Those who are interested are invited to have a look. Incidentally, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been flagged 31 times for hate speech.ĪRIC’s database is available online. The utterances of the other accused parties are the same as these. Where in these remarks is the hate speech? Where is the racism? The charges are meaningless. What is wrong with praising men who, faced with inevitable death, gladly went to meet it while thinking of their families, their ancestors, and those who saw them off? Am I to ridicule them as idiots in order to deny war? Who could do such a thing?” (Also from my Twitter page) “I am astonished that anybody could say with a straight face that praising the kamikaze pilots is somehow equivalent to agreeing with the war. What I can do is to protect from this brainwashing those young people who have not yet undergone it.” (From my Twitter page) It is almost impossible… (Shedding tears).
“Sadly, it is too late to undo the postwar brainwashing undergone by those brainwashed into accepting a masochistic view of history. Among those, the following remarks have been input into the database as “hate speech”: My own flagged utterances come to 19 in total. However, the fact is that almost all of these utterances have absolutely nothing to do with discrimination at all. Some of the utterances were made by people who are already dead. As of June of 2017, I and more than 120 other authors, public intellectuals, politicians, and other figures have had more than 2,700 utterances flagged as discriminatory and input into this database. To that end, and so the speech could be carried out, these committee members apparently requested help from a security company as preparation against untoward eventualities.ĪRIC’s main activity is to scour publications, newspapers, internet sites, and so forth for “discriminatory utterances,” and then to input all of those into a database. On a committee such as this, one student after the next spoke up to say that the speech should be cancelled.Įven despite these troubles, there were members of the committee who did not want to buckle under undue pressure. From what I heard, there were students who had nervous breakdowns, and female students who were reduced to tears. The truth is that most of the students were exhausted. When 19- and 20-year-olds undergo this kind of bad pressure for nearly two months on end, they are almost certain to fold. The executive committee, which was the target of these tricks, comprised mainly of freshmen and sophomores.
#ISPEECH CANCELLATION FORM PROFESSIONAL#
And all of these things are just the tricks of the professional activists-tricks to which I have long since grown accustomed. These are nothing other than the remarks of a bad-faith complainant. If that happens, what will the executive committee do to take responsibility?” It is redolent of the lines from yakuza movies, wherein the boss says, “I myself won’t do anything, but there are several hotblooded youngsters among us…”Īdditionally, a female student from a foreign country said: “I may kill myself from the shock I receive after hearing Naoki Hyakuta’s speech. This is not a direct threat, but it is an extortionist adumbration of violence. Likewise, if Hyakuta does not fulfill these conditions, then please either postpone his speech indefinitely or else cancel it altogether.” These measures are to include that Naoki Hyakuta pledge absolutely never to engage in discrimination, that he retract at the beginning of his speech all previous incitements to discrimination, and that he publicly announce, as a quasi-official person, that he will never engage in discrimination and that he will comply with the spirit of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
“In regards to Naoki Hyakuta’s speech titled ‘The State of the Mass Media in Today’s Society,’ we ask that special measures to prevent discrimination be thoroughly undertaken. Of those many unreasonable rules, I was most surprised by the following request: All the same, ARIC asserted that my speech, by its very nature, would be inciting discrimination.ĪRIC created this premise of “inciting discrimination” out of thin air, imposed all sorts of rules (of ARIC’s own creation) on the festival’s executive committee, and then told the committee that I would not be allowed to speak unless those arbitrary rules were upheld.ĪRIC’s rules were absurd. It had nothing to do with racism or hate speech in any way.
I should add here that the theme of my Hitotsubashi talk was to be an examination of the current state of the mass media. Nevertheless, ARIC arbitrarily interpreted some of my Twitter statements in order to label me a racist and an inciter of discrimination. I have never once made a racist remark, and have never once engaged in any kind of hate speech.
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