Biden calls U.S. ally Japan 'xenophobic,' along with China and Russia
President Joe Biden said that the U.S. economy was growing “because we welcome immigrants” and that other countries were held back economically by anti-immigration policies.
“Think about it,” he said. “Why is China stalling so bad economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia?”
“Because they’re xenophobic,” he said. “They don’t want immigrants.”
Show me what he said that was incorrect.
Japan has never welcomed immigrants, and they’ve been hovering on the brink of recession since 1990. Of the three countries he mentioned, Japan is probably suffering the most economically because of their lack of immigrant labor (while China and Russia are suffering for other reasons in addition to their lack of immigrants).
This is one thing I actually like about Biden: He sometimes says weird shit out loud that's not actually wrong, but isn't something that people in politics will ever say for obvious reasons.
E.g. the interview where he said we might have to get rid of Erdogan, or the thing of if you support Trump "you ain't black," or this. It is the honest version of "He tells it like it is!" that idiots say about Trump. He really does just open his mouth sometimes and some weird honest shit comes out. It's very unusual for a politician.
Yeah, I'm having trouble identifying the falsehood. Japan's awesome in many ways, but they still have a long way to go to combat xenophobia there.
Yeah, I read the headline and my first thought was "and? Japan is practically legendary for xenophobia". Talk with literally anyone who doesn't look Japanese who has spent any time in Japan and they'll have at least one story of a time they were discriminated against for not "being Japanese" even if they've lived there their entire lives. They're usually fairly polite about it, but they're absolutely xenophobic (with a healthy dose of low key racism).
I mean yeah but glass houses my dude
He's not wrong. But you know, there are some things you just don't say. I don't call my wife fat.
