(Continuation from yesterday)
Aside from that.
I (we?) thanks to "The U.S. President Portrayed as a stupid", I was able to learn more about the U.S. political system.
In particular, I was able to see not only the differences between the two major political parties in the U.S., the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but also the "real faces" of the supporters of those parties.
At the same time, I thought to myself, "There are things I need to tell myself.
For examples,
- Do not confuse Islamic extremism with Islam.
or
- Do not confuse His Majesty the Emperor with the emperor system.
- Do not confuse the personality of the current president with the U.S. presidential system.
and above all,
- Do not confuse members of the U.S. Republican Party with the protesters who attacked the U.S. Capitol.
I know that this confusion makes it easy for many people, including myself, to be "taken advantage of" by political and media sentiments.
I'm experienced.
not only as a "confuser" but also as a "confused".
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By the way -- did you know that there was an attack on the Diet building in Japan?
It was the struggle to prevent the signing of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, the so-called Security Treaty Struggle.
On November 27, 1959, two million people participated in demonstrations and rallies across the country, and the attacj on the Diet took place, led by the mainstream faction of the All-Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Associations.
The problem I have here is that my feeling of
"I want not to use the term "attack on the Diet" but "rush on the Diet."
Of course, at that time, not only the ruling party but even the Japanese Communist Party condemned (scorned) them, labeling them as a "leftist violent group.
That is to say, I know relatively well (though I was not born yet) about the Zenkyoto (student-centered anti-Apartheid movement) of that time, and I can sympathize with the students of that time who rushed into the Diet.
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In other words, I sympathize with the "students who rushed into the parliament" and condemn the "protesters who attacked the U.S. Capitol".
Is there a difference between the two?
Of course there is.
Still, from the perspective of my "engineering approach" -- I feel that I am being very "unfair".