/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Japan is cool and it suffers from being a US colony.

Because of anime and manga mostly

Because they're pedophiles who watch too much anime
All Zpilled Infracels recognize the need for TJD doe

They fell for the Japanese porky

>>2788397
>why does japan garner so much goodwill from leftists
list of stuff I like about Japan:

1. their culture of killing themselves
   
2. ?

Soft power

It doesn't, the average leftypoltard is a Chinaboo (who will never ever actually visit the country to understand the reality of it) and hates Japan for being imperialist US cucks something.
I like Japanese culture, and it's great that the JCP is one of the most popular parties in the country, there is an anti-imperialist left in Japan, more than in the US, but it's drowned by their fake politeness honor culture racist bullshit spearheaded by suicidal salarymen normies who kept voting for liberals for 80 years and who are scared to lose face if they say "fuck off from Okinawa and stop raping our women" to Americans.

Because those are leftlibs

>>2788397
Because politics is fundamentally a personality test. Leftists tend to be high-openness and Japan has consciously defined itself as "foreign" yet refined, which makes it appealing and interesting. That it's also the only country as politically nightmarish as the United Kingdom isn't really here or there.
The UK is sort of the perfect test case for the opposite: American leftists and liberals used to look semi-fondly at the UK despite it being a literal monarchy because Britain was also a polite, refined cultural powerhouse which was a touch more socially progressive than the US. Tony Blair may have been a warmongering bastard, but at least he wasn't braindead homophobe like bush… Then Brexit happened and people realized Britain is actually more stupid, more racist, and more boorish than the US, and in a much worse way because the brainworms entirely dominate the ruling class. (unlike the US where libs are refined and cons are boors. see britain's raft of anti-trans policy based evidence pushed by a labour government.)

It helps that Japan correctly understands that you can get away with a lot of horrible things if you're beautiful about it. It's a lot easier to be unapologetic for your war crimes when most people don't really remember that part, but do know you've got a peace constitution. Here perhaps the Britain analogy tracks, since the government wants to rip it up in an act of self-harm instead of just stretching its definition further and further. There's very little in Japan's public image to make it an alienating cultural product to associate yourself with. Unfortunately, nobody's done one of those word-cloud surveys where you make the words bigger based on what people say, but imagine one for Japan: You'd have anime, manga, video games, cars, culture, sushi, polite, ally, and so on. Then think of Britain: royal family (believe it or not: positive), accent, london, bad food, bad teeth, brexit, TERF island, maybe heritage.

Now ask yourself: which of those would you rather be associated with? "But they did war crimes ages ago and aren't sorry about it!" - yeah, that's true of both, though I will accept Japan's look worse because they weren't fighting for the good guys, but I'm not asking who you'd sell F-35s to, am I? I'm asking which set of words you think make you look better.

(This is also why /leftypol/ pretends to hate Japan, because everyone knows China doesn't like Japan and pretending to adhere to Chinese values makes you look better on /leftypol/)

Westie leftoids are weebshits and Japs bribe them with tranimanga porn.

>>2788397
>with one of the most brutal and bloodiest imperial records in the history of mankind?
Japan's current status, rest of your point (and probable bait) beside, should this factor in like at all? Every nation has skeletons their closets and nobody is innocent. This line on thinking says that there is no redemption, sin of the father are inherited to the children or there really is somekind of inalienable volkgeist and every slight will be held over the accused nation forever and forever, until proper deemed repayment? That's just stupid and serves no point beside petty performative (and selective) vindictiveness.

You think Germany is irreversibly tainted just because WW2? I think Modern german state is a shitty because it never learned it's lesson and is today a willing imperial tool, supports Israeli genocide, ruins Europe and leads it to collapse and war, etc. I however will not pull the "whatabout holocaust" on when talking about Germany much less than I would pull "Nanjing" or "comfort women" card on the japs, unless the discussion is specifically about reparations or smt.

Because they're non white, they lack the the materialist understanding that whiteness is defined by imperialism, if you're an imperialist nation then you're basically honourary aryan.

Their anti war animes make me feel warm

>why does japan garner so much goodwill from leftists
where?

>>2788397
the war was long time ago and they have more than made amends with pokemon.

just kidding. first reason I think is that europe and the US never got warcrimed as hard as russia, china, SEA, and australians. second reason I think is that in the immediate postwar period the yanks denied the holocaust and claimed it was soviet propaganda, but were racist against the japanese, but the 60s counter-culture flipped them making the krauts acknowledge the crimes to try to heal their trauma and overcompensating for the nuclear bombs by casting the japanese as victims of overt racism. third reason I think is economic interest in japan.

prepare for the banter to resume if their new japanese PM tries to deploy the SDF to taiwan.

Because Tranime propaganda

Japan known for spreading Sissy Hypno and spreading decadence around the world

>>2788397
Fuck you for these 0-effort threads.
Wish we had non-sabotaging jannies.

Thread from 2017

>>2788567
The reasondspeople keep bring up those crimes are because Japan has not apologized, and the Japanese are openly xenophobic and racist, especially against Chinese, their main victims in WW2. They show no remorse and remain ignorant of their own deeds. Then they also like playing superior and almighty, ignoring the fact that US poured billions into Japan after WW2 and are an American colony. They also play the victim, pretending their culture is the exception and that foreigners taint it just by existing there.

Maybe if they apologized and became less racist people would stop talking about it.

>>2788656
Apologizing indicates moral agency. But do we really blame them for not remaining a third world shithole when it was in their power to engage in colonialism? That's like taking someone's shit and saying sorry but not returning it

>>2788656
Japan has technically apologized several times, though only one (the Murayama Statement) was anything like a real apology. (The Koizumi Statement wasn't terrible either, but he fucked it up by also visiting the war crimes shrine.)
Of course, the LDP seethe about it and would love to revise the statement.
(I engage in this pedantry not to defend Japan, but because you'll inevitably encounter a Japanese nationalist who insists that Japan does nothing but apologize because rightoids, worldwide, love to develop a victim complex about statements like these.)

since when are weebs leftists?

>>2788567
germany at least recognizes responsibility. japanese leadership heaps the entire blame for their ww2 adventure on the united states, saying they were relentlessly tormented and 'forced' to attack their neighbors. can't trust a country like that

>>2788668
>Japan has technically apologized

Stop making excuses for them.

That being said, People need to stop treating Japan like its a fucking theme park. Its just like any other nation with social and economy issues. The counry is ugly inside if you cant see it you bought into the idea, that is a friendly nation. It isnt its terrible and if you start getting out of tokoy you will start seeing the slums a ghetos and the massive unmployment and economic desperaty. fix my grammar.

>>2788668
As I understand it those are not official apologies and not explicit enough either. Many WW2 veterans have apologized to China many times too and although appreciated not official.

I lived in Japan as a student for 3 years and attended conferences where Japanese, both students and professors, would not approach the Chinese and Korean students. This is an academic setting nonetheless. I honestly find the Japanese to be hateful and arrogant people

>>2788691
I have interacted with Japanese at school and work and they seem to be impenetrable, like I've interacted with non-mainland Chinese and South Koreans who have the silimiar cultural axis (taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and shamanic traditions) and they seem easier to get along with.

>>2788397
Because it was a progressive anti-imperialist power until being overthrown in 1945 and colonized by the anglosphere.

>>2788694
>they seem easier to get along with.

It's fake nice. I’d rather they tell me straight up that they want nothing to do with me than put up a charade.

>>2788397
>why does japan garner so much goodwill from leftists
it doesnt? most people whi praise japan are rightoids

Some people's politics end at whitey bad. Japanese culture is fascist right down the marrow of its bone but people still complain about the Rice Cookers

Japan is the Israel of East Asia, Luchu and Ezo are the West Bank and Gaza. But because they mask this with pedophilia people here support them

>>2788397
anime and tea ceremonies and other cultural oddities

>>2788702
Japs are only ever nice to non-Yamato because they absolutely needed to be under the Allied Occupation Authority. We saw in the 1925 Kanto Earthquake how japs treat non-Yamato when authority crumbles.

>>2788668
No one cares about your apologetics for your beloved pedophile haven

>>2788702
No, I was friends with them even though we would inevitably split up because they'd go back to their own countries since they weren't immigrants but we hung out even when I didn't prompt them outside of work or school and still keep in touch even though we probably won't see eachother again, I even had a 'fling' with one, so it's not necessarily fake nice.