Evangelion Character Designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Attracts Criticism Over 'Dismissive' Tweet about Korean Comfort Women Statue

Railey2 said:
the term "comfort-woman" alone makes me cringe.
They were disenfranchised sex-slaves who were abused by the worst people that the nation of Japan produced at the time. How anyone can show such blatant disrespect to the victims is beyond me. Sadamoto is yet another piece of shit.

Too bad he's only getting criticised over this, because for saying stuff like that he deserves much worse.


What a groundbreaking disappointment.

Kyotosomo said:
Unfortunately Japan is much like China in their rewriting of history. I mean it's not like we love talking about the awful crap we've done but over here we spent quite a lot of time in school going over slavery, segregation, and the slaughtering of the Native Americans among other bad things we've done. But you're supposed to learn from your mistakes, not hide them, otherwise we can't progress as a species. Unfortunately we are more and more being pulled into a world we're the concept of people being able to learn from their mistakes is dead.

MeisterDM said:
Excuse my ignorance but what are “comfort women”?

Bourmegar said:

Well... Comfort Woman is just a kinder word for Prostitute, Hooker, Whore and etc.

traed said:
Well what does the statue look like? Might help me understand what was being said better.

Deathko said:

Pretty much my opinion for now.

Aastra343 said:
I can't understand why they are still called 'comfort-woman'. This is an insult on their ordeals and suffering by using euphemisms to downplay the gravity of the situation.

Scud said:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Peace

Certainly not aesthetically pleasing but 'dirty' and 'vulgar' seem a bit over-the-top.

Catalano said:
Sadamoto said that the statue represents propaganda and not art, that it doesn't appeal to him, it doesn't fills his spirit like art does. He made some good points and Korea over exagerates, they signed a pact, Japan payed 1 billion yen and the koreans keep shoving feelings of guilt in their faces. Can't they just stop, both of them?

Deathko said:

Well, yeah, it's ugly but hardly something to get mad about.

DateYutaka said:


what the us did on ryukyu and in Veitman is wrose than what Japan ever did in the east asain war

DateYutaka said:


not ot mean how many Zakikichi have became famous and big in Japan more tha lest say ainu have

Railey2 said:
holy shit that's so wrong, this is unbelievable.

They were prisoners of war who were forced into sexual slavery by the imperial Japanese army, repeatedly raped, and most of the time didn't survive the ordeal.
You should feel fucking ashamed for called them whores.. Apologize.



@MeisterDM
If you want to read more about the topic, here's a link. Just beware, it's a really heavy topic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women

MusicBee said:
You can easily spot some Japanese ultra-nationalists and apologists in this thread.

fulohe1 said:
This viewpoint has something to do with Kathmandu being full of billboards and flyers advertising Japanese lessons and work opportunities in Japan?

MusicBee said:
You can easily spot some Japanese ultra-nationalists and apologists in this thread.

AshitaNoJonas said:
Wait, I'm not sure if I understand this. So Sadamoto hates the statue because he doesn't want to feel guilty for Japan's past crimes, is that correct? If that's the case, then that's all sorts of YIKES

Mr Clinton made the apology in Guatemala City during his current four-nation visit to central America. It followed the publication last month of the findings of the independent Historical Clarification Commission which concluded that the US was responsible for most of the human rights abuses committed during the 36-year war in which 200,000 people died.
'It is important that I state clearly that support for military forces or intelligence units which engaged in violent and widespread repression of the kind described in the report was wrong,' Mr Clinton said. 'And the United States must not repeat that mistake. We must and we will instead continue to support the peace and reconciliation process in Guatemala.'

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental patients with syphilis. In the experiment, aimed at testing the then-new drug penicillin, inmates were infected by prostitutes and later treated with the antibiotic.

“The sexually transmitted disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.

“Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are outraged that such reprehensible research could have occurred under the guise of public health. We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research practices,” the statement said

The Holocaust is a mandatory part of German's education curriculum. But the quality and scope of the lessons are left up to the states, each of which have jurisdiction over their education curriculum.
"The first time we spoke about the Holocaust was in eighth grade," says Anneke Frommen, a high school student in Dusseldorf. "we discussed it in history class as well as in bilingual lessons." She said that they learnt all about the Second World War but didn’t focus ion any particular event.
"No Holocaust survivor ever visited our school, but we visited concentration camps where we held workshops. I am quite satisfied with how the subject of the Holocaust is handled in German schools because I believe that it is a matter that is constantly present and is very important."
Anna Laura, also from Dusseldorf said that her class read Anne Frank's Diary and focused on the atrocities committed during the war. "We discussed the subject all year long," she said. "I think that the school is doing good work by teaching the youth about the matter and by not ignoring the horrors (that were committed)."

photophobic said:
on the other hand, i am curious as to the comment that the statue "gives japanese women an opportunity to think about women's rights?" of course, it's representative of sexual slavery but surely that's not so involved with modern women's rights?

DiscoDespot said:


There is no cause for "Yikes" since he has no reason to feel guilt for something he never did. He is not denying that Imperial Japan committed transgressions, he is rightfully showing disgust in yet another iteration of propaganda attempting to instill guilt on his country.

I will never understand why people feel the need to push the burden of guilt from the past onto the current generation, if anything it just makes it harder to build constructive relationships with eachother. And when does the it end? Am I supposed to feel guilt because my ancestors fought with the Confederacy or is there an expiration-date on guilt?

Railey2 said:
no you arent supposed to feel guilt, but then again nobody does so this is a strawman.
What do you think how many people on the left actually feel guilty about things that happened before they were born? The answer is fucking nobody.

Railey2 said:
This continuous reframing of the recognition of past crimes as feeling guilty is a right-wing narrative that aims to paint people who oppose the committed atrocities as irrational, and you're falling for it.

In other words,

Normal people: we should recognise these crimes for what they are, make payments to the victims and put up monuments so that we can remember the crimes and make sure that they don't happen again.

Right-wing apologists: Zomg! You're feeling guilty for something you didn't do, you irrational lunatic!

Railey2 said:

Do you not see what's going on here? The guilt-narrative is a lie, literally nobody actually feels guilty. It's just meant to make certain people look bad, and that strategy is succeeding.