Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
> mcweigel@cs.cmu.edu (Matthew Weigel) writes:
> 
> 
>>Kirk Lawson  <NO_lklawson_SPAM@heapy.com.SPAMSUX> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm still waiting for him to indicate what his source of expertise in
>>>the matter is.
>>
>>Master's in Japanese history, apparently.
>>
>>Which, really, does give his statements of historical fact in
>>Japan some weight; but doesn't really support his ass clown
>>nature.  I'm sure PhDs see it about the same as some martial
>>artists have described "brown belt syndrome."
>>
>>It also doesn't change the fact that he is pretentious,
>>unwilling to try to understand what people are saying, and
>>incapable of being helpful rather than condescending.
> 
> 
> A damn shame really. There are few enough people on r.m.a. who know
> Japanese history (and can research in the native language to boot), I
> for sure don't have more than a poor clue even though I live in
> Japan. Unfortunately, it seems that fj.(life in Japan) is rather more
> warring and less easy to get back to a decent discussion than is
> r.m.s. Maybe if we can persuade Mr. Gowen to come over to r.m.s., and
> cut out the crap from the fj group, then there will be less influence
> from that angle and we can extract good info with the thread
> degenerating into pure horsesh*t.

Wow, what a necro.

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