In your example I would say his anger is reasonable even while it is being misdirected. I can empathize with that expression of anger even if it is ultimately

In your example I would say his anger is reasonable even while it is being misdirected. I can empathize with that expression of anger even if it is ultimately misguided, counter productive, and ultimately probably feeding and perpetuating the racist stereo type. While the Japanese person in Japan being racist against this non-Japanese person and seeking him out to beat him up deserves no such empathy. This person would be the more misguided of the two and is the racist initiator. The two are simply not equivalent. I'm pointing out that people think it's an equivalence relation based upon commutivity of the races, and that is wrong. Racists say "see they're being racist too" as if they are equivalent. They aren't.