My response to a 457 word screed by "Steve Jackman" to this Japan Times article
pointing out factual errors in his post was held up for "approval" when I posted it and was gone minutes later.
Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by The Japan Times.
Imperial Japan was explicitly multicultural and multi-ethnic. If you add in Manchuria, it was also explicitly multi-racial.
The US is multi-racial and multi-ethnic only at the national level. US cities are very segregated by race and to only a slightly lesser extent by ethnicity.
If there is a problem with the term kokumin, blame the US. It wrote our constitution.
Having laws against discrimination in no way prevents it. There is voluminous evidence on this point from the US.
I and others have long wondered whether "Steve Jackman" is a Japan Times insider. His posts appear almost instantaenously when the JT puts an article on the Internet.
His posts are often longer than the original article.
His posts are highly repetitive. Some are cut and paste from his previous posts.
Even if he is not a Japan Times insider, he clearly enjoys preferential treatment.
That he is a JT insider is the only explanation I can come up with for him not having been banned years ago. He's constantly posting racist/trolling/disingenuous/harassing remarks, and yet he's still around, while I was once temporarily blocked from posting just because I called a columnist out for a homophobic remark on their blog.
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for example, he made sweeping statements about Japan's translation industry (an industry I work in and understand FAIRLY well) that I could see were clearly wrong, and when I asked where he got his information he essentially claimed that friends of friends had told him -- I wouldn't be surprised if said friends were JT staffers who had interviewed people in the industry and got the wrong idea. We know that JT have fairly low editorial standards, given how many times they've repeated the same fundamental error:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ajapantimes.co.jp+%22oldest%22+%22Manyoshu%22&rlz=1C1SQJL_jaFR810FR810&oq=site%3Ajapantimes.co.jp+%22oldest%22+%22Manyoshu%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.9894j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I also think he is an insider or the english language moderators are his friends (at least in spirit). Basically he thinks Japan is a bad evil racist country. If you argue against this your posts disappear. Best thing was that he went nuts when he "found out" that I am half Japanese. He said I should have provided this info before discussing anything relating to so called "racism" in Japan. Very strange place.
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