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Funny how it’s never the upper class that has to give.

As they fucking should. Identity theft is no joke.

Israel has been attacking long before 10/7. This is a conflict that’s been going on for longer than pretty much everyone here has been alive

It’s not whataboutism to point out the fact that barbaric acts have been going both ways for a long fucking time.

Raping, murdering, taking hostages is never a workable solution to any problem.

Who is even arguing this?

I’m sure the Palestinians don’t want to live next to people that want to do, and have done, the same and much more to them.

Omg that good boy is so hypnotic!

They’re being forced, by nothing more than the mere reality of their situation, to accept outside culture because their societal failures have led to their own population death spiral.

No one forced their hand or made them take on such damaging traditions and policies. No one is forcing the Japanese to take on elements of other cultures.

Try doing a bit of research before spouting nonsense theories.

Right but the history behind Native American beauty pageants takes place in the aftermath of ethnic cleansing and subjugation. You simply can’t divorce the two subjects because they affected everything in their culture and way of life.

Ethnic cleansing, put simply, is the form the whitewashing took form of, and it took everything from the Native Americans. Their homes, their land, their history, their identity, their cultures were either all gone or held on by a thread.

It has taken so fucking long for them to rebuild even a fraction of what they had, and the pageants were part of that process, an attempt to rebuild an ethnic identity from the ashes.

Japan never had that history. The Japanese were not nearly wiped out by European colonialists, they were not hunted to the point of extinction and cultural death. Their issues right now stem from their own societal failures.

So when you invoke native American history as a comparison, you should consider the context. In your example, it would be understandable that people might be offended if a white person won a native American beauty pageant because their entire race and culture was pretty much completely wiped out by white people, and this could be seen as someone trying to take yet another thing from them.

Japan doesn’t have that history with white people, so that comparison with Native Americans simply does not stand, and trying to make it stand is kinda belittling to the native Americans.

It’s absolutely insane, especially when it comes from those who claim to want to preserve ethnic identities.

If they’re gonna invoke other national identities in conversation, the least they could do is learn about them. If anything drawing comparisons to ethnic cleansing over a fucking beauty pageant is more insensitive than pretty much anything else in this thread.

Other than their connotations that someone cannot be a real Japanese because of their skin colour, that reminds me a bit about America’s history of treating black people.

Have you considered maybe that the Japanese are nothing like the Native Americans, and that what’s happening in Japan has nothing to do with racism against the Japanese?

Oh fucking get over yourself.

The Japanese are hardly an oppressed people, at least by outsiders. They’re a first world country. With their own customs and culture.

The only dangers to their identity have been those of their own societal making.

Japan’s native population has been in critical freefall for a long time not because of any white person interference, but because their culture has become increasingly incompatible with family life for a significant amount of their population. If you thought America had an out-of-whack work culture, your jaw would hit the floor when you see what salarymen and salarywomen over there go through.

It’s not like they’ve been pushed out by a colonial force with some manifest destiny bullshit. The problem here simply isn’t whitey.

Military job == military target. That means their place of work is a lot more liable to be bombed or attacked, and they’re going to have to be able to react quickly in order to move to safety, possibly including personal firearms training.

That is NOT a small shift. Let’s do some basic math.

In a population of 1 million, 1% is 10,000.

The 2022 population estimate by the US gov is 3 million on the west bank and 2 million on Gaza strip.

So even if we only talk about the Gaza strip, that’s 20,000 Gazans dead.

That’s equivalent to 6.6 9/11 tragedies in the space of 4 months. 9/11 had a fatality rate of 3000-odd.

Add in the west bank and that’s 50,000 dead. In four. Fucking. Months. That is the population of a decent sized city, just gone.

It’s almost like you don’t hear about people in other classes because unless they commit some particularly heinous instance or attack a large number of kids, that shit is basically reported on once and forgotten.

There’s a decent number of pedos among all classes, but the rich ones can get away with it easier

What a lovely Kittie! So sad :( RIP

Ooo boy, time to fire up my GPS spoofer!

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Yes dude.

The point isn’t that the museum is responding to some fuckwit mayor, that’s just a minor detail.

The point is that they’re saying anything at all and making their position loud and clear, when up until now they’ve stayed silent.

I’d love to be charitable to them but by god they make it hard