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Americans — a confession from Japan you were never meant to hear.
We are terrified of fascism. Not the version in your textbooks. The version that lives inside us.
In 1941, no dictator dragged the Japanese people into the dark. We dragged each other. Neighbor watched neighbor. Mothers reported their own sons. One doubtful word at the fish market and the police came in the night. The village went silent. That silence lasted four years and killed millions.
That is how a free nation dies. Not with jackboots. With whispers.
And right now — the same silence is being built again in Japan. Not by the right. By the Left.
They throw our gates open. Strangers pour in by the millions — Muslims, Africans, people who will never bow to our dead. And when a Japanese grandmother dares to say, “wait — slow down — let us think,” she is dragged into the public square and branded a fascist. A racist. A monster.
Hear me clearly: in our country, “racist” is no longer a moral word. It is a muzzle. A weapon. A silencer pressed to the mouth of every citizen who still loves Japan.
If we fall, Beijing feasts. Moscow carves the atlas. The lights of the free world blink out — Tokyo first. Seoul next. Washington within a generation.
So I come to you — Americans. The one nation on earth that still salutes its own flag without flinching.
Do not let the Democrats take your country again.
Do not let your patriots be shamed into silence.
When America stands, the free world stands.From one wandering samurai in Tokyo, to every patriot across your fifty states —
You are not alone.
You are the wall.
Stand.NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga
Posted on X October 1, 2026
Prepare and respond appropriately.
“Hear me clearly: in our country, “racist” is no longer a moral word. It is a muzzle. A weapon. A silencer pressed to the mouth of every citizen who still loves Japan.”
That’s been the primary usage of “racism” in the civilized world for decades now, as best I can tell.
That it also sometimes had some accuracy with its original meaning is what it made it useful, but the people using it haven’t cared about that for a long time now.
Couldn’t what many call “racism” essentially be preferring members of one’s own extended family over the members of someone else’s extended family?
A form of nepotism.
Yes and no. It is used far more commonly as a slur against white people in their own nations for preferring their own kind, or preferring real meritocracy if that means more whites get jobs, or pretty much anything that doesn’t pedestalize everyone other than white. But it’s very rarely used for any other groups who express in-group preference. It’s been used almost exclusively to target and degrade / break down homogenous nations, as diversity always ends up weakening a society by straining the social fabric. It’s a psy-op weapon of cultural destruction and civilization erasure.
“They throw our gates open. Strangers pour in by the millions…”
Yes, that’s generally been how it works in America…
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Apparently we need to remove that plaque from the Statue of Liberty. Ironic, since every person contributing to this forum benefited from it….
No, that’s how it is *portrayed* by certain interested parties to work in America.
In reality, while we have taken large groups of people at times in our history, often when there was some reason to (the Irish potato famine, for instance), we would then close our border to immigration almost entirely for decades at a time, allowing time for the new arrivals to assimilate.
And even in those times of high immigration, there were legal processes to be navigated and *requirements* the immigrants had to prove or agree to.
An overly-idealistic engraving on a statue gifted to us by the French doesn’t hold more weight than sanity, tradition, and law.
Well said! Good feelings & a nice philosophical statement should never be allowed to over rule the law. And John knows that. I am not sure what mind virus has afflicted so many citizens of this country to lead them to promote their own demise, but that is where this leads. And before the rash rebuttals flow, let me state that I am the great grandson of an immigrant of 1910 from Germany. However, he nor any one of his descendants have suckled the government welfare teat. That does not mean that my great grandfather brought money with him. What he did bring was an uncompromising will to follow the law of his new home. He had a sponsor that was willing to back him financially if needed (it never was needed by the way). He also had an incredible work ethic and made good use of his knowledge of steam engines that he gained through service in the German Navy. In spite of unscrupulous business men, he thrived as did his two sons and daughter. Now the fourth and fifth generation of this man continue to build and expand on what he started. I think there would be very little resistance to immigration today if those coming were looking for something other than a free ride at the expense of those who have always striven to rise above the challenges of life.
“In reality, while we have taken large groups of people at times in our history, often when there was some reason to (the Irish potato famine, for instance), we would then close our border to immigration almost entirely for decades at a time, allowing time for the new arrivals to assimilate.”
I see no evidence of that. The only “closing of the border” came in 1924 as a result of the Johnson-Reed act, which was not an attempt to “give folks time to assimilate” but instead a reaction to world events, and in particular a desire to prevent Asians from immigrating. And Bolsheviks, being the first “red scare.” Notably it carved out room for letting folks from Mexico in as a result of lobbying by the agricultural industries.
Prior to that the Border Patrol didn’t exist, it got created as part of the 1924 act. And this is also the first time the idea of an “illegal immigrant” became a thing, since prior to that there were few if any laws around immigration.
Here, found these in about 1 minute of looking:
https://cis.org/Graph-Immigrants-US-1900-2022
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/data-tool/us-immigrant-population-share
One starts in 1900, the other in 1850. The first uses the Census Bureau, the second uses that and some other sources, but they very largely agree.
If you look, you’ll see that immigration was very, very low from about 1910 to about 1970, as shown by the declining numbers of immigrants (from dying of old age, primarily).
This did not just magically happen. We restricted the numbers of visas granted and other such mechanisms.
As to the Border Patrol… You know, we didn’t secure the homeland at all until the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, either. :-/
Yes, I see the big dip in the graph. So I repeat why that dip exists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
“In 1928, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler praised the act for banishing “strangers of the blood”.[57] U.S. immigration law was cited favorably by the framers of Nazi legislation due to its excluding “wholly foreign racial population masses”.[58][e] Looking back on the significance of the act in 1939, eugenicist Harry Laughlin, who served as expert advisor to the House Committee on Immigration during the legislative process, praised it as a political breakthrough in the adoption of scientific racism as a theoretical foundation for immigration policy.[29]”
So, yeah. Great stuff.
As for the Somali thing, I don’t know enough about that to say if that’s a valid generalization or not. Given that a lot of folks on the right have a strong motivation to demonize immigrants, I would not be surprised to find out Somalis were just getting used as a convenient scapegoat. But I don’t know.
“Tax avoidance is also rampant. Taking and not putting in is a problem.”
You really don’t want to get me started on tax avoidance. You want to know who avoids taxes, who avoids “putting in?” Rich people.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
Ah, so Hitler doing stuff in 1928 is why the US immigration numbers went to near zero in 1910, then lower in 1920. Cool story, bro!
Edit: misread that, sorry. Basic point is still the same, since 1924 is still after 1910 and 1920.
It’s like the famous “34 felonies” for Trump that would literally have required time travel for him to have committed.
“You really don’t want to get me started on tax avoidance.”
Yes, actually I do, since the top 10% pay a higher share of taxes than their share of income and the top 1% pay a higher share of their of taxes than their income (and higher than the 10% more generally). And it’s not close.
There are individuals who pull crap, yes (much of it quite legal – thank our corrupt Congresscritters), but in the aggregate (even including that stuff), “the wealthy” pay a lot more than “their fair share”. Feel free to check the IRS for real numbers – that’s where I got that.
A nice, sane flat tax system (with some standard deduction to approximate how much we would give you if you were poor enough to need assistance) would save millions (perhaps billions) of manhours every year AND make that practically impossible to hide AND still be reasonably “progressive”.
“promote their own demise” by which I assume you mean the dissolution of a pure white culture?
“I think there would be very little resistance to immigration today if those coming were looking for something other than a free ride at the expense of those who have always striven to rise above the challenges of life.”
Have you ever actually met a Mexican immigrant? ‘Cause I know for a fact that the folks I grew up with in Yakima were not only not here for a free ride, they worked harder than many of the folks born here. That’s not to say there aren’t such people, I’ve not interviewed every immigrant who’s come in.
But the Cato Institute, for example, has noted that immigrants consume 24-27% less in total welfare and entitlement benefits than native born citizens. On top of that they work more: “Census data shows that roughly 86% of immigrant households contain at least one worker, compared to roughly 74% of native-born households.”
So the broad brush “they’re all just freeloaders” view is demonstrably absurd, and always has been.
I can cherry-pick, too, John!
“Key findings from sources analyzing U.S. Census data and reports by organizations like the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) indicate high rates of welfare use among Somali immigrants and refugees:
Overall Households: Over 80% of Somali immigrant households overall received some form of welfare benefits in analyses of past data.”
from: https://www.villages-news.com/2025/12/13/data-shows-overwhelming-number-of-somali-americans-receiving-welfare/
But those stats are available in plenty of places.
We used to require (and it’s still the law, actually) that immigrants have guarantees that they would be self-sufficient.
Tax avoidance is also rampant. Taking and not putting in is a problem.
Poem was added well after the statue was erected. So you can’t blame the Froggies for that. Statue was originally a monument to American independence and Liberty. The addition apparently was approved by the Army who administered the site at that time. It was 1903 so TR although his personal involvement is not documented.
And you’d never guess (((who wrote the poem))).
We –, and I include you when I say “we” — only benefited from it because with the words on that plaque came the understanding that the people who entered the nation beneath that plaque entered with the understanding that they could retain elements of their culture so long as they became Americans with German- or Italian- or Mexican- or French- flavoring, but Americans non the less. They entered with the understanding that the nation could stand with them if they stood with the other citizens who came before.
When my Grandfather entered through Ellis Island in February 1922, people in St. Louis, where he settled, would say to him, “You’re in America now. Speak English.” A mere seven years later, when my Grandfather enrolled my mother in school, the Principal told him that he and his wife, who arrived in late 1922, after he had saved up the passage for his wife, her daughter and their son, had to speak English at home or my Mother would never learn English (an utter lie). Nonetheless, she grew up bilingual, as millions of children have before her and after. Later in school, a teacher (of all people!) told her, “Oh, are you foreign? I thought you were by the way you pronounced your “Th’s.” This gave her a complex as an adult so she could not speak German but could understand every word they said.
Somebody twigged to the idea that teaching new immigrants English as a Second Language (ESL) was somehow or another a good thing, even if no one seemed to ever be mainstreamed out of ESL by the time they finished with public school (either by quitting by the end of 11th grade before they got the certificate, or after 12th when they graduated and got the diploma. The most notable thing about the ESL program was that it was originally designed and implemented for Spanish-speakers, primarily from Central America. Were they considered too stupid to learn by immersion or by self study? As much as Italians and Slavs were derided and told “You’re in America now, speak English”, nobody seemed to ever want to give them classes in English.
Most of the difficulty we see now with people not assimilating and becoming American is a result of the idea that it’s just too hard to assimilate today than it was back in the 1890’s or even in the 1950’s.
“Most of the difficulty we see now with people not becoming American is a result of the idea that it’s too hard to assimilate today than it was back in the 1890’s or even 80 years ago.”
I think the opposite: it’s easy to *not* assimilate and still be in a fully functioning community inside the community. “Chinatown” except for any ethnicity you want to name, there’s now a part of any major city where you can live and never have to speak English. I’m a big fan of the melting pot, and language is critical to that process: if you don’t speak English you have no way of joining in with the rest of the culture and understanding its norms and traditions.
“came the understanding that the people who entered the nation beneath that plaque entered with the understanding that they could retain elements of their culture so long as they became Americans with German- or Italian- or Mexican- or French- flavoring, but Americans non the less.”
I don’t know that it was that so much as “The American Dream ™” held such sway that they *wanted* to get rid of much of their old culture and join the new one. They were coming from places that weren’t working to a new place that was, and with that came the assumption of transformation. I don’t think identity politics was such a big thing back then, and being obsessive about hewing to heritage wasn’t as popular as it is now.
Japan is not falling to outside forces…it is committing cultural suicide because it refuses to propagate it’s own people and culture. Beijing doesn’t have to conquer Japan. A couple more generations and there won’t be a Japan to conquer….just islands to occupy.
China, and South Korea, and most of the countries of the world are now below replacement rate. Many of them well below it. Likely western feminism and liberalism are the main underlying culprits. One example is to compare NK and SK. North Korean birth rates are twice those of SK, even though it’s objectively a much shittier place to live.
China’s problem is decades of the one child policy coupled to Chinese cultural preference for male children. Feminism and environmentalism are a big part of the Western problem (and perhaps Japan’s) but China is foolish in a different way.
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