I heard about this a couple of days ago, and it was one of those random news stories that cut through the noise and really bother me. All the reports I read made her sound like a basically nice person, but now our media is based around casual cruelty to your fellow human beings, and it destroyed her. At least Roman gladiators were engaged in open violence, rather than the emotional violence that now passes for entertainment.
All the reports I read made her sound like a basically nice person, but now our media is based around casual cruelty to your fellow human beings
Like slapping them around when they muck up your laundry, for example.
The article makes some vague mentions of "a new trend of intolerance towards diversity, which means that anyone who is 'different' can quickly become a target" but didn't make it clear how this applies to Kimura. The answer is: her father is apparently Indonesian, not Japanese.
I once shared an office with a man from Indonesia. He's probably the only person I shared an office with who has a Wikipedia page.
One other one does, but it looks like he put it up himself. It's just his CV, briefly summarized.
No. Just some guy from a political family.
Never read the comments.
I watched some of the livestream that Frowner linked to in the other thread and 60% of the comments (at the time I was watching) were people encouraging/daring the person filming to move up closer to the front to get better footage of the violence. That was unsurprising, but also disturbing.
3: That's a new trend? In Japan??