{"id":16791,"date":"2021-08-16T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16791"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:16:19","slug":"my-sna-visible-minorities-25-tokyo-2020-olympics-postmortem-where-i-argue-the-games-failed-its-goals-of-diversity-and-inclusion-predictably-and-by-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16791","title":{"rendered":"My SNA Visible Minorities 25: Tokyo 2020 Olympics Postmortem, where I argue the Games failed its goals of \u201cDiversity and Inclusion\u201d predictably and by design"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Visible Minorities: Tokyo 2020 Olympics Postmortem<\/strong>
\nSHINGETSU NEWS AGENCY, AUG 16, 2021 by DEBITO ARUDOU in COLUMN (excerpt)<\/strong>
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SNA (Tokyo) \u2014 The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are now past. This is a postmortem.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Last month\u2019s column talked about the \u201cevil\u201d of the Japanese government and International Olympic Committee (IOC) in forcing an unpopular Olympics upon Japan\u2019s residents, all the while as Tokyo\u2019s cases spiked during a global pandemic. But I also argued how host Japan in particular is trained by national narratives to see \u201coutsiders\u201d (including residents who don\u2019t \u201clook Japanese\u201d\u2014our Visible Minorities) specifically as terrorists, hooligans, criminals, and vectors of disease.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

These fault lines have predictably exacerbated the endemic social disease of racial discrimination. International events just give people more excuses to create \u201cJapanese Only\u201d signs and rules.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say that I boycotted the Olympics. In fact, given my background, I should be a superfan. […] But thanks to my background in political science, I\u2019m trained to view nationalism with a critical eye: How governments convince people to live, fight, and even sacrifice their lives for their country. The Olympics are rooted precisely in these attitudes, and forever filter athleticism through the lens of national representation and superiority.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So despite all their promises to showcase \u201cDiversity and Inclusion,\u201d<\/a> the Tokyo 2020 Olympics shirked that opportunity — predictably and by design…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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SNA (Tokyo) \u2014 The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are now past. This is a postmortem.<\/p>\n

Last month\u2019s column talked about the \u201cevil\u201d of the Japanese government and International Olympic Committee (IOC) in forcing an unpopular Olympics upon Japan\u2019s residents, all the while as Tokyo\u2019s cases spiked during a global pandemic. But I also argued how host Japan in particular is trained by national narratives to see \u201coutsiders\u201d (including residents who don\u2019t \u201clook Japanese\u201d\u2014our Visible Minorities) specifically as terrorists, hooligans, criminals, and vectors of disease.<\/p>\n

These fault lines have predictably exacerbated the endemic social disease of racial discrimination. International events just give people more excuses to create \u201cJapanese Only\u201d signs and rules.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say that I boycotted the Olympics. In fact, given my background, I should be a superfan. […] But thanks to my background in political science, I\u2019m trained to view nationalism with a critical eye: How governments convince people to live, fight, and even sacrifice their lives for their country. The Olympics are rooted precisely in these attitudes, and forever filter athleticism through the lens of national representation and superiority.<\/p>\n

So despite all their promises to showcase \u201cDiversity and Inclusion,\u201d the Tokyo 2020 Olympics shirked that opportunity — predictably and by design…<\/p>\n

Rest at http:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2021\/08\/16\/visible-minorities-tokyo-2020-olympics-postmortem\/. Go read it before it goes behind paywall. Or better yet, support independent progressive journalism and subscribe to SNA for as little as a dollar a week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,75,18,43,36,22,19,34,33,52,20,5,26,73,4,14,13,60,11,64,17,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-japanese-only-signs","category-academia","category-bad-business-practices","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-education","category-exclusionism","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-hate-speech","category-history","category-human-rights","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japans-blame-game","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-media","category-nj-voices-ignored","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-sitys","category-sport","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791","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=16791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16793,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions\/16793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}