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…
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
Add to that the well known atrocities committed against the Chinese in WW2, backed and fueled by an ideology of racial supremacy, and you can see why they could see eye-to-eye with the West. 🤷
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).
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.
This may shock you, but there are vile racists all over the globe. Ever tried being a black guy in Japan?
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…
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
Add to that the well known atrocities committed against the Chinese in WW2, backed and fueled by an ideology of racial supremacy, and you can see why they could see eye-to-eye with the West. 🤷
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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You’re creating a rebuttal for an argument that nobody made
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.