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Originally Posted by Mord
Dude. It's both. It's being denied housing and bank accounts because you're not Japanese. And it's being harassed and detained (or arrested) by police just because you're not Japanese and happen to be out late at night (and therefore automatically up to no good).
The J-cops can keep you for 520 days, and they don't have to tell anyone. You just vanish one day.
Oh, you don't have your foreign residence card on you when the cop asks for it? They can haul you away and not tell your family or employer where you are for 520 days.
This is what I'm talking about. That shit would never happen in the States, this place you guys keep saying is super racist. It's not. It's mildly racist.
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We're still in the middle of it, but JWB and myself have had a pretty good conversation so far regarding what 'racism' is. I'm of the mind that racism necessarily has a political/social control element that can't be exercised by minority groups and that prejudice is what is felt by everyone, regardless of social or political strata. Mord's anecdotes here go along way toward strengthening my position.
Once we either reach consensus or go as far as the conversation takes us, I'll publish the relevant sections on here (provided JWB is OK with it). Might be illuminating for others.