japan geography

I went to col­lege in Hawaii. In or­der to ful­fill one of my cred­it re­quire­ments, I took Ge­og­ra­phy of Japan.

The class taught by this ab­solute­ly bat­shit crazy old white woman who must have got­ten tenure back be­fore the pyra­mids were built or some­thing be­cause I can’t fig­ure out how else she’d be put in a po­si­tion to teach that class or re­al­ly any class. She hard­ly knew any­thing about the sub­ject com­pared to what even a mar­gin­al­ly qual­i­fied per­son should know in or­der to teach a col­lege lev­el course about Japan or ge­og­ra­phy, let alone the ge­og­ra­phy of Japan.

I lost track of how many ridicu­lous­ly out­ra­geous and just down­right of­fen­sive things she said, but one gem I nev­er for­got was when she said some­thing to the ef­fect of how the sil­ver lin­ing to the bombs be­ing dropped on Hi­roshi­ma and Na­gasa­ki was that it al­lowed for bur­geon­ing new infrastructure.

Lit­tle did I know that at the time, I was get­ting a fif­teen year ear­ly sneak pre­view into the way the peo­ple who would be­come known as Trump sup­port­ers think.
 
 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2017 Emi­ly Duchaine. Im­age source.

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