• gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    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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      5 days ago

      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. 🤷

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      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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          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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            I feel like you are responding to the wrong comments chain on something, you are making zero sense mate.