So get this: I know its shocking every time a high ranking government official says something offensive, whether it is women being referred to as "baby-making machines" (hey- at least he apologized by saying he only meant that it was their ROLE IN SOCIETY he was referring to... not the actual women themselves), or the occasional "Gaijin are criminals" comments that seem to pepper the papers these days. Never fear though good people, there is a plan at work here. This is not simply random acts of racism, not just pot shots taken in the dark at the Rights of the Individual by a few intolerant individuals. So there is no need for concern. Allow me to illuminate.

Recently, Japan's Education Minister, Bunmei Ibuki (who it seems is also an amature chef, if not a gourmand) has been put over the perverbial flames about a comment he made regarding Human Rights, namely comparing Human Rights to, and I quote, "fatty butter."



This is the education minister here people! How the hell does someone come up with a metaphor like that one? You can't help but to picture this guy eating his grits over the morning paper and a cup of Joe (no offense joe). There he is, reading about another 12 year old commiting suicide due to bullying, and he's squirming in his chair wondering how he's going to spin this one, and a big fat chunk of butter dribbles off the old guy's chin, lands on the paper with a splat, and the dusty light bulb goes on with a "That's it!!!" he says to himself, "FATTY BUTTER, you overweight genious, you, fatty fucking butter."

But it gets better. Not only did he equate an immensely important philosophical concept about how to treat our fellow human beings with a vat of artery-clogging yellow gunk, he went on to say that

"No matter how nutritious it is, if one ate only butter every single day, one would get metabolic syndrome. Human rights are important, but if we respect them too much, Japanese society will end up having human rights metabolic syndrome."

I reapeat for posterity. HUMAN RIGHTS METABOLIC SYNDROME! What kind of bullshit is that? People don't exactly have heart attcks or have to drive around on those little single person golf carts at the supermarket stuffing the free samples down their gullets and choking for air everytime someone doesn't abuse them. I've never met someone who intentionally sucked their Human Rights out of themselves through a tube (Human Ripe-o-suction?)

It sounds to me like our friend Ibuki San has got a pretty bad case of political diarreah. It also seems that this guy should find a new job.

Dietician might be more appropriate.

Or maybe professional Ass-Helmet.


Read the article at China Post.