{"id":17688,"date":"2026-02-09T12:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=17688"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:57:23","slug":"debito-org-readers-issues-of-concern-post-election-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=17688","title":{"rendered":"DEBITO.ORG READERS’ ISSUES OF CONCERN, POST-ELECTION FEBRUARY 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0I write Debito.org SNA “Visible Minorities” columns once a month (SNA website here<\/a>) and send Debito.org Newsletters to subscribers sporadically. \u00a0After sending, I archive them here, and below, Debito.org Readers have been adding recent issues and articles that concern them regardless of the content of the post over the past several years. \u00a0It\u2019s been a good way to allow Readers to be heard and engaged.<\/p>\n

I still put out Debito.org Newsletters, but since I\u2019m only posting on Debito.org approximately once a month, there\u2019s only one article to repost (my SNA column), and I have it here as Debito.org post anyway. \u00a0So it\u2019d only be a repeat if I dedicated another post to the Newsletter.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t want to deprive Readers of a forum, so let me continue this \u201cIssues of Concern\u201d section (still categorized under \u201cNewsletters<\/a>\u201d) and let it be a free space for articles and comments germane to the mission of Debito.org.<\/p>\n

Past “Issues of Concern” pages<\/a> are getting filled with comments that are running farther afield than the original title, so let’s create a new one now.<\/p>\n

This month, after the landslide election in favor of the LDP under a PM pandering to xenophobia<\/a>, I think Debito.org Readers should be particularly concerned about where life is going.<\/p>\n

Thanks as always for reading and contributing to Debito.org. \u00a0Debito Arudou, Ph.D.
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I write Debito.org SNA “Visible Minorities” columns once a month (SNA website here) and send Debito.org Newsletters to subscribers sporadically. \u00a0After sending, I archive them here, and below, Debito.org Readers have been adding recent issues and articles that concern them regardless of the content of the post over the past several years. \u00a0It\u2019s been a good way to allow Readers to be heard and engaged.<\/p>\n

I still put out Debito.org Newsletters, but since I\u2019m only posting on Debito.org approximately once a month, there\u2019s only one article to repost (my SNA column), and I have it here as Debito.org post anyway. \u00a0So it\u2019d only be a repeat if I dedicated another post to the Newsletter.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t want to deprive Readers of a forum, so let me continue this \u201cIssues of Concern\u201d section (still categorized under \u201cNewsletters\u201d) and let it be a free space for articles and comments germane to the mission of Debito.org.<\/p>\n

Past “Issues of Concern” pages are getting filled with comments that are running farther afield than the original title, so let’s create a new one now. This month, after the landslide election in favor of the LDP under a PM pandering to xenophobia, I think Debito.org Readers should be particularly concerned about where life is going.<\/p>\n

Thanks as always for reading and contributing to Debito.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17688","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=17688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17689,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17688\/revisions\/17689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}