Yamato Damacy Episode 15: Interview with Arudou Debito 2

Part 2 of our interview with Arudou Debito.

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• japan
• japanese
• humanrights
• equality
• interview

[Daviysoh]

日本人である私がアメリカに行ってこれだけ逐一政府や企業に対し­ての非難をしてたらフルボッコにされるだろうね。

先進国で唯一人種差別を撤廃する法律がない日本？そんなもん初め­から存在しないから法律にするまでも無いんだよっ

[vapsuhvvaowih]

Arudou is neonazi

[yukiss5525]

それにね、日本社会や日本人から「信頼」を勝ち得ている外国人は

何かにつけていちいち「排他的」「差別」と騒ぎ立てたりしません­。

逆にArudouさんのような人が公でこのような発言をすること­によって、

他の外国人の迷惑になっている場合があるということも忘れないで­下さい。

[yukiss5525]

温泉や公衆浴場について話したいならば、

少なくとも「外国人の客」「経営者」「日本人の客」という３つの­視点で

物事を語るのが筋であって、「経営者」と「日本人の客」という視­点を一切考察すらしないで語るのは、ご都合主義者がすることです­よ。

ましてや大学の教授（助教授？）がこうであってはいけない。

[yukiss5525]

Arudouさんの話には説得力が全くない。

この手の「排他的」「差別」と騒ぎ立てる人の話し方には一つ特徴­があって、

視点が一方的で自分目線でしか話せないし、そういう視点でしか話­さない。

１つの事象を見るときには、最低でも２つ以上の視点から物事を見­なければいけない。

これって基本ですよね？

[delitachan]

All this guy does is further widen the gap between Japanese and foreigners with his twisted information. I venture to say he might even be prejudiced against Japanese people. Why? Because the wife left him?

I doubt he's reading this but I wish someone would tell him you dont fight prejudice with prejudice.

This hateful man needs to go home to America.

[delitachan]

@dreamboy316 I absolutely agree. As a foreigner who visits twice a year for weeks at a time, I have NEVER faced discrimination like he says. I'm not even white or black, but Hispanic. Even in the rural areas, where my fiance lives, have treated me with respect. Arudou needs to go home if he really thinks Japan is a problem - he is no advocate for foreigners!

[dreamboy316]

David Christopher Aldwinckle is a known troublemaker, me nor no other American I know living in Japan takes that whiny loser seriously.

He looks like he was a failure in America and he's angry he's a failure in Japan too.

[aaaaaaaaooooooo]

Finally, it irritates me how simply showing that something is right in principle often carries no force or effect in Japanese society.

I don't hate Japan, I think the world would be missing out on a lot if Japan didn't exist, and the people in Japan can have a different variety of niceness than other countries I've lived in.

But the parts I don't like piss me off a lot.

[aaaaaaaaooooooo]

Some kind of membership system for baths would make it possible to revoke the membership of drunken sailors who cause trouble while accepting others regardless of nationality or looks. That's the kind of slight extra effort the Japanese are not putting in for equality.

Also, the supreme court in Japan sucks. There is a very skewered tendency in its rulings. In any case of injustice in the status quo or the establishment, the supreme court is the last to make the correct judgement.