Damn, I wish the only taste of "racism" I experienced was a Japanese local telling me 日本語上手ですね.

It must be so hard, being the right shade of "international" here...

Mayojin keep on being mayojin. I can't relate.

How delusional do you have to be to consider this as an experience of prejudice during the pandemic?

FYI this is referring to a tweet that someone made (which they made private) about how they experienced the true plight of a racial minority + an immigrant when someone at their post office complimented their 日本語.

A minor annoyance & racial oppression are very diff things.

I feel like this week's episode of English-speaking Japanese Twitter is coming from folks who didn't have a chance to read the original tweet that everyone had been subtweeting or quoting on because it's no longer available...so now they're going off on tangents.

J-Twitter had this discussion before, and they'll probably have it again when someone else makes a similar comment.

There is definitely a hierarchy of non-Japanese races and nationalities in not only this country, but in Asia in general.

The people who feel overwhelmed by the slightest inconvenience or differential treatment have never been a minority in their own country before.

If you have a non-Western nationality and/or a darker complexion, you'll have a harder time feeling accepted here than to your peers.

If you are not a native English-speaker, you will have harder experiences here than your peers.

If you are not a man, you will have less societal advantages than your peers.

This is a spectrum. Not all foreigners here are perceived the same way. Period.

I'm not a white resident but I am American and speak American English. That has definitely given me some advantages here compared to residents who don't have that identity.

If you have these societal advantages, use it to help those who may not have the same agency.

If you're reading about someone else's lived experiences with actual oppression, appreciate the fact that you're getting access to this perspective for free. It's informative.

If someone labels a minor inconvenience as oppression, it's dismissing the true victims of the system.

Anyways, I'm going to mute this thread. I'd rather invest my energy in the chronicles of Shacho.