{"id":15708,"date":"2019-07-24T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15708"},"modified":"2019-12-15T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T20:18:44","slug":"japan-times-jbc-116-love-it-or-leave-it-is-not-a-real-choice-on-how-trumps-alienation-of-critics-of-color-is-standard-procedure-in-japan-july-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15708","title":{"rendered":"Japan Times JBC 116: “‘Love it or leave it’ is not a real choice” (on how Trump’s alienation of critics of color is standard procedure in Japan), July 24, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. My latest Japan Times column, talking about how Trump’s recent use of a racist trope, denying people of color the right to belong in a society simply because they disagree with the dominant majority’s ideology, is taking a page from Japanese society’s standard tactics of forcing NJ and Visible Minorities<\/a> to “love Japan or go home”. Excerpt follows below. Debito Arudou Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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\n‘Love it or leave it’ is not a real choice<\/strong>
\nBY DEBITO ARUDOU, THE JAPAN TIMES, JUL 24, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roiling American politics last week was a retort by President Donald Trump toward congresswomen of color critical of his policies<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

First he questioned their standing (as lawmakers) to tell Americans how to run the government<\/a>. Then he said they should \u201cgo back<\/a>\u201d to the places they came from and fix them first.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For good measure, he later tweeted, \u201cIf you are not happy here, you can leave!<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The backlash was forceful. CNN<\/a>, NPR<\/a>, The New York Times<\/a>, Washington Post<\/a> and other media<\/a> called it \u201cracist.\u201d Others called it \u201cun-American<\/a>,\u201d pointing out that telling people to go back to other countries might violate federal antidiscrimination laws<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Atlantic was even apocalyptic, arguing that \u201cwhat Americans do now (in response) will define us forever<\/a>\u201d as the world\u2019s last great bastion of multiracial democracy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Why is this an issue for this column? Because it\u2019s hard to imagine a similar backlash happening in Japan, even though this kind of alienation happens here often. [In fact, in Japan it’s old hat…]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rest at https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2019\/07\/24\/issues\/love-leave-not-real-choice\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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My latest Japan Times column, talking about how Trump’s recent use of a racist trope, denying people of color the right to belong in a society simply because they disagree with the dominant majority’s ideology, is taking a page from Japanese society’s standard tactics of forcing NJ and Visible Minorities to “love Japan or go home”. Excerpt:<\/p>\n

JBC116: Roiling American politics last week was a retort by President Donald Trump toward congresswomen of color critical of his policies. First he questioned their standing (as lawmakers) to tell Americans how to run the government. Then he said they should \u201cgo back\u201d to the places they came from and fix them first. For good measure, he later tweeted, \u201cIf you are not happy here, you can leave!\u201d<\/p>\n

The backlash was forceful. CNN, NPR, The New York Times, Washington Post and other media called it \u201cracist.\u201d Others called it \u201cun-American,\u201d pointing out that telling people to go back to other countries might violate federal antidiscrimination laws. The Atlantic was even apocalyptic, arguing that \u201cwhat Americans do now (in response) will define us forever\u201d as the world\u2019s last great bastion of multiracial democracy.<\/p>\n

Why is this an issue for this column? Because it\u2019s hard to imagine a similar backlash happening in Japan, even though this kind of alienation happens here often. [In fact, in Japan it’s old hat…]
\nRest at https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2019\/07\/24\/issues\/love-leave-not-real-choice\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,36,22,34,52,20,5,12,14,60,11,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-academia","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-exclusionism","category-hate-speech","category-history","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-politics","category-nj-voices-ignored","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-racist-images-in-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708","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=15708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15710,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708\/revisions\/15710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}