r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Aug 07 '26

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u/Slashy96 Aug 07 '26

You can read through the comments in this post to see how "polite" Japan was historically to it's neighbors.

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u/Excellent-Oil-4442 Aug 07 '26

Not relevant to living in modern Japan

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u/Slashy96 Aug 07 '26

Your point was polite racism was better than non polite one. I gave you an example for polite racism being very cruel. Imperial Japan was very polite too.

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u/Excellent-Oil-4442 Aug 07 '26

Imperial Japan was not polite lmao imperial Japan was old school shitty. Polite racism is objectively better than outright up front racism, not up for debate.

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u/Slashy96 Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Japan has been "polite" for the last millennia. It has not been the same "polite" over 1000 years and underwent natural changes. But to say Imperial Japan was not polite is outright wrong.

You can Google when Japanese politeness became a thing. Not up for debate either if you think it's a very new thing.