User blog comment:Hippie Rat/The Wiki-Wide Review - Hippie Rat Reviews/@comment-4661256-20170525201618

A criticism on your criticism, if you'll allow it. You make a big point of saying that the commonly-understood (colloquial) definition of the term should be used in a rap because it's what people will automatically assume when they hear the word. As a historian, I appreciate the fact that you know kamikaze refers to the storms that wrecked the Mongol fleet during its invasion of Japan, but let me tell you you're in the minority there. Most people think kamikaze refers to the suicide attacks by Japanese pilots in WWII. You kind of contradict yourself a bit there.

In addition, there were no kamikaze attacks at Pearl Harbor. The only reason kamikazes were employed was because the Japanese suffered catastrophic losses in battles like Midway in 1942, and their industry could not make up for these casualties. It therefore became cheaper to give many pilots quicker, less-comprehensive training and tell them to try to take out at least one enemy with them than to train a few of them well. Kamikazes were a sign of desperation and defeat, neither of which were a problem at the start of the Pacific War in late 1941. So if you want to have a gripe about that line, it should be about the accuracy of the use of the term kamikaze in a WWII context, not because it refers to an obscure 1200s weather phenomenon that stopped a Mongol invasion.