3 foreign born men sue Japanese police for racial profiling
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On some level it's because every time someone does that, it's inevitably a prelude to a mouth breather going off about the glories of communism. There isn't space in the mental model for a third option in that competition right now, same as how our political parties are limited to just Democrat vs Republican. Black and White thinking is easy and no one's doing the legwork to crowbar in the idea that other options even exist.
It's a semantic argument. When they say "muh capitalism" they always mean things like profit taking, private property, investing - aka Basic Economics.
If they said things like Corporatism, banking, mortgages, usury, Gordon Gecko nonsense, we could come together on principle. Occupy Wall Street was the inflection point.