"bitter anko" <anko@eater.com> wrote in message
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> > Which is why Japan boasts the highest priced beef in the world (mmm,
> Mishima
> > beef...)
>
> Beef used to be only for those snobbish Kobe type pseudo-Westerner
> Etas(burakumins).

I don't give a flying fag about what USED to be. Live in the now.

> deer are holy animal in the Buddhist land of Kinai,
> Japan

Which is why they've been trying for the last seven years to foster a
population of transplanted Chinese wolves to get the deer population under
control...

> Actually, the Etas and bandits in mountainous regions have been eating
wild
> boars and rabbits, chickens, and that's why they were despised as cruel
> bloody barbarians and discriminated against.

Uhhh...no. The outcast class became outcast because they performed
"distasteful" and "dirty" work, such as leather tanners, butchers, and the
like. They weren't outcast for *eating* meat. They were outcast for *working
with dead animals*.

Get your shit straight before you go off acting like a history expert.

> > The eta (burakumin) issue is a Buddhist thing, not a Japanese thing.
> > Granted, it's mostly only in Japan this stupidity happened, but let's be
> > clear on it being a *religious persecution issue*.
>
> 90% of the Japanese are the Buddhists that hate abusing animals. Only Etas
> and Koreans are Christians butchering mammals.

I'm not even TOUCHING that blatantly bullshit comment.

...no, I take that back. I *will* touch that.

1. 90% of the Japanese are WHAT, now? In the first place, there is no such
chunk of the Japanese populace that subscribes to ANY particular religion,
and the largest chunk to be found anywhere would be Shinto, which is NOT,
contrary to popular belief, Buddhism.

2. I'm sorry, but there are Christians in Japan who are not burakumin or
Korean. And there are burakumin and Koreans in Japan who are not Christian.
And there are burakumin, Koreans, AND Christians in Japan who don't butcher
ANYTHING.

So, um...gee, you don't really have a valid argument, do you?


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