News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train. Parent comment

Re:The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train by ng12 on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:38AM (#21341935)
Is that form of racism still bad if it's culturally accepted? There are places in the world where it is not only culturally but legally encoded that non-natives are second class citizens. Should those places be denied the opportunity to self-determine that policy?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train by RaiseProfits on Thursday October 24, 2019 @02:24AM (#21342155)
This is only one facet of a common problem that virtually every people on earth deals with. Is it so hard to acknowledge?

> There are places in the world where it is not only culturally but legally encoded that non-natives are second class citizens.

Hell, in Israel you can even be a native and be a second class citizen. I wouldn’t look to these countries as role models for human rights, though.

[ Parent | on HN ]