Showing posts with label entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entertainment. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Delusional Donald Trump Believes Elton John WIll Play At His Inauguration

During an interview on the BBC's Hardtalk a representative of Donald Trump's claimed that Sir Elton John would perform at the inauguration of Donald Trump.  Sir Elton John supported Hillary Clinton and has stated he won't be performing for the King Cheeto Jesus.

  Sir Elton John will not perform at Donald Trump's presidential inauguration, a spokeswoman for the singer has said.
Anthony Scaramucci, a member of Mr Trump's transition team, had told BBC HARDtalk that Sir Elton would perform in Washington DC in January.
"Elton John is going to be doing our concert on the mall for the inauguration," Mr Scaramucci said.
But this was "categorically denied" by Sir Elton's representative in London.
"There is no truth in this at all," she told BBC News.

Donald Trump and his sycophants are so damn delusional that they'll convince themselves that what is utterly false is completely true.  During the campaign he used without authorization from Elton John Rocket Man and Tiny Dancer at various campaign events.








Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Japan combats rise in hate speech

Japan isn't combating the rise in hate speech or any other form of racism because they refuse to acknowledge that it's even happening.   Go to any public school in Japan everyday for a month and you'll discover that it's not just students but teachers who are complicit in the scourge of racism which is pervasive within Japanese society. While schools are just a microcosm of the larger problem doesn' excuse the fact that these types of behaviours  can be witnessed across a much broader spectrum from the news media to entertainment and within the government itself.   Japan is doing what it does best pretend to confront a difficult social issue then sweep it all under the carpet after the spotlight has been removed and the intense scrutiny ends.

Japan is the only developed country without anti-discrimination laws, and ethnic Koreans are often targeted

  On a chilly February evening in 2013, Shinhae Lee, a journalist and ethnic Korean woman who has lived in Japan her whole life, was at home by herself in Osaka when her computer pinged with a message from a friend. It said the leader of the nationalist group Zaitokukai had just announced on the Internet that he was sending her a spike, known in Japanese lore for its ability to curse someone to death.Sensing she was up against thousands of faceless ultranationalists who wished her the worst, Lee went to the police, who said there was nothing they could do. She had been told the same thing two years earlier, when she reported that she felt threatened by a wave of hateful comments online and in public. A 44-year-old freelance writer who lives with her Japanese husband and teenage son, Lee got on Zaitokukai’s radar in 2011 after criticizing the group, which claims to have about 15,000 members, in a series of articles and TV appearances. Zaitokukai followers retaliated against Lee at rallies and on social media, calling her a “Korean hag” and other ethnically and sexually charged invectives. Once, after a Tokyo protest, a 28-year-old office worker wrote on Twitter, “Let’s expel Koreans, the good ones and bad ones, and let’s kill that woman,” referring to Lee. The police questioned him, and he apologized, but she was deeply shaken by how casually and gleefully strangers could champion her murder.

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