[HN Gopher] Bank Shot: Abe Assassin's Wild Success
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Bank Shot: Abe Assassin's Wild Success
Author : pessimizer
Score : 36 points
Date : 2022-08-23 21:46 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (shingetsunewsagency.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (shingetsunewsagency.com)
| MichaelCollins wrote:
| The media sensationalize murderers hoping there will be copycats,
| so they'll have more sensational news to get more eyeballs and
| sell more ads. They _make_ the news. The only way to stop this is
| to call it out.
| makeitdouble wrote:
| This of course has nothing to do with the media
| sensationalizing the murderer, and everything to do with the
| incredibly dire situation of religion and politics in Japan.
|
| At this point I wouldn't be surprised if people started to
| forgot who the murderer is, while continuing to be deeply
| pissed at the wave of revelations around the cult ties in the
| political sphere.
| rayiner wrote:
| > And then something odd started to happen: As the Japanese
| people learned more about Tetsuya Yamagami and what he had
| experienced in his life, their overwhelming reaction was not a
| feeling of anger about the loss of the unloved Abe, but sympathy
| towards his assassin.
|
| Lol no: https://apnews.com/article/shinzo-abe-japan-tokyo-
| elections-...
| sosborn wrote:
| Sympathy for the assassin doesn't mean that people would
| suddenly change their votes.
|
| The fact is that many people in Japan are questioning the role
| the church plays in politics. This wouldn't have happened
| without the assasination: https://time.com/6204978/japans-
| kishida-dumps-ministers-with...
| koheripbal wrote:
| It's hard not to see this as victim blaming.
|
| No amount of work Abe did with the church justifies his
| murder.
|
| These articles strike me more as an attempt to curtail the
| sympathy votes that Abe's party is getting as a result of the
| assassination.
|
| It's the worst kind of political sleaze.
| Barrin92 wrote:
| that doesn't mean much given that the LDP wins virtually every
| election, Japan is functionally a one party state.
|
| The author is (correctly) more concerned with what the
| assassination means for the ultra-nationalists within the LDP
| and here even your provided AP article quotes agreeingly:
|
| _" This could be a turning point" for the LDP over its
| divisive policies on gender equality, same-sex marriages and
| other issues that Abe-backed ultra-conservatives with
| paternalistic family values had resisted, said Mitsuru Fukuda,
| a crisis management professor at Nihon University."_
|
| Abe was a singularly important figure for the hardline wing of
| the party and his death is not going to benefit them
| internally. The most important aspect of that Unification
| Church story is the association with South Korea, it's hard to
| imagine anything more embarrassing for Japanese nationalists
| than be associated with a South Korean cult.
| learndeeply wrote:
| Meta comment: It's pretty bold for a blog that started a year a
| year ago to call themselves a "news agency" and to claim to
| speak for the Japanese people.
| sudden_dystopia wrote:
| Pretty bold article in general.
| big_elephant wrote:
| seems like that support reversed course a month later:
| https://apnews.com/article/japan-fumio-kishida-names-new-cab...
| TeeMassive wrote:
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