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[–] 12 points 4 months ago (7 children)

This may shock you, but there are vile racists all over the globe. Ever tried being a black guy in Japan?

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  • [–] -5 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    Hasn't been my experience (I haven't been to Japan yet, I know they're xenophobic, lol) but I bet they're not violent or historically, extremely inhuman about it. And if Lemmy was a majority Japanese site, I also wouldn't be surprised if most people here held some racist/xenophobic beliefs, of course! They kind of are the Germanics of the East after all, lol. Idk what this means, are you a black guy telling me "it's not just Westerners!" (ofc, there's even colourism in African communities, I know because I married into one!) for whatever reason or are you a white dude saying the same? Cause, if it's the latter, you're just making my point...

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    They were violently racist towards Okinawan Japanese at one point, and part of the reason Japan is largely a monoculture now it's that a lot of the native people on the smaller islands got completely wiped out

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    Are black people unverally at the bottom of every racist hierarchy? I imagine some countries distribute their antipathy differently. "I wouldn't live in country X as a black person because they are obviously racist because of how they treat this non-black population, Y," doesn't necessarily follow. Like just because a country treats it's native population badly, doesn't necessarily mean they would treat black badly (though it certainly isn't a good sign).

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    wat

    You're creating a rebuttal for an argument that nobody made

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Not explicitly, but it sounds like it's a possible background assumption, maybe more to gurty's comment. Anyway, not accusing anyone of anÿthing. The fear of being called racist stops a lot of people in their tracks, including the track of investigating their underlying assumptions.

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