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chaosbowser posted...

Things like Japanese bars (not actually limited to bars) that only admit Japanese people are Jim crow tier

Source on this? Because I've never encountered this on any of my visits to Japan and the only source I could find online (http://www.debito.org/misawaexclusions.html) is now 15 years old, was about a single bar, and ended with the sign in question being taken down voluntarily after the article-writer asked the bar owner about it (and it was less about racism and more about the bar owner being unable to communicate in English to drunken GIs that were coming in from the nearby airforce base - which, I can tell you having spent plenty of time in Okinawa, is a significant irritant to the locals).

Also, the "equality" I referenced wasn't purely racial in nature, although the fact you assumed that's what I was talking about says quite a bit on its own.

chaosbowser posted...

The KKK may exist in america but they do not represent America as it is today in any shape way or form.

I find it amusing how you say this, then act like a practice which is not widespread in Japan somehow is representative of all of Japanese culture.

chaosbowser posted...

You fail to realize that part of our culture is about welcoming immigrants and that's why despite our white population shrinking we continue to prosper.

You misunderstand - I didn't say the white population was shrinking *proportionally* (as in, whites now make up a lower percentage of the population than they used to); I said that the white population was shrinking period. As in, if you count up the raw numbers, there are fewer white people in the country today than their used to be with no signs of that changing anytime soon.

chaosbowser posted...

Also, white people aren't the only americans you racist.

Never said they were. Read the post you just quoted again, specifically the part that says "across all ethnic groups".

chaosbowser posted...

Their shrinking economy is entirely the fault of their culture.

Strange, then, how in the 80s and 90s - back when their culture was far more conservative around these issues - their economy was booming and was amongst the hottest on the planet.

It's ridiculously oversimplistic to say that Japan's entire economic situation is because of one facet of their culture. That would be like me saying "America's economy crashed in 2008 because they have legal guns and keep shooting all their workers."
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