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filleduchaos | karma 2293 | avg karma 2.3 · 2020-08-07 11:18:24+00:00

> But no sane person could call the Japanese people racist.

Is this a joke? Japan has well-known issues with race relations and its historical and current treatment of its minority indigenous populations.

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sjwright | karma 8739 | avg karma 2.55 · 2020-08-08 05:00:57+00:00

Pretty much every major culture has racism in its past. Pretty much every culture still has some percentage of racist people.

filleduchaos | karma 2293 | avg karma 2.3 · 2020-08-08 14:12:44+00:00

I don't know what strange romantic picture of Japan you've managed to paint in your head, but the real-world country has well-documented and very current issues with pervasive racism and xenophobia.

sjwright | karma 8739 | avg karma 2.55 · 2020-08-09 13:43:29

All mature cultures have a noisy minority population of xenophobes. Japan isn't special in that regard and I never said it was.