A lodging facility in Kyoto has drawn a protest from the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo for asking an Israeli man to sign a pledge that he had never been involved in war crimes.
A lodging facility in Kyoto has drawn a protest from the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo for asking an Israeli man to sign a pledge that he had never been involved in war crimes.
So, to be clear, you get how that’s more than a little bit fucked up, right?
To demonstrate, imagine a deep southern U.S town instituting an English-only policy and aggressively turning away for example Spanish or Arabic-speakers.
This is not something to be celebrated. Ban the thing you actually want to prevent instead of pushing through unmitigated xenophobia.
Yeah that’s called Tuesday in the rural south.
Yes, I do. But I am a foreigner there. When we don’t observe their traditions and disrupt their society, I feel like it’s okay for them to set boundaries.
I get why it’s not right, but I also accept it. It’s not my country, not my rules, not my traditions. So, I am willing to live by their rules.
I’m not saying it’s the right thing to do but a big difference here is that up until VERY recently, the US did not have an official language, so for them to say “English only” would be a bit more offensive than for Japan (whose official language is Japanese) to say “japanese only”.
Additionally, the US is on colonized land, so English wouldn’t be the native language of the land. Japan on the other hand has existed for close to 40,000 years and was not colonized in the same way (Not saying that the Japanese historically haven’t been colonizers, but the island of Japan is generally not). I genuinely wouldn’t even be mad about it if someone in Manitoba made a rule that was like “Ojibwe only”.
But also to your point, yeah the US did recently pick an official language AND launch an “English only” campaign for a whole profession and it is extremely fucked up.
You realize not every country wants foreigners right? It’s their right to dictate that. There was this whole thing about how America and England literally threatened Japan with artillery until they opened their borders.
That’s an extremely complicated philosophical argument that goes beyond two simple sentences, I hope you realise
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Why are you using racist terms here?
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It is both. But since your C—ass can’t be bothered to spell it the supposedly “non-racist” way, you’re getting called out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coonass
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/coon/homepage.htm
BAHAHAHhahahaha! Oh man. Sure, yeah well-if the intertubes says it huh.
Lemme clarify then: That is bull shit.
And “coon” is a racist term, so don’t use it. What is wrong with you.
Why is it when people who are wrong and know they’re wrong, doing dumbass shit always respond with “BWAHAHAHAHAAaa” as if it means anything? Without fail, these dip-shits always do this.
If my culture had a term ‘n-wordass’ I would not have the unmitigated gall to try and argue it wasn’t racist.
Seriously, what is wrong with you?
Oh, that’s right, you’re trying to defend the use of an obviously racist term. You’re a racist. That’s what is wrong with you.