Does being white put you at a systematic disadvantage in Japan anymore so than being say a member of a national minority or Japanese Brazilian or someone who is black?
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As I said above, it's not a difficult concept so either it's being completely myopic or willful misunderstanding
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Suggesting that people should have to apply for a permit to protest from the governments they are protesting about is the most eye boggling thing I've read
Is that a baton officer...
By the way, if you want an example of institutional racism, something like the electoral college and winner takes all is a good example of this (vs something like say proportional representation).
Shevin Keedy
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Mind boggling too!
coollino
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So many bootlickers about
Zatara
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If you look at those 2 individuals, the reason why i mention those 2 specifically is because their views echo japans:
Crinimal justice system
Wealth dispartity
Attainability to credit for ethnic groups
Political power bring pure japanese ethnicity
Healthcare bias (needing to prove insurance etc)
As i mentioned before, if you want to see examples of recent political figures (who uphold this institutional racism at all costs and are not afraid to amend laws to solidify this).
You have Japanese. Then you have non-japanese.
I have an A level in US politics...from many many...many years ago.
I need to elaborate on this as it’s important.
In 2016, Trump won the presidential election because he secured the majority of electoral college votes.
He lost the popular vote by 48-45%.
In the 2016 election, African American voters represented 10% of the electorate. Of those 10%, 89% voted for Hilary Clinton.
The African American vote was underrepresented due to the electoral college format. If it hadn’t have been, and the presidential campaign had have been by popular vote, then we’d have a different president right now.
As it happens, we have a president who is outwardly racist at an individual level, having further influence on institutional and systemic racism.
And that is evidence as to why institutional racism exists, why it can’t be ignored.
(You could take it a step further and say women represent 55% of the electorate, and black women account for 6% of the electorate. They voted in favour of Hilary by 98%. They would have been the difference between Hilary winning or not. White, male privilege right there).
@Zatara
It was so boggling, I didn't even realise what part of me was being boggled
I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here.
That Japan is also discriminatory against different races and ethnicity?
Because if you are, then doesn't that support the wider point about black lives and discrimination?
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