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The Japanese lost WW2, got nuked, and then had their constitution rewritten by a bunch of Americans.
The primary portion of the document that upended established cultural relations between the sexes in Japan was written, in part, by a jewish woman.
Far be it for me to subscribe to a theory of a single cause but the post-war era seem to have taken a drastic toll on the Japanese birthrate. Considering the revolutionary nature of the imposed constitution I'm more inclined than not to say that it has weighed the Japanese people down heavily. They had their own culture that was producing children and it was destroyed. That's not to say the old ways would have been impervious to technological change. But I think they were far more anti-fragile than the thing that replaced it.
I don't think the comment was banworthy, or even in need of a warning, but c'mon, a Jewish woman was involved in the writing of part of the new Japanese constitution, therefore it was a "Judeo-American" takeover? By this logic, anything a Jew is involved in ever is a "Judeo-" effort. Which, I know is kind of your thesis, but usually your anti-Semitic seething has at least a kernel of truthiness.
I said it was a Judeo-American imposed cultural revolution. And it wasn't just some random part. She was specifically involved with the part that, I contended, upended the established cultural relations between the sexes in Japan. Which pertained to 'women's rights'. A portion she was specifically deputized to write.
You don't need to import any socialized 'logic' into this. She, the jewish feminist, wrote the part of the Japanese constitution that pertains to 'women's rights'.
I am not sure whether to be more puzzled by "socialized" or by you putting "logic" in scare quotes.
In any case, "Jew involved, therefore it's a Judeo-American imposed cultural revolution" is a pretty weak take. If all you have to do is point at a Jewish person in any organization to make it part of the ZOG, I think that's "logic" that deserves to be in scare quotes.
Because you are socialized to deconstruct the label 'jewish' but not the label 'American'. The 'logic' only gets applied to one but not the other. 'Americans' nuked Japan. 'Jews' wrote the womens rights part of the new Japanese constitution.
It's 'Jew involved, therefor it's not just an American imposed cultural revolution'. I'm not pointing to just any jewish person. I'm pointing to the jewish feminist who wrote the part of the new Japanese constitution that pertained to 'womens rights'. Which was a very radical change from the prior cultural norms of Japan.
Oh, I see.
So wouldn't it be more accurate to call it a Judeo*-Anglo-Saxon-Scottish-American-imposed order?
* And isn't Beate Sirota's Austrian heritage also relevant?
It's almost as if you're looking at a large number of people from various backgrounds involved in the effort, and for some reason deciding that only one of those is significant. What do you not apply the logic "A Jewish woman did this" = "Jews did this" to any other group?
If any of those labels existed in a meaningful sense then yeah. It would certainly be a different world if the average white American had the ingroup bias to back up their more specific heritage.
Why would it be? The 'heritage' of Europe has consistently failed to rub itself into the jewish diaspora that set up shop there. If that theory made a lick of sense I would have expected Beate to be able to fortify the Japanese culture she was raised in instead of facilitating its destruction. In fact she, and those that came before her, would long have stopped being jews and instead just become Austrian.
I very specifically stated that it was a Judeo-American operation. I certainly don't consider it insignificant that the Americans dropped nuclear weapons on two Japanese cities or that they firebombed civilian areas in Tokyo. I also don't engage in tactical nihilism about who actually did it. I don't pretend that the distinction of who made the decisions or who released the bombs or who flew the planes is meaningful. Ultimately the decision, good or bad, was made and carried out by 'the Americans'. They own that blame. I very specifically pointed this out in my previous post. I am the one being consistent here with applying individual blame to groups. It's not the fault of 'the Americans' that they abandoned their more specific European cultural heritage in favor of an American identity, unlike these jews who very strongly hold unto theirs regardless of where they are raised in the world.
No, you're not being consistent, because you're arguing that Sirota, and only Sirota, did what she did because she's Jewish and not because she's American.
No, I don't make any argument as to why someone did what they did. I just note that they did what they did whilst being who they are. Like I said before: You don't need to import any socialized 'logic' into this. She, the jewish feminist, wrote the part of the Japanese constitution that pertains to 'women's rights'.
I don't need a theory of 'why' to notice when a jew does something. She is a jew. She did what she did. The statement is true. Your problem here is obviously not with noticing people doing things and applying a group label to their decision, as can be seen with the 'Americans nuked Japan' bit which you take no issue with. You are only here because of the fact she is jewish and her actions were grouped into the 'jews' label. I am being consistent, you are not.
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