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The japanese I know don't need auto-translated moral support, they need petrol. Or, if north of tokyo, they need petrol and electricity. Or, if even further nor

by enko 15y ago

The japanese I know don't need auto-translated moral support, they need petrol. Or, if north of tokyo, they need petrol and electricity. Or, if even further northeast, they need a time machine so they can go back and tell their past selves not to live anywhere near the damn sea. I don't know, maybe I'm just cynical, but .. what is the point. This is the equivalent of the school dance committee deciding on a "save the environment" theme. A PR exercise that you can't criticise because how dare you disrespect the dead/the whales/whatever. I just hate this kind of thing. Feeling charitable? | yes | care about visibility? | | |---------------| yes no | | make this buy TB vaccines webpage and mosquito nets work to reduce poverty

Husafan 15y ago
Yes, terribly cynical. There are prominently displayed donation links. Perhaps they can also use donations?
scott_s 15y ago
I was in grad school at Virginia Tech when the shootings happened almost four years (in fact, almost to the day). There was an outpouring of emotional support. Some of it bothered me, some of it was touching. Days after the shootings, I wandered through the student center on campus and it was filled with posters people at elementary, middle, high schools and colleges from around the world had sent to us. And by "filled" I mean nearly every wall and surface on the student center had these posters. The number and diversity was overwhelming. So, yes, do whatever practical thing you can. But it's a false dichotomy to see it as one-or-the-other. A few years prior, I probably would have felt equally as cynical about sending a poster. I do not know if this webpage makes anyone in Japan feel better, you'd have to ask them. But I know that I was personally touched by similar gestures.

by enko 15y ago

Husafan 15y ago

Yes, terribly cynical. There are prominently displayed donation links. Perhaps they can also use donations?

scott_s 15y ago

I was in grad school at Virginia Tech when the shootings happened almost four years (in fact, almost to the day). There was an outpouring of emotional support. Some of it bothered me, some of it was touching. Days after the shootings, I wandered through the student center on campus and it was filled with posters people at elementary, middle, high schools and colleges from around the world had sent to us. And by "filled" I mean nearly every wall and surface on the student center had these posters. The number and diversity was overwhelming. So, yes, do whatever practical thing you can. But it's a false dichotomy to see it as one-or-the-other. A few years prior, I probably would have felt equally as cynical about sending a poster. I do not know if this webpage makes anyone in Japan feel better, you'd have to ask them. But I know that I was personally touched by similar gestures.