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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_Came_on_Horseback
posted by surrael at 2009-05-05 15:04

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
posted by surrael at 2009-05-05 07:00

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?

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