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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese"
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In article <uunqht$152al$1@dont-email.me>,
 super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

> On 2024-04-05 00:03:47 +0000, FPP said:

> > So you'd be OK with higher taxes to fix our problems at home, right?
> > Because that's how things work.
> 
> Tokyo has 14 million people, I doubt "everywhere you go" is so clean it 
> would pass a Drill Sergeant's inspection (google "Tokyo slums" if you 
> don't believe me).
> 
> Kimmel's rant fits in well with our homegrown rightwingers' racist dog 
> whistle about "dirty Blue-run cities" though.

How exactly is it racist to point out how filthy and trash-strewn and 
graffiti-covered the blue cities are?