Even among intellectuals such as university professors, leftist thinking remains fundamentally the same. Using the case of Hosei University professor Jiro Yamaguchi, this article examines how leftist ideology seeks to deny the very existence of dissenters, legitimizing their exclusion from public discourse, and traces this mindset through historical factional violence and contemporary cases of speech suppression.

2017-08-02
What follows is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Betraying the corporate motto of “fairness.”
This mode of thinking is fundamentally the same among the left, even when they are intellectuals such as university professors.
For example, Hosei University professor Jiro Yamaguchi publicly attacked me in connection with the Okinawa feature of the same “News Joshi” program, stating, “If Yukihiro Hasegawa does not apologize, he must be expelled from the public sphere of discourse.”
From the left’s perspective, the very fact that I appear on television or radio to speak, or write columns, is intolerable.
The thinking of Reporter Mochizuki and Mr. Yamaguchi is the same in one respect: they want to “erase the existence of Yukihiro Hasegawa.”
This is by no means an exaggeration.
When I myself was once involved in leftist movements, conflicts known as “internal factional struggles” repeatedly erupted among the left.
Not only between the New Left and the Communist Party, but also fierce internal battles occurred within the New Left itself, such as between the Chukaku-ha and the Kakumaru-ha.
The ultimate example was the horrific lynching murders committed by the United Red Army.
Such internal factional struggles and the thinking of Reporter Mochizuki and Mr. Yamaguchi are fundamentally the same at their core.
They cannot tolerate the very existence of people who hold opinions different from their own.
Since they wish to eliminate the opponent’s very existence, suppression of speech is a trivial matter to them.
Recently as well, there was an incident in which the writer Naoe Hyakuta was forced to cancel a lecture.
It is fair to say that suppression of speech is the left’s exclusive specialty.
The correctness of my argument will be proven the moment this manuscript is published.
For the left will surely once again shout, “Expel Hasegawa from the Tokyo Shimbun” (laughs).
To be continued.