{"id":14912,"date":"2018-03-07T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T18:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14912"},"modified":"2019-04-12T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T19:28:15","slug":"japan-times-jbc-111-white-supremacists-and-japan-a-love-story-march-8-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14912","title":{"rendered":"My Japan Times column JBC 111: “White Supremacists and Japan: A Love Story” (March 8, 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. This month sees a Japan Times column that I\u2019m particularly proud of, as it ties a lot of things together. My research question was, \u201cWhy do people react so viscerally whenever somebody criticizes Japan?\u201d And I think I found the answer: Japan attracts and nurtures White Supremacists.<\/p>\n

Here are the opening paragraphs:<\/p>\n

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\nWHITE SUPREMACISTS AND JAPAN: A LOVE STORY<\/strong>
\n JBC 111 for the Japan Times Community page<\/strong>
\n By Debito Arudou, Thursday, March 8, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

JUST BE CAUSE<\/strong>
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The Washington Post reported<\/a> something interesting on Feb. 14: A farm put up a sign saying \u201cResist White Supremacy.\u201d And it incurred a surprising amount of online backlash.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Calls for boycotts. Accusations and recriminations. One-star Facebook reviews that had nothing to do with their products.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The article pondered: Who, other than a White Supremacist, would object to a message rejecting white supremacy?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But if you\u2019ve ever protested racism in Japan, or read comments sections in Japanese media, you\u2019ll know these reactions have been old hat for nearly two decades.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact, this column will argue that online intolerance and attack have been Japan exports\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the rest in the JT at\u00a0https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2018\/03\/07\/issues\/white-supremacists-japan-love-story\/<\/a>
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WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND JAPAN: A LOVE STORY
\nJBC 111 for the Japan Times Community page
\nBy Debito Arudou, Thursday, March 8, 2018
\nOpening paragraphs: <\/p>\n

The Washington Post reported something interesting on Feb. 14: A farm put up a sign saying \u201cResist White Supremacy.\u201d And it incurred a surprising amount of online backlash. Calls for boycotts. Accusations and recriminations. One-star Facebook reviews that had nothing to do with their products.<\/p>\n

The article pondered: Who, other than a White Supremacist, would object to a message rejecting white supremacy? But if you\u2019ve ever protested racism in Japan, or read comments sections in Japanese media, you\u2019ll know these reactions have been old hat for nearly two decades. In fact, this column will argue that online intolerance and attack have been Japan exports\u2026<\/p>\n

Read the rest in the JT at https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2018\/03\/07\/issues\/white-supremacists-japan-love-story\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,54,18,43,36,22,34,50,52,20,5,12,26,21,4,14,16,15,13,56,48,64,7,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-pinprick-protests","category-academia","category-bad-business-practices","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-exclusionism","category-gaiatsu","category-hate-speech","category-history","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-21","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-labor-issues","category-lawsuits","category-media","category-nj-legacies","category-shoe-on-the-other-foot-dept","category-sitys","category-united-nations","category-unsustainable-japanese-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14912"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15620,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions\/15620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}