{"id":6564,"date":"2010-04-20T12:55:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T03:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6564"},"modified":"2012-09-14T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T00:39:10","slug":"tokyo-gov-ishihara-encourages-witch-hunt-for-j-politicians-with-naturalized-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6564","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Gov Ishihara encourages witch hunt for J politicians with naturalized ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHi Blog. They say that as you age, you become a caricature of yourself, as the mind becomes more inflexible and lifelong habits and ideologies become ingrained.<\/p>\n

But then there are those who turn mean and nasty, if not outright insane. And I believe Tokyo Governor Ishihara has finally turned from a committed politician to a politician who should be committed.<\/p>\n

Debito.org Reader GS puts it well when he writes:
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Hi Debito, Anti-suffrage rightists say they are against suffrage for permanent residents because “foreigners can naturalize if they want equal rights with Japanese.” Well, now Governor Ishihara is using “naturalized” as an epithet to smear members of the ruling cabinet as untrustworthy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Apparently they’re on a witch hunt for not only “naturalized” Japanese who supposedly can’t be trusted, but any Japanese who might have parents who have been naturalized!\u00a0 I really believe Japan is an outlier when it comes to race. The idea that nationality is a racial concept – as opposed to a legal concept – is so ingrained here I’m afraid it will not die easily.\u00a0 A minister in Germany is of Vietnamese descent. And yet Japan is terrifried that a cabinet member might be naturalized or have naturalized parents. Really pathetic. GS<\/em><\/p>\n

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COMMENT<\/strong>:\u00a0 It hardly bears fully iterating, but:\u00a0 Here we have this dangerous tendency of Ishihara solidifying into a fully-formed ideology, based upon the fundamental tenets that 1) foreigners cannot be trusted, 2) foreigners are always foreigners, even if they are Japanese citizens for generations, 3) foreigners think along blood lines and will work against Japanese interests if their blood is not Japanese<\/strong>.\u00a0 In other words, personal belief is a matter of genetics.\u00a0 But these blood-based arguments went out of fashion a few generations ago when we saw that they led to things such as pogroms and genocides.\u00a0 Study your history.\u00a0 Yet some of the most powerful people in Japan (in this case the governor of one of the world’s major cities) not only fervently believe it, but also create political parties<\/a> to rally others around it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is beyond pathological racism.\u00a0 This is the febrile insanity of a mean old man who has long since lost control of himself and his grasp of reality after so many years in power.\u00a0 And as evidenced above, he will even encourage xenophobic witch hunts for people on allegations of blood and ethnicity to push a political agenda that has one horrible conclusion:\u00a0 hatred, exclusion, and silencing of others.<\/p>\n

Dietmember Fukushima is right to call it racial discrimination and call for a retraction (and threaten legal action).\u00a0 But she must also make it clear to the public that even if somebody was naturalized, it is not a problem:\u00a0 Naturalized Japanese are real Japanese too.\u00a0 Otherwise there’s no point to naturalization.\u00a0 But for people like Ishihara, that IS the point; as I’ve written before<\/a>, it makes no difference to racists whether or not people become Japanese citizens, despite the protests of those opposing votes for NJ PRs.\u00a0 “If they want the right to vote, they should naturalize” has been and always will be a red herring to genuine xenophobes, so see it for what it is — a Trojan Horse of an argument camouflaging racism as reasonableness.<\/p>\n

These are the people who should be booted from power.\u00a0 Give NJ PRs the vote and we’re one step closer.\u00a0 Don’t, and these bigots only grow stronger.\u00a0 Arudou Debito in Sapporo, naturalized citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tokyo Governor Ishihara’s latest rant has him accusing the ruling parties of having naturalized citizens for ancestors, therefore they want NJ PR suffrage. This latest smear campaign has finally turned Ishihara from a committed politician into a politician who should be committed.<\/p>\n

It hardly bears fully iterating, but: Here we have this dangerous tendency of Ishihara solidifying into a fully-formed ideology, based upon the fundamental tenets that 1) foreigners cannot be trusted, 2) foreigners are always foreigners, even if they are Japanese citizens for generations, 3) foreigners think along blood lines and will work against Japanese interests if their blood is not Japanese. In other words, personal belief is a matter of genetics. But these blood-based arguments went out of fashion a few generations ago when we saw that they led to things such as pogroms and genocides. Yet some of the most powerful people in Japan (in this case the governor of one of the world’s major cities) not only fervently believe it, but also create political parties to rally others around it. <\/p>\n

This is beyond pathological racism. This is the febrile insanity of a mean old man who has long since lost control of himself and his grasp of reality after so many years in power. And as evidenced above, he will even encourage xenophobic witch hunts for people on allegations of blood and ethnicity to push a political agenda that has one horrible conclusion: hatred, exclusion, and silencing of others.<\/p>\n

Dietmember Fukushima is right to call it racial discrimination and call for a retraction (and threaten legal action). But she must also make it clear to the public that even if somebody was naturalized, it is not a problem: Naturalized Japanese are real Japanese too. Otherwise there’s no point to naturalization. But for people like Ishihara, that IS the point; as I’ve written before, it makes no difference to racists whether or not people become Japanese citizens, despite the protests of those opposing votes for NJ PRs. “If they want the right to vote, they should naturalize” has been and always will be a red herring to genuine xenophobes, so see it for what it is — a Trojan Horse of an argument camouflaging racism as reasonableness. <\/p>\n

These are the people who should be booted from power. Give NJ PRs the vote and we’re one step closer. Don’t, and these bigots only grow stronger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,52,12,26,14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-hate-speech","category-immigration-assimilation","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-politics","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564","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=6564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}