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  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    2 years ago

    My immediate assumption was that the shooter was a Nazi who thought he'd find Abe followed around everywhere by a Jew.

    • Japan has a very low rate of religious violence. But Japan does have a Nazi problem

    • Reports alternate between "certain group" and "certain religious group." Jews are both a religious group and an ethnic group.

    • The shooter didn't have a problem with Abe's far-right politics but was "dissatisfied" with him, for unclear reasons. If the shooter believed that he was under the influence of a global Jewish conspiracy, that would explain that contradiction.

    • The shooter followed Abe expecting to find the religious figure, as opposed to just tracking the religious figure directly. Because the religious figure he wanted to kill didn't exist since they were an imaginary Jewish puppetmaster. Likely, his goal was to free Abe from said puppetmaster, and decided that if he couldn't do that, the only option was to kill Abe.

    • You might ask, why would the shooter think that a conspiracy would require Abe to be constantly overseen by a Jew, and why would he think that killing that individual person would stop the conspiracy? Because that's exactly the kind of dumb shit that Nazis believe.

    It's possible that the religious groups mentioned in the thread are relevant, but I'll bet if you dig around on Japanese far-right forums, you'll find conspiracy theories linking them to Jews. Most right wing conspiracies are rooted in antisemitism, if you dig deep enough.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The shooter's mom donated a shit ton of money to the Moonies and bankrupted the family, so it's likely not antisemitism this time

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Honestly would love it if the shooter had a actual material reason for revenge on Abe instead of just anti semetic nazi brainworms

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah I'm split between either someone with a legitimate grudge against Abe or just a crazed ultra-nationalist chud

            • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              It seems he had a legitimate personal grudge against the Moonies and was trying to get revenge on them, so it doesn't look nationalist at all. I guess he settled on Abe as the Moonie leadership were hard to target

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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      2 years ago

      But Japan does have a Nazi problem

      funny you mention that, but I've recently learned from my family over in Korea that apparently apparently Jewish education has become a big thing over there. It's more to do with the cultural tradition of scholarship in Korea, which in contemporary times has been perverted into an obsession in forcing your kids to go through academic rigours in order to increase their chance of achieving a desired life as a member of the petite-bourgeoise.

      That said, I find this both hilariously and disturbingly ironic.

      • Ziege_Bock [any]
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        2 years ago

        “Jews account for just 0.2 percent of the world’s population, but 23 percent of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish,” Seoul-based student Choi Jae-young related. “And despite all the time and money we spend on education, only one Korean has ever won a Nobel award. That irks many Koreans. It makes us want to learn Jews’ secrets.”

        This is kind of like Japan's Fugu Plan, where there was an initiative to induce immigration of Jews from Europe and America to Japan, based in part because the Japanese thought the Protocols of the Elders of Zion made the Jews sound impressive.

        • Czolgosz [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          That is somehow both cool as hell and also deeply stupid. What the fuck. I'm Jewish and laughing my ass off about this.

        • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          This is wierdass thing in Asia, i once got a crazy catholic teacher who once said that the nobel prize thing was proof that Jews are the "chosen people"