Parts of White America have decided they don’t like a Japanese woman whose English is poor telling them they have way too much shit in their homes.

“What is it about the queen of clean that makes people so consistently messy?” —@ubeempress on the racist backlash against Marie Kondo https://t.co/2RUU6ODeez

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 8, 2019

As the article notes, white people telling other people to downsize and be minimalists don’t receive nearly the same kind of animosity as Ms Kondo has. In fact, they are admired and adored, even if people eventually ignore their advice.