[ SECRET POST #336 ]

[degrees.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #336 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Out again, Christmas shopping/making a buttload of cookies! You know what to do!

Last day to submit for next week!

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #048.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 ] not!secret, [ 1 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Saturday, December 7th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: A Random Comment or Two....

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

Actually, in internal documents and such, a lot of racist and right-wing groups make a big deal about honor and love and rightness and courtesy and loyalty and blah blah blah. The problem is, all of this is only toward their members and people they like, and any objective external view shows them to be bigoted, racist, and the exact opposite of what they claim they are defending internally.

Re: A Random Comment or Two....

[psyienna.livejournal.com]

But everyone who automatically believes in these ideas isn't a racist, and separating the good from the bad isn't difficult. The only way is to see what individuals do, and Gackt's the exact opposite of those hate-filled bigots. Why not give him the benefit of the doubt on this one?

Re: A Random Comment or Two....

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

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But everyone who automatically believes in these ideas isn't a racist, and separating the good from the bad isn't difficult.

Agreed, but the way in which someone believes in said ideas and operates on them is also important. There's a lot of difference between, say, someone who believes in honor in general and someone who believes that honor is mandated and involves beating children (!!! Did no one read that in the article?)

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The only way is to see what individuals do, and Gackt's the exact opposite of those hate-filled bigots.

How do we know this? He's confessed to identical beliefs as the (yakuza-influenced by the way) Japanese far right, he hires minorities but only in servant positions, and he views all of the other nations he so claims to want to reach as beneath him.

Sometimes, the only way we know what someone believes IS from what he or she says, especially in cases of racism. It's not uncommon for racists to be kind enough to their own and merely chilly or ignorant of others: not all bigots and racists go out of their way to make attacks, and they're often the most sad cases since they make it more "acceptable."

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Why not give him the benefit of the doubt on this one?

Why do give him the benefit of the doubt? This isn't like claiming to have amethyst blood or be 400 years old, this is a real-world belief with real-world consequences, that he seems to unquestionably accept and want to push on others. Nor has he made any statements qualifying the racist-sounding stuff, nor has he actually done anything to prove he doesn't support those kind of views.