Hector Martin

My point is that white people dont get discriminated against for being white specifically - just for not being Japanese. whereas black/Arab/Indian gaijin have specific prejudices tied to them being black/Arab/Indian so while I do get what you’re saying that’s not it

But that's like saying "black people don't get discriminated against for their race, just for <stat correlated with race>" when they are racially profiled. My point is it's still a kind of racism when race is what you're using to profile people, even if not the ultimate factor.

Nope, not the same. I've been straight up told by MANY Japanese people that I'm "a good foreigner" because I'm WHITE, THIN, PRETTY & POLITE. I'm pretty sure polite gets thrown in because they perceive me doing something differently than they would if I were Black, or Chinese, etc

I do know a white girl who was pretty brutally attacked by a Japanese man, and she even says that what he was screaming while he hit her was vile insults about women and foreigners. He never called her white.

*Calling* people by their race is not a necessary condition of being racist. Yes, Japanese people don't call foreigners they hate "white", but they're still looking at the color of their skin, then deciding they're a foreigner because of it, prior to invoking the hate.

Conversely, any foreigner that passes for Japanese (e.g. of Japanese ancestry) is not going to be discriminated against until they make their foreignness evident.

which is still xenophobia. Japanese racism is focused on anyone that isn't full Japanese AND is darker than white. Half white Japanese girls become models, half Black Japanese girls are bullied and told they're ugly. Japanese girls are raised on skin-lightening products

they may treat white people differently than they treat other Japanese, but they hold white people up as the standard of beauty and in many ways, as the model minority