Yale University economics professor sparks
outrage by proposing mass suicide and
disembowelment of elderly people in Japan
to deal with the country's rapidly aging society
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Stephen M. Lepore
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
2/12/2023 10:35:04 PM
A Yale University professor has sparked outrage by suggesting the only way to deal with Japan's rapidly aging population is a mass suicide and disembowelment.
Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, defended his views in a New York Times profile this weekend after he made the remarks on a streaming news program in 2021.
'I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,' he said at the time. 'In the end, isn't it mass suicide and mass 'seppuku' of the elderly?'
Seppuku was a ritual disembowelment that was forced upon samurai who had brought dishonor to themselves in 19th century Japan.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mofongo 2/12/2023 10:37:21 PM (No. 1401440)
He clearly belongs at Yale and is bucking for tenure.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 2/12/2023 10:46:16 PM (No. 1401448)
You first, you puke.
55 people like this.
As Orwell said: “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/12/2023 10:57:11 PM (No. 1401458)
The mass suicide is going on globally with everyone willingly stepping up and getting vaccinated. Some die quickly others will take a couple years.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/12/2023 11:27:31 PM (No. 1401475)
The world would be better served if all those Gray Panthers started taking out woke college professors poisoning the minds of our young people as they go. Think about it, professor, what's the worst consequence they would face, life in prison...hahahahahahahaha?
26 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Blackbird 2/12/2023 11:37:29 PM (No. 1401484)
Looks like we have one ignorant MFer too many on the staff.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
pensom2 2/12/2023 11:44:22 PM (No. 1401489)
Upcoming story: Yale professor Yusuke Narita retracts past statement on ritual suicide and disembowelment, says he was 'misunderstood.'"
21 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Melanie 2/12/2023 11:55:03 PM (No. 1401498)
You first, professor...what a shriveled soul you are.
20 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 2/13/2023 12:16:01 AM (No. 1401505)
And again, an opening salvo that at first shocks but as more and more people think like this it will become accepted. Think about abortion. First just within the first three months now up to and including the due date. Legalizing homosexual marriage and accepting sexual deviancy as normal and now we have sick people demanding the right to 'change' their sex. Children being mutilated. Men, saying they are women and having access to women's bathrooms and dressing rooms. Men in women's prisons. Believe me, this is a concerted effort to undermine all of Western Christian/Judeo Culture and replace it with pagan beliefs. If we think the last 'Dark Ages' was bad, we ain't seen nothing yet.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/13/2023 12:16:40 AM (No. 1401506)
You first, comrade Yale professor.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
danu 2/13/2023 12:23:17 AM (No. 1401512)
crazee is contagious....
13 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
daisey 2/13/2023 2:48:40 AM (No. 1401537)
You first, Mr. Narita.
6 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/13/2023 6:54:09 AM (No. 1401583)
Yale must be a really strange place.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ronniethek 2/13/2023 8:20:11 AM (No. 1401662)
Him first.
2 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 2/13/2023 8:58:39 AM (No. 1401688)
He's just saying what most elites think. Think "Logan's Run," except the age for "carousel" is higher.
2 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Msquared112 2/13/2023 9:06:09 AM (No. 1401696)
His dead eyes reveal a nihilism so typical of teachers these days. Imagine growing up being told that human beings are a cancer on the planet, that having children is immoral, that enjoying life is a crime, and that if you are not woke, you are nothing. This is the state of American universities today. They should be shut down forever and fumigated, not necessarily in that order.
7 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/13/2023 9:22:17 AM (No. 1401709)
You wouldn't want to put a katana in my hands, Yusuke, unless you are a very fast runner. I realize that our American institutions of higher learning produce innumerable numbers of imbeciles and clowns but that's no excuse.
4 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
stevendm 2/13/2023 9:26:50 AM (No. 1401713)
I'll bet he changes his mind when he gets to about 50 years old and realizes that he will soon be expected to kill himself.
4 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/13/2023 9:45:17 AM (No. 1401729)
Has anyone asked the Japanese elderly people what they think?
And, btw, how old is assistant prof Narita, and are his parents still living? In Tokyo? San Francisco?
4 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
broken01 2/13/2023 9:50:06 AM (No. 1401734)
Hey Professor Dimwit Narita you first and the Samurai sword is in the mail. Jerk.
3 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/13/2023 11:28:47 AM (No. 1401807)
Yea, kill off all the wise people and turn the world over to the Woke Indoctrinated MORONS, that will work! /S
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/13/2023 11:42:00 AM (No. 1401829)
Obviously not all opinionated Yale Professors have brains in their heads.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
farmwife 2/13/2023 11:59:22 AM (No. 1401847)
You first.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
jdano 2/13/2023 12:35:15 PM (No. 1401877)
Let's keep out of this before they dump the problem on U.S. taxpayers.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
joew9 2/13/2023 1:06:11 PM (No. 1401892)
The reasons for their aging population is the young people not only aren't having babies but a large portion aren't even having sex. Killing old people will change the ratio but that won't solve the problem. If he wants to make a controversial statement then how about advocating outlawing all forms of birth control including abortion, condoms, estrogen, etc. Encourage people to have sex. About 10 or 15 years ago the Prime Minister even declared a few days off for young people to have sex.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Penney 2/13/2023 1:13:45 PM (No. 1401901)
This prof & AOC are in the same wrong boat! ...They both have delusions of grandeur!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
rochow 2/13/2023 8:42:44 PM (No. 1402202)
Narita you did know that your country's birthrate is in such decline that you will not have to worry about it. With regard to this country, we will deal with it in the usual fashion, and we won't need your moron advice. We will just live to our natural end.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Faithfully 2/15/2023 8:31:03 PM (No. 1403910)
Sorry sport, grandpa san wants to live out his days.
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