Oceans Yet to Burn

slartibartfastibast

I was trying to ask Google why Japanese prefectures are called prefectures and I accidentally a racism:

I think the hilarity comes partly from the fact that when I stop the question at “Why are ___nese…” before I get to a noun, there is still a broken English nounification of the adjective that can happen if your standards are lax enough. And anywhere that you can ask “Why are Chinese smart?” without getting corrected on your grammar is probably also a place where you won’t get corrected on your racism. You have to be extra smart and well educated and enlightened to realize that everyone is definitely exactly the same everywhere.

mitigatedchaos

Well, like, is it technically incorrect grammar?

In English, we put the plural status as part of the noun, but the Japanese language uses things like counters and the noun 日本人 does not actually specify whether you are referring to one or more Japanese people, as “neko” does not specify the number of cats, and so on. Japanese also doesn’t have an a/an/the attached to the noun.

So, if we adopt either a descriptivist mindset or some sort of cultural prescriptivist mindset, it could be argued that Japanese/Japanese is valid just as ninja/ninja and German/Germans. That also brings up that there is no simple plural form such as “Germans”, and I don’t think anyone anywhere will approve of “Japaneses”. (Wow, “Japaneses” sounds really racist.)

So I guess it’s down to whether the listeners/readers socially approve of it, much like “Brits” is okay, but “Japs” and “Nps” were both part of pretty damned racist WW2 propaganda and are thus permanently prohibited, even though all three are just shortenings of national names.

slartibartfastibast

“Paki” bad. “Bikey” good.

mitigatedchaos

Let’s just refer to every nationality as they refer to themselves in their own countries, for cultural respect. Sure, it will feel weird saying “nihonjin” without saying “wa”, and everyone else will look at you like you’re Steve Naruto Midnight Raven the Ultraweeb, final boss of the figurine and dakimakura dungeon,

Wait, where was I going with this?

Oh, right, to avoid further confusion, by decree of the International Society for Metrification, residents of the United States of America shall now be known as either United Statesians or Unionese,

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funereal-disease

elucubrare

if you were a villain, what kind of villain would you be?

elucubrare

I’m definitely “I’m taking over the world because under my control it would be perfect”

earlgraytay

I’m the “mostly in it for the fashion and the Depraved Bisexuality” kind.

lizardtitties

I’m absolutely the “been pushed too far by you assholes” kind

funereal-disease

I’m the “taking logic to a horrifyingly inhuman extent” kind

mitigatedchaos

Joke’s on you. I’m already a villain and I’ve tricked you all into following my blog.

As soon as North America is under my control, I’ll rebuild the NAU and show the Chinese and the Russians the true meaning of the words “continent-spanning superstate”.

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argumate

You don’t need to be female to enjoy Wonder Woman any more than you need to be male to enjoy Captain America or a robot to enjoy WALL-E, but it’s amusing to consider identity based advertising anyway.

“fellas, finally a superhero movie you can watch without your wife nagging you!”

“tired of buff male superhero homoeroticism? how about hot lady island!”

“a woman can be just as good as a man… at dealing out violence and mayhem!”

mitigatedchaos

I’ll ‘ave you know I only watch movies where the main character is my exact permutation of race, sex, internal gender identity and struggles thereof, neurotype, personal hobbies, height within 2cm and weight within +/- 2 grams.

Anything else is just too unrelatable.

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collapsedsquid

I think “Reality Winner“ might be an even better name than “Shadow Moon.“ That is a mythological name that truly captures the meaning of the current era.

mitigatedchaos

My name used to be Raven Moon Night Wolf but I had it changed to Magato Rana to fit the current fashion.

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argumate

Mulan is Problematic

argumate

Let’s get down to business
- capitalism stifles human flourishing

to defeat
- war is the problem not the solution

the Huns
- an oppressed group of impoverished herders

Did they send me daughters
- misogyny

when I asked for sons
- male privilege

You’re the saddest bunch I ever met
- trivialising depression

But you can bet before we’re through
- encouraging gambling

Mister I’ll make a man out of you
- sexism, misogyny, transmisogyny, I literally can’t even

mitigatedchaos

MRAs should like Mulan over the other Disney movies, since it depicts masculinity in a more complete and nuanced way. Therefore, Mulan is Problematic.

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blackblocberniebros

Hey quick question, why is the music app on the iPhone so fucking worthless? Cant repeat songs anymore, cant listen to all a bands albums back to back. Wtf, it’s unusable.

ranma-official

No competition.

mitigatedchaos

Don’t be so harsh Ranma-san. They’re just trying to ~simplify~ the listening experience. Listening to one song over and over repeatedly, hah, who would do such a thing? Sounds like a total dork!

* hides in the bushes with an Android phone, listening to one song over and over again, as Apple iCopters buzz overhead, searching for the last users to escape the Walled Garden of Babylon, *

Source: blackblocberniebros shtpost

collapsedsquid

thathopeyetlives

Like, if the voucher system has bad results, then its bad (at least in the present context). If charter schools don’t turn out well, then they don’t and they shouldn’t get funding.

But I’m still pretty disturbed by the way that many left-wing people seem to treat any attempt to provide alternatives to conventional public schools as some kind of aggression against the continued existence of an education system.

(There’s meanwhile an attitude among some generally red-tribe right wingers that ~~(neo)Liberal Elites~~ send their children to expensive elite-gifted private schools where they don’t have to deal with how horrible the public schools are – and “horrible” often means “ill-managed”, not just “ill-funded”. Meanwhile, there is no fundamental reason why mass private schooling could not be a thing.)

isaacsapphire

“Left wing” aka Dems for purposes of this discussion, are, I’m pretty sure, thoroughly purchased by the teachers unions, which warps the market significantly.

collapsedsquid

Yes, that is totally it, and not all the fiasco that’s happened with for-profit higher education or the fact that turning any government program into a grant is the first step of starving it to death, or any one of a dozen of other reasons.

mitigatedchaos

So what you’re saying is, if I were technocratic dictator and enacted a voucher policy, it would be fine, since it would not actually be the first step towards killing public education.

Just kidding, I’d radically restructure the whole system in such a way that the bulk of marginal political will for vouchers would coincidentally evaporate.

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@mitigatedchaos

Is this going to be the new thing now? “Baizuo”?

@argumate

*groans*

The year is 2064. Having given up on America and Europe, the last remaining members of the Alt Right undergo racial alteration surgery and genetic splicing to join Chairman Liu’s Neo-Chinese Empire, a governmental franchise operating seven megacities on the Asia-Pacific rim.

As a security officer at the front of the Empire’s fight against the Pan-Islamic Caliphate, a sort of distributed theocratic government with enclaves throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, Victor Fang (born Richard Spencer, many years ago) is returned to Hong Kong after being injured by an IED, but he’s about to find out just how deep the Caliph’s conspiracies run…

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Mulan is Problematic