Word of Power Levels of the Rising Sun

Deplorable Yankee · Sep 4, 2025

Word of Power Levels of the Rising Sun

Japan taught me racism in the nicest possible way

One of the more amusing misconceptions that white liberals cleave to is that ‘racism’ is a function of ignorance. Lack of exposure to other peoples leads to the proliferation of stereotypes based on distorted third-hand information, which then curdles into ‘hatred’, ‘bigotry’, ‘xenophobia’, and all the rest of the mean scary words. Thus the perennial liberal imperative “Educate yourself!” whenever they encounter someone making a general statement about a group, which of course is what is meant by ‘racism’. “Danes are taller than Italians.” “Oh my God you eugenicist that isn’t true I know an Italian man who’s six foot three so you’re just wrong, why do you want to genocide Italians?”

As with virtually everything liberals believe, the truth of the matter is the precise opposite. Stereotypes are the result of extended contact between groups, and amount in practice to the boiled down residue of the averaged experience of the members of one group with the representatives of another. Far from being misleading, they are almost invariably highly accurate as regards the means of group traits and behaviours. Stereotype accuracy is one of the most replicated findings in the social sciences, which stands in stark repudiation to the mandatory superstition that stereotypes are wrong. This is the real stereotype threat.

Stereotypes don’t necessarily have to involve ‘hate’, although it is true that they very often do. Hate tends to develop if the averaged experiences of one group with another are overwhelmingly negative. Since human groups in close proximity to one another have a tendency to violently jostle against one another, competing for territory and resources, neighbouring groups will tend to have both the most accurate stereotypes of one another, and the lowest opinions of one another. Familiarity breeds contempt, as they say. As they also say, good fences make good neighbours, which is why the borders of nation-states are an important Chesterton’s Fence. This is why when those good fences gets torn down, they tend to be re-erected, sometimes in a rather messy fashion.