A dissection of a racist rant Debito posted

http://bonesworld-gooch.blogspot.com/2008/03/writing-news-to-suit-yourself.html

Even more on the anti-Debito bandwagon!

http://www.occidentalism.org/

Wow, tons of good comments on the scurge of onsen everywhere!

More folks jump on the anti-Debito bandwagon!

Sorry it's been a while - consulting can be a feast or famine sort of gig and when it's feast you take as much as you can physically handle...

Anyway one of Debito's pet projects for the last few months has been a Nigerian bar owner who raped a girl in his bar. Debito rides in on his muddy brown horse and smears shit all over. And when the court transcript gets read by someone who actually reads Japanese it turns out that:

1. contrary to his ascertations there was physical evidence - the lady in question had genital injuries that she sought medical attention for

2. the Nigerian bar owner admitted to trying to have sex with her 2x in the bar and then feeling her up in the car on the way to wherever he was going to drop her off at

Now Debito's comment is "why would she get into the car with someone who had just tried to rape her?" Well, obviously Debito has never delt with rape victims who often feel that somehow what happened to them was their fault not the rapist's fault. Never mind that part of the charge was that he tried to have sex with someone who was so drunk they couldn't consent in the first place...

BUT worst of all Debito deleted the court transcript off his website because it didn't mesh with his version of the facts. Whoops - this is the same person who's been all over Tony Laszlo's case for deleting the "historical record". Pretty damned hypocritcal and if I have time I'll dig up Debito's comments on how he feels about hypocrits (needless to say he's not fond of them).

Anyway - check out the comments here:
http://www.debito.org/index.php/?p=1199

Particularly Debito's response here:

IF THE RAPE DID IN FACT OCCUR IN THE BAR AS THE ACCUSER TESTIFIED, HOW CAN THEY BE ON FRIENDLY-ENOUGH TERMS TO GET IT ON IN THE CAR AFTERWARDS? THIS IS A PRETERNATURAL RELATIONSHIP. HOLES ALL OVER THE PLACE IN THE ACCUSER’S TESTIMONY, SO YOU MUST GO BY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. THERE ISN’T ANY. THERE’S ONLY THIS CONFESSION, OBTAINED THROUGH DECEPTION.

Commentary here:
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/01/31/japan-letters-from-the-prision/

Debito's Year in Disgrace!

Yes, Debito recently posted the top 12 things that had impacted him in 2007. Let's take a critical look at the man, the myth, the looney toon come to life Debito's 2007.

END-YEAR ROUNDUP: TWELVE THINGS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE IN 2007As rumination
is the fashion at the end of every year, here are ten things(okay, twelve,
because, to paraphrase faux rock group Spinal Tap, twelve is twomore) which
changed my life in some way in 2007. In ascending order ofinfluence:

TWELVE) THE FIRST SIX SEASONS OF TV SHOW "KING OF THE HILL"

Can't say anything bad about King of the Hill, if he'd lived in the rural south he'd actually see that the humor is every bit as heavy handed as the Simpsons and South Park it is simply more culturally specific.

ELEVEN) UNCOVERING STASH OF CHEAP MUSIC MAGAZINES AT TOWER RECORDS
SHIBUYA,DECEMBER 2007

Nothing bad to say about musical taste or finding a good deal. Good for Debito!

TEN) DEBITO.ORG BLOG AND PODCASTS

Debito's blog is an interesting read of his rants and raves. Taken with a grain of salt realizing it's writen by a mid 40's white guy who moved to Japan to marry the first Japanese chick who slept with him, got a job he hates with no future, had a couple of kids whom he abandoned, and is rather bitter at anyone he deems successful it's a real hoot.

NINE) SERIOUS DVDS: THE CORPORATION, ENRON--THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM,
andAN UNREASONABLE MAN

SNIP for reading's sake - needless to say I don't agree with his choice of a terrible work of fiction (moore's Sicko) but the Enron documentary is excellent even though it spawned one of the worst peaces of legislation the corporate world has ever seen with Sorbanes/Oxley which effectively gives the people who would be best as an executive no reason to become and every reason to avoid becoming an executive.

EIGHT) TWENTIETH CORNELL REUNION: JUNE 7-10, 2007It was only four days on
my college campus, and two decades since our undergraduate class scattered around
the world. But I saw for myself that manyalums hadn't outgrown the Reagan Era
penchant for converting skills into money("Greed is Good", remember?), and
measuring success and personal growth by growth in one's bank accounts and
capital gains. Cornell's world-class liberalcarts education was discounted in
favor of materialism: Here I was amidst successful bankers, lawyers, doctors, and
other professionals, many preening. To some I was merely a prof in a no-name
university, activist of causes nobody had heard of, and a scholar of some arcane
language in a country past its prime and about to be leap frogged by China. The
brightest "star" was CBS's Early Show weatherman and fellow alum Dave Price, who
gave a smug (and yes, charmingly funny) presentation on how far he'd come. But I
realized just how far I'd grown from this crowd--and how the artsy-fartsy types I
hung around with in Risley College arts dorm were wise to have stayed away. Maybe
check backin in another ten or fifteen years... Still, I had good conversations
with much older alums (who were pre-Reagan, and by now had nothing to prove to
anyone anymore), and nice meetings with Cornell academics (and their students)
who knew what I've been up to over here.

Anyone who wants to delve deeply into Debito's mental problems should read his post about his trip back to the USA to attend his 20 year reunion and to see his daughter for the first time in years. It is a deeply disturbing view into a damaged mind that will give you not only some sympathy for the man but help explain some of the reasons he is the way he is.

Again - read his blog. This is the crux of Debito's mental problems - his search for acceptance and desire to be respected. He didn't get his start in activism because of anything special - he got his start in activism because it was "cool" and, well, artsy/hippie chicks are easy at Cornell.

FIVE) MY CRAZY WEEK OF SPEECHES JUNE 21-27,

FOUR) THE NJ FINGERPRINTING DEBACLES

THREE) MY JAPAN TIMES COMMUNITY PAGE ARTICLES, PARTICULARLY DECEMBER 18, 2007

One of my favorite things is that apparently for someone like Debito OpEd peaces are publications worthy of note. Guess this explains why he never went further than his masters degree...

TWO) MY JOB EPIPHANY, SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 2007One head turner was when I
noted I wanted to quit my job at HIU--after findingout from my bosses that I
wasn't worth a sabbatical because, inter alia, I wasmerely an English teacher to
them. Since then, I have gotten a few apologiesfrom people about the things they
said (in particular that "merely an Englishteacher" thang), and will see if
they'll look more favorably upon the sameproposal next year. Meanwhile, I've
still realized that I've outgrown the placein terms of research topic and
educational focus, and want to work somewhereelse more in tune with that. I'm
still looking, and am following a few leads.But I'm also realizing that I'm at
an awkward age--too old and senior to need totolerate the gaijin treatment from
my kouhai (who have to be barked at from timeto time just to get them to follow
Japanese rules), yet not senior enough toavoid the gaijin handling by my much
older senpai (who land jobs here afterretiring from other universities, meaning
we don'tget promoted to positions of authority ourselves). It's not a very
comfortablestage in our lives (and I'm increasingly seeing older Japanese men as
some ofthe loneliest people on the planet). But there is no guarantee it'll be
anybetter anywhere else. So we'll just keep plugging away and hoping the kudos
willaccrue and stick. It's all gotta mean something sometime, right?
Fingerscrossed.

It means nothing at all. You're not even listed as a professor on your schools website but as a lecturer. Deal with it, your another expedable who they can hire a fresh off the boat english speaker to replace with 0 change in quality.

ONE) MY TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES, JUNE 2007This was one of the most
traumatic experiences of my life, where I learned myparents don't even wish me
well, I saw confirmed and undeniable evidence oftheir child abuse, and I
realized that many of the pivotal decisions I've madeup to now have been
attempts to get away from them. To quote activist andauthor Rebecca
Walker:

This trip was disturbing on several levels. The interaction between Debito and his daughter was just frightening. Not on her side but on his. The guy just doesn't get it and thinks that after walking out on his family his daughter should somehow be happy he walked back into her life for a week... Yeah... Anyway - have fun!

Would you hire this man?

Debito is looking for a job. Why? Because his employer wouldn't let him take a sabbatical for a year. Why wouldn't they let him take a sabbatical you ask? Well, it might have something to do with the fact that if he takes a sabbatical they might have to hire another Eikawa teacher since, even though he teaches at a business school, all Debito teaches is Conversational English so none of his Japanese collegues can cover for him during the year. Although he does have "more publications than pretty much anyone else", of course none of those publications are relevant to the area he is employed to teach in, and none are in peer reviewed journals, in fact 99% of them are Op-Eds. And the poor guy wonders why noone gives them any weight?

So Debito decided to post an angry blog entry as well as sending out his rant to some of his lists. Well, someone with more self control and common sense must have told Debito "hey, noone is going to hire you with you bad mouthing your employer like that, especially when any employer is going to throw you into google and see this rant." So Debito, who loves to harp about people deleting the permanent record, deleted his rant off his website. Fortunately he doesn't have those editing rights so here, from the horses mouth, is Debito's rant:

Hi lists. I've talked this over with a few friends, and they insist I should make this public:

As the title indicates, I'm looking for a new job.

I mentioned in an earlier Debito.org newsletter that I had a pretty rotten September. One reason is that my workplace, Hokkaido Information University in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, a place where I have been working since 1993 in earnest and with great diligence, finally made it clear that I am just a gaijin teacher to them.

I have spent the past three years lining up a one-year research sabbatical at several universities in Tokyo. Last April, a first-tier Private University in downtown Tokyo said yes. Research topic: I would visit each and every Diet Member over a year for an oral interview, and asking them one fundamental question: "Do you support the passage of a law against racial discrimination? Why or why not?" Record it, create transcripts in English and Japanese, and put it up on Debito.org so that the issue would also garner attention in the press. Let's see where our elected officials stand on this fundamental building block of Japan's internationalization. My publisher, Akashi Shoten Inc., even gave me a formal letter of interest in my publishing a book about it. It was all falling into place.

Except that a few weeks ago my university rejected my request for the sabbatical. First they said that sabbaticals only apply to overseas junkets(which is not true in other universities). Then they said one year was too long(even though other native Japanese teachers have taken one to two years overseas. One teacher has even taken three sabbaticals in 19 years, even though you're only supposed to take one every seven years or so). When I raised allthese points, they were deemed irrelevant.

Finally, it all came down to exactly what I have been studying--a matter of discrimination. They made it clear that I'm just employed as an English teacher (with tenure, but still), so my research was inapplicable to my field. Even though in Japan we are guaranteed freedom of study (gakumon no jiyuu), and my field for more than the past ten years has been Japan's internationalization(not merely how Japanese should learn English). As you might know, I've published two books (a third coming up for sale in January) on the subject, as well as two textbooks and a
slew of articles and research papers.http://www.debito.org/publications.html

In the end, even after more than 14 years of dedicated service and more publications than probably anyone else, it was clear my research just didn't matter to them.That's it then. I'm not going to stay at a place which doesn't appreciate what I'm doing. Anyone want me to teach human rights at their institution? My resumes in English and Japanese are downloadable from http://www.debito.org/index.php/?p=641

Sorry to kvetch in public like this, but I think I've done enough to warrant better treatment. But in the end, at this university, anyway, it's clear I'm just a gaijin. I'll have another Debito.org Newsletter out shortly. I didn't want to bury this appeal within one.

Arudou Debito in Sapporo

www.debito.org, debito@...

ENDS

Welcome to the Danny Debito Show!

Yes, I've had it up to here and decided that the only way to combat his Debitoness is to put up a blog posting to the world the hypocrisy, idiocy, and general asshattedness that is Dave Aldwinckle aka Arudou Debito aka Jank#1.

Here are 2 good rumors. Now they're only rumors, I can't confirm it or deny them, but since the former usenet broke the story of Debito's divorce more than a year before it became public knowledge I thought I would go ahead and see if these stories have legs too.

#1. Rumor has it that a certain Debito has decided that since Japanese family courts have no real teeth to enforce divorce orders and since he does not agree with how the children he abandoned are being raised that he no longer needs to pay for their support. Yep, rumor has it that Debito has become a deadbeat dad. Now I can understand that an Eikawa teacher, particularly one in his early 40's doesn't make a lot of money. And I know that Debito takes a lot of trips around Japan which can't be cheap on his salary. But stopping your child support? For shame...

#2. Rumor also has it that last year when Debito legally changed his name after his divorce (his former legal name was Sugawara ArudouDebito) it seems he decided that his children should have his new moniker too. It also seems he neglected to tell his former wife about this change which led to some problems with her getting the benefits for the kids since no one using the name she had for them was registered...