for my having offended the Americanophobic population and stereotyping them. Shame on me. I would also like to take this golden opportunity to also apologize to the Westboro Baptist Church, the KKK, the homophobics, the extreme right wingers, and Christian and Islamic fundamentalists whom I have also labels as “bad” in my blog. I’m really sorry. I’m sure you guys really do mean well.

For those unaware of the Westboro Baptist Church or Godhatesfags.com, here’s a brief introduction:

WBC engages in daily peaceful sidewalk demonstrations opposing the homosexual lifestyle of soul-damning, nation-destroying filth. We display large, colorful signs containing Bible words and sentiments, including: GOD HATES FAGS, FAGS HATE GOD, AIDS CURES FAGS, THANK GOD FOR AIDS, FAGS BURN IN HELL, GOD IS NOT MOCKED, FAGS ARE NATURE FREAKS, GOD GAVE FAGS UP, NO SPECIAL LAWS FOR FAGS, FAGS DOOM NATIONS, THANK GOD FOR DEAD SOLDIERS, FAG TROOPS, GOD BLEW UP THE TROOPS, GOD HATES AMERICA, AMERICA IS DOOMED, THE WORLD IS DOOMED, etc.

If it weren’t for the righteous and all-things-moral “Nippon Blogger”, I would have never realized the simple-minded racist I really am.

I am most grateful for him to have taken his time to give me a heads up on my current status of morality or lack of.

But wait a minute! Anti-Americanism hasn’t been officially defined, you say? Or has it? I perused the internet to see what some of the online dictionaries had to say about it (despite over hundreds of articles and thousands of books I have listed to show that Anti-Americanism is *NOT* about being critical of US policies). At least that is, once again, the way I (and most people) see it. Here’s what I have found so far that is actually defined in an online dictionary.

From free-dictionary.com

My blog is about the sheeple who blindly attack the American people. I don’t know what is so very hard to understand about this.

Most of you whom are familiar with my blog have seen my “politically incorrect” definition of the word, “Anti-Americanism”. There is a video underneath my definition that explains it much better. I will paste it here for those that skipped over it.

And finally, you can read my full response to the real dumbass here.

Once again, please accept my heartfelt apology for lumping the Americanophobes in with the Americanophobes.

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