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The irony of lamenting people's reading material and then posting a Jacobin article the reads like a wall of text internet rant with some tabloid scuttlebutt sp

The irony of lamenting people's reading material and then posting a Jacobin article the reads like a wall of text internet rant with some tabloid scuttlebutt sprinkled throughout. This is NOT a serious take on Abe. Centrist and professional IR academics laugh at the narrative that he's a fascist. A take that lives up to your handle. Edit: example from (center)left leaning academic economist blogger that speaks specifically to the racist/fascist take you propagated here. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-japan-that-abe-shinzo-made https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-japan-that-abe-shinzo-...

plaguepilled 4y ago
Jacobin's tone sucks, but by your logic you should be ashamed to link noahpinion, right? He's an academic but that doesn't automatically obviate him from being scorned for his style.
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eganist 4y ago
To back the consensus opinion that he's a revisionary nationalist, here's one analysis: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53950704 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53950704 Still, assassination is the wrong way to bring about change. As of now, he seems to still be alive; I hope he recovers, and I doubly hope that regardless, Japan is spared the chaos that sometimes follows assassinations.
noSyncCloud 4y ago
wisemang 4y ago
At the very least he’s an apologist for Japanese war crimes. Also pretty fascist imo but whatever, I’m also just some rando on the internet who could cherry pick articles to support whatever narrative I was looking for or am already biased towards. Lol substack. Anyways how about the far-right ultra-nationalist party he was an advisor to[0]? I wonder if it was a pissed off Ryukyu native[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Kaigi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Kaigi [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/7bd3ee/this-one-island-is-the-centre-of-increasing-tensions-between-china-japan-and-the-us https://www.vice.com/en/article/7bd3ee/this-one-island-is-th...
rtpg 4y ago
Noah (who recently praised Taiwanese politicians for the extremely materialistic point of them sometimes being cosplayers) is not much of a deeper thinker than most stuff in Jacobin. Abe is in Nippon Kaigi. He is a nationalist. He pushed for revising the constitution to remove the purely self-defense nature of the SDF. This is not a popular idea in Japan. It is barely a popular idea in his party! The guy also liked the idea of picking a fight with China. Now of course there are more intense people in Japan, but the guys a nationalist, and would push for unpopular ideas along that axis! Is he a fascist? He supported more nationalist education reform that minimized wartime questions, was involved in a personal scandal with a far right school, pushed for more expansive police powers… I mean a lot of the stuff aligns. The label itself doesn’t matter, but you can look at the details and judge based on that. Noah’s analysis is that he got more people into jobs and got the military to be bigger.
- rayiner 4y ago
  He’s a nationalist (who isn’t?) and he wants to re-arm Japan. Sounds like the right approach in a world where China is digesting Hong Kong, is eying Taiwan menacingly, and where the US is showing clear intention to abandon its role as world police.
  - rtpg 4y ago
    Someone's political ideology is their political ideology, you might think it makes sense given the context but (for example) socialist economic policies don't become less socialist by being popular or making more sense or less sense in the economic context. You might think that Abe's positions are correct or the norm, I don't believe that changes the judgement that he's a pretty heavy nationalist. Nationalists are willing to torpedo economic relationships with neighboring nations out of national pride. Loads of people are not nationalists!
kafkaesque 4y ago
"Some people used to point to my grandfather as a Class-A war criminal suspect and I felt strong repulsion. Because of that experience, I may have become emotionally attached to 'conservatism.'" Shinzo Abe in his autobiography Towards a Beautiful Country, 2006

plaguepilled 4y ago

Jacobin's tone sucks, but by your logic you should be ashamed to link noahpinion, right? He's an academic but that doesn't automatically obviate him from being scorned for his style.

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eganist 4y ago

To back the consensus opinion that he's a revisionary nationalist, here's one analysis: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53950704 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53950704 Still, assassination is the wrong way to bring about change. As of now, he seems to still be alive; I hope he recovers, and I doubly hope that regardless, Japan is spared the chaos that sometimes follows assassinations.

noSyncCloud 4y ago

wisemang 4y ago

At the very least he’s an apologist for Japanese war crimes. Also pretty fascist imo but whatever, I’m also just some rando on the internet who could cherry pick articles to support whatever narrative I was looking for or am already biased towards. Lol substack. Anyways how about the far-right ultra-nationalist party he was an advisor to[0]? I wonder if it was a pissed off Ryukyu native[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Kaigi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Kaigi [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/7bd3ee/this-one-island-is-the-centre-of-increasing-tensions-between-china-japan-and-the-us https://www.vice.com/en/article/7bd3ee/this-one-island-is-th...

rtpg 4y ago

Noah (who recently praised Taiwanese politicians for the extremely materialistic point of them sometimes being cosplayers) is not much of a deeper thinker than most stuff in Jacobin. Abe is in Nippon Kaigi. He is a nationalist. He pushed for revising the constitution to remove the purely self-defense nature of the SDF. This is not a popular idea in Japan. It is barely a popular idea in his party! The guy also liked the idea of picking a fight with China. Now of course there are more intense people in Japan, but the guys a nationalist, and would push for unpopular ideas along that axis! Is he a fascist? He supported more nationalist education reform that minimized wartime questions, was involved in a personal scandal with a far right school, pushed for more expansive police powers… I mean a lot of the stuff aligns. The label itself doesn’t matter, but you can look at the details and judge based on that. Noah’s analysis is that he got more people into jobs and got the military to be bigger.

rayiner 4y ago
He’s a nationalist (who isn’t?) and he wants to re-arm Japan. Sounds like the right approach in a world where China is digesting Hong Kong, is eying Taiwan menacingly, and where the US is showing clear intention to abandon its role as world police.
- rtpg 4y ago
  Someone's political ideology is their political ideology, you might think it makes sense given the context but (for example) socialist economic policies don't become less socialist by being popular or making more sense or less sense in the economic context. You might think that Abe's positions are correct or the norm, I don't believe that changes the judgement that he's a pretty heavy nationalist. Nationalists are willing to torpedo economic relationships with neighboring nations out of national pride. Loads of people are not nationalists!

kafkaesque 4y ago

"Some people used to point to my grandfather as a Class-A war criminal suspect and I felt strong repulsion. Because of that experience, I may have become emotionally attached to 'conservatism.'" Shinzo Abe in his autobiography Towards a Beautiful Country, 2006