Godwin's Law Reached In Whaling Debate

[Mulboyne]

News: Japanese whaling like 'Nazi experiments'
A CHILEAN politician has likened Japan's declarations it hunts whales for scientific reasons to medical research the Nazis conducted on humans. "The Japanese should not be the Nazis of the present time; only the Nazis assassinated thousands of people for research,'' said Senato Guido Girardi of the ruling centre-left Concertacion alliance. "It is not true that scientific research requires killing; that would be like saying that to do scientific research on humans one has to kill them first,'' said Mr Girardi...Chile has been vocal in criticising the whale hunt and wants to present a new initiative before the International Whaling Commission next year in a bid to combat the practice.

[dimwit]

Thankfully that never happens on this board.

[ttjereth]

Thankfully that never happens on this board.

People calling each other nazis on forums? Nah

Obviously totally unrelated to forums, here are a mess of nazi smileys




Also, looking up "nazi smiley" on google turned up one image that made me laugh way more than it should have.

NSFW (sexual content ) so just a link to the image rather than posting it:
http://m.blog.hu/at/atom/image/bejegyzpic/julius/hitler.jpg

[Greji]

Also, looking up "nazi smiley" on google turned up one image that made me laugh way more than it should have.

NSFW (sexual content ) so just a link to the image rather than posting it:
http://m.blog.hu/at/atom/image/bejegyzpic/julius/hitler.jpg

ROFLOL

[ttjereth]

ROFLOL

I just laughed at it again when I clicked the link in your quote of my post

[American Oyaji]

People calling each other nazis on forums? Nah

Obviously totally unrelated to forums, here are a mess of nazi smileys




Also, looking up "nazi smiley" on google turned up one image that made me laugh way more than it should have.

NSFW (sexual content ) so just a link to the image rather than posting it:
http://m.blog.hu/at/atom/image/bejegyzpic/julius/hitler.jpg

Yeah, that picture gave me the gigles. Did not help that I'm 3 pints in.

[Mulboyne]

Mainichi: Japan's ruling party chief under fire after comparing main opposition party to Nazis

Japan's opposition demanded on Tuesday that a rising figure in the ruling bloc retract comments comparing their party's tactics in the Diet to those of the Nazis in 1930s Germany. Taro Aso, 67, an outspoken former foreign minister, made the remarks Monday in a meeting with the president of the Upper House, the opposition Democratic Party of Japan and news reports said. "Comparing the DPJ to the Nazis is a verbal abuse that completely lacks common sense," said DPJ Secretary-General Yukio Hatoyama. "We demand a retraction, of course." Aso, considered a leading future candidate for prime minister, apparently was repeating past comments drawing parallels between the opposition's recent boycott of the Diet and Nazi tactics prior to taking power in Germany.

On Tuesday, he argued he didn't mean to say the Japanese opposition favored policies similar to the Nazis, though he did not offer a full retraction. "I only tried to raise a question about the absence of proper discussion in the upper house," he told reporters. "I was trying to explain that there have been many such cases in the past after Diet discussions were boycotted," Aso said. "There were similar cases before World War II, and that's what I used as an example."

The DPJ took control of the Upper House in elections a year ago, and have used their position to block or delay legislation passed by the ruling coalition-dominated lower house. They have also boycotted legislative action. The LDP has not released a precise quote of Aso's comments Monday in his meeting with Upper House President Satsuki Eda, but the party conceded that he urged the opposition to behave more responsibly in the Diet. Then, apparently hinting at the dangers of allowing an obstructionist party to control the government, a DPJ official speaking on condition of anonymity quoted him as saying: "In the past, Germany invited tragedy by letting the Nazis take power."

Aso was named last Friday as secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in a Cabinet reshuffle. He ran unsuccessfully last year for prime minister, and is widely considered the frontrunner to succeed the unpopular Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. A brash political blue blood who is well-known for abrasive comments, Aso has been in trouble before. He was forced to apologize in 2001 after saying as economics minister that "the best country in the world would be a country where the richest Jewish people would want to live."

[Greji]

Mainichi: Japan's ruling party chief under fire after comparing main opposition party to Nazis

He probably struck a nerve, which is why they're so pissed off.....

[dimwit]

Mainichi: Japan's ruling party chief under fire after comparing main opposition party to Nazis

Here's an interesting question. Did Aho's grandfather (Yoshida) ever meet Hitler when he was a foreign ministry offical?