Thread by @aino87445630

@kim_siever

https://twitter.com/kim_siever/status/1382839801892675585?s=20

Because when talking about Racism in Western societies,you used Japan's annexation of Korea as an example.
This is completely wrong as a metaphor.

@kim_siever You seem to be unable to understand that racism in your country is a completely different story from the choices made between 2 nations during the imperialist era.

@kim_siever The US annexed Hawaii by force.
But Japan did not annex Korea by force, but by Treaty.
This is completely different from the story of the West's armed conquest of Asia, Africa,South America

@kim_siever

https://twitter.com/kim_siever/status/1382843169839091713?s=20

In Korea, where 40％of the population were slaves, 90% were illiterate,Korean intellectuals, keenly aware of the need for modernization, pleaded for annexation to Japan in order to survive.
You did not know this fact and denounce Japan as a racist.

@kim_siever

https://twitter.com/kim_siever/status/1382843808627363846?s=20

It is a fact that Korea and Taiwan were able to become the world's leading industrial nations because Japan educated the people of the annexed areas as it's citizens.
This is not called colonization.

@kim_siever There is no first-rate industrial country among the colonies of the West.
Because the West treated the people of those areas as slaves for 300 years and did not give them education.

@kim_siever The story of the indigenous peoples of Canada, the US and Australia is not even a story of colonization.

Europeans massacred Aboriginals and Native Americans and took their land.

@kim_siever Europeans did not consider Aboriginals to be human beings.

@kim_siever

https://twitter.com/kim_siever/status/1382845575725412353?s=20

Doyou think it's healthy that 40% of the population to be slaves and subject to trading?

It was the Koreans who discriminated against the Koreans, not treated Koreans as the same human being.

@kim_siever The Japanese abolished slavery in Korea, gave citizenship to the slaves, gave them family names, and gave them education.
Are you saying that it was a bad thing?

@kim_siever The intellectuals of Korea gave up on modernization on their own and left it to Japan because 90% of the people were illiterate.
If they can't read, they can't know anything in the first place.

@kim_siever

https://twitter.com/kim_siever/status/1382845576836837376?s=20

To say that" Okinawa was colonized !" is the very argument by China who claim that the Okinawans are a different ethnic from the Japanese and therefore belong to China.

@kim_siever Just ask the Okinawans.
Did they deny that the people of Okinawa are Japanese?
Are they claiming that they want to secede from Japan?
The Okinawa is just a place where the Jomon Japanese settled and they are speaking Japanese language

@kim_siever

https://twitter.com/kim_siever/status/1382845578069962752?s=20

Heve the Taiwanese ever accused Japan?
President Lee Teng-hui says,
"The Japanese never discriminated against Taiwanese. Thanks to Japan, Taiwanese were able to receive education and enjoy a civilized life.
The same is true for Palau.
Can you deny it?

@kim_siever Have the people of Palau ever denounced Japan?
Why do Palauans still use Japanese words?
Why does Palau use the same design and different colors as Japan flag as its flag?

https://twitter.com/kim_siever/status/1382845579122806786?s=20

@kim_siever Because Japan treated Palauans as it's Ciitizens.

Meanwhile the areas under Western control don't take kindly to the former suzerainty, do they?

@kim_siever Because Westerners treated locals just as slaves for 300 years, as a God ,Whites raped the local women whenever they want to, and most of them are mixed race with Whites in Asia and South America.

@kim_siever

https://twitter.com/kim_siever/status/1382845580192350208?s=20

You seem to think that the US, Canada, and Australia are the world, but in the world, these 3 countries are exceptional man-made and experimental nations.

In general, a state is a home for people who share the same ethnicity, culture, and history.

@kim_siever If the whole world were to become a racially mixed nation like the US Canada, and Australia, cultural diversity would disappear from the world.

@kim_siever Racism is inevitable when you go against nature and force people of different races and from different countries who don't share the same culture and history to come together and put them in one place.

@kim_siever

https://twitter.com/kim_siever/status/1382850503134965760?s=20

This is because You quoted Japan in the wrong context without knowing any Asian history in the first place.

If you want to be a journalist, you should study some basic history before tweeting.