"He's the face of it," Johnson said of Wilson.
Cynthia Tucker called on Johnson to apologize for his over-the-top racebaiting.
Johnson is a member of cultish group that indulges in over-the-top rhetoric as a matter of religious practice. SGI-USA, the "Buddhist" organization that Johnson supports, routinely declares that enemies of SGI are evil and must be crushed. Soka's attitude toward critics and non-SGI Nichiren Buddhists is anything but tolerant.
With his fear-mongering, overheated, illogical rhetoric, Johnson's just showing off the "Buddhist" training he received as a longtime member of Soka Gakkai.
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Mroaks, I don't know that I would go so far as to say Rep. Johnson's remarks were akin to the awful Soka "hate chanting," enemy-crushing rhetoric.I agree with the points made in this commentary:
Watching the video of Johnson's comments, one thing that struck me as unintentionally funny (from an ex-SGI perspective) is that he says: "We'll have folks putting on white hoods and white uniforms again..."Do white sheets count as uniforms? What's funny to me is that prior to 1990, SGI/NSA members all wore white uniforms at meetings and rallies.So, the specter of people going back to wearing white uniforms truly invokes cultiness -- and yes, I see the KKK as a destructive cult.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALoQMzo00rs&hl=en&fs=1&]Why would anyone say such a thing about Joe "the Confederate heritage is very honorable" Wilson?