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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_Came_on_Horseback

surrael: very good tale of military guy who had to confront his training to follow orders, and instead leak documents, to get anyone to notice the genocide in darfur
surrael: maybe similar: devil's bargain shown by SBS in the time slot before
surrael: second link has some other stuff that might be worth looking at too

Google censors maps of Japan rather than add explanatory text on superstitious caste prejudice

surrael: "the old Japanese maps were suddenly changed, wiped clean of any references to the buraku villages. There was no note made of the changes"
surrael: "'This is like saying those people didn't exist. There are people for whom this is their hometown, who are still living there now,' ... Buraku Liberation League"
Ash: die in a fire, asshats
surrael: ash, your medication is by the fridge
Ash: the asshats are the ones trying to get google to censor this, to be clear
surrael: employers who run background checks on family ancestry and spouses whose parents control their lives are people you don't wanna be associated with anyway ... i vote publish the maps with proud bright flashing yellow and brown borders and a ding ding sound to alert those kinds of trolls to stay the fuck away
surrael: wikipedia page on burakumin ... goes without saying that this is certain to be incorrect in significant ways
surrael: it says "burakumin account for about 70 percent of the members of Yamaguchi-gumi, the biggest yakuza syndicate in Japan"
surrael: more or less confirming to me that what some people call crime, others experience as the culture of exclusion
surrael: eg see Inequality, crime, and public policy By John Braithwaite
surrael: The Burakumin: The Complicity of Japanese Buddhism in Oppression and an Opportunity for Liberation
surrael: view people as 'bad' because of some imagined 'reason' and you will often find they turn out bad .. this is basic psychology ... get over it
surrael: see also Prejudice: Seek and you will find!
pretender: How can one even come up with the idea of modifying historical maps?

Glenn Greenwald made a new friend today via email

Trent Reznor is guilty of Appcrime

   

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