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That is some bizarre obliviousness of privilege. I thought all of the more-equal-animals knew to keep quiet on the implicit bribes and other luxuries of their s
by 0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
That is some bizarre obliviousness of privilege. I thought all of the more-equal-animals knew to keep quiet on the implicit bribes and other luxuries of their station.
- mc3301 1y agoIt's rather quite the opposite in Japan. The "more-equal-animals" consistently make public completely oblivious remarks, only to apologize the following day and then (often) just go back to business as usual.
- deadbabe 1y agoI think this is driven by the fetish to be extremely apologetic in Japanese culture.
- mc3301 1y agoI don't think the grey-haired dinosaur politicians are sexist, classist (is that a word?) and racist because they love to apologize.
- Dylanlacey 1y agoYeah, their imperviousness to either progress or consequences is kind of incredible. An entire nation of collectivist, rule-following tendencies with a scummy layer of cartoonishly evil folks at the top, who for some reason seem immune from having to be decent people.
- mc3301 1y agoAnd yet, somehow, it's a generally pleasant country to live in with happy healthy people and opportunity. Though, that momentum Japan's been running on seems to be running out.
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- bananalychee 1y agoThese days it seems preferable to the Western alternative of politicians blatantly lying about their class to avoid the label.
- gerdesj 1y ago[flagged]