
“How about white farmers in South Africa?”. The same ones who either benefited or were directly involved in Apartheid? The colonization of South Africa? Or the ones that live in a country that has been going through a consistent femicide, much higher than the “targeted attack” you speak of, for YEARS? You don't care about the farmers.
The same groups are going after Muslim Nigerians who aren’t extremists. It’s not a problem of just Christians being targeted like the right wing is framing it. The problem is religious fundamentalists going after EVERYONE including non-fundamentalist members of their own religion.
The way I see it they still deny what they did and that it ever happened reinforcing their stance of oppression and denial of genocide. So as someone with ancestors that survived those events I should retain the right to call a Jap a Jap. It’s not like the Chinese were the ones putting them in concentration camps. That was the Americans
They were descendants of Europeans who came to South Africa. “Before the Blacks who rule it now”? White South Africans are STILL descendants of “settlers” who came to that country. They weren't originally from there - and the crazy part is, they came to ESCAPE discrimination and unjust practices - just to practice those SAME European prejudices on the Black population.
This doesn't negate what I just said. Even relating to European Americans, some have been in these countries for hundreds of years, escaping their previous forms of prejudice in European countries or the British. They still come to countries, that originate from POC/Black people and perpetuate those same discriminatory tactics. “Afrikaans”, “Boers” - each has direct descendants from European bloodlines.
Like I actually totally agree that Japan has done basically nothing to acknowledge their role as a violent colonizing war machine in the 20th century and that it’s a huge problem. That doesn’t make it ok to use a racial slur created by another violent colonizing war machine. It’s also true that it’s fundamentally a racial slur, when you use it that’s causing harm to people like Japanese diaspora who were not involved in the atrocities and were often racialized victims themselves
“Against other groups” within the context of the American socio-political climate Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, … are generally all grouped into “Asians” so I don’t see how a black person with ancestors from Kenya calling another black person with ancestors from Nigeria a N***a is different than one Asian calling another a slur. Mind you N***a originates from N****r which is what the white man used to oppress the slaves. I fail to see the difference here
Igbo people were genocided in the Biafran war. The genocidal scorched earth campaigns by Boko Haram (funded by the west to destabilize Nigeria) is against all Nigerians, not just Christians. Nigerian Christians don’t like you trying to divide them and muslims but it’s smth that yall white people do to all racialized christians and their muslim kin. Muslims are also being killed and technically because they’ve targeted areas where muslim populations are incidentally higher @ 1st, + Muslims killed