Things are really getting out of hand in China with Japan hatred.

[Bonobo]

Thanks to decades of state-sponsored anti-Japanese propaganda, there is a lot of Japan hate. Yes, I am aware of WW2, but the Chinese govt. has been using this for a long time to deflect criticism against them by using Japan as an external enemy.

Here is a sign held by workers at Audi in China. The sign reads, in part, "Kill all Japanese."

The current anger has been spurred by the Japanese govt's purchase of a disputed island from a Japanese private citizen. China wants it and in an ultra irony is claiming that Japan is being imperialistic.
As you might know, China has been feuding with many Asian neighbors recently over small, uninhabitable islands.

[Bonobo]

1. FULL TRANSLATION:

"WE WILL KILL EVERY JAPANESE PERSON EVEN IF IT MEANS DEATHS FOR OUR OWN; EVEN POVERTY WILL NOT DETER US FROM RECLAIMING THE DIAOYU ISLANDS"

[loli phabay]

3. damn no beating about the bush there,

[HiPointDem]

6. why outside audi?

[4th law of robotics]

7. They're willing to die over a handful of useless uninhabited rocks

200 miles away that China hasn't controlled in over a century?

[RobertEarl]

2. This is not good

China is starting to get upset with things.

These days they have many dangerous technologies that, as the US has proved, can be used in bad ways.

[Brickbat]

4. Audi getting its money's worth there...

Is that a dealership or an assembly plant?

[4th law of robotics]

5. If we were to somehow put limitations on our freedom of speech

would that resolve the underlying hatred and political support that is causing this unrest?

[Bonobo]

8. The limitations should be on the use of gov't media as trumpeters of hate speech.

Not on individuals who are merely being manipulated.

These protests are all sanctioned by the Chinese govt. despite their claims otherwise.

Protests don't happen in China without the govt's say so, so is that REALLY "free speech" or is it the govt. fighting a proxy war?

[jsr]

9. “Nuclear extermination for wild Japanese dogs”

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-17/anti-japanese-protests-flare-in-china-over-disputed-islands

Anti-Japanese Protests Flare In China Over Disputed Islands
By Dexter Roberts on September 17, 2012

“Never forget the national humiliation,” and “Protect China’s inseparable territory,” read some. More disturbingly: “Let’s kill all Japanese,” and “Nuclear extermination for wild Japanese dogs.”

Those are some of the sentiments irate Chinese are displaying on protest banners across the country, as demonstrators in more than a dozen cities including Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Nanjing take to the streets, angry at Japanese control of the disputed Senkaku islands, or Diaoyu in Chinese, an uninhabited but possibly resource-rich atoll in the East China Sea.

[Odin2005]

10. This is the kind of jingoistic BS that starts wars.

[Bosonic]

11. China is about to ramp up the dispute even further

China sends 1,000 boats armada to disputed island chain

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014233976