":If you're familiar with all these points, then it's unclear why you keep insisting that it should go in the lead and not simply in a very small portion (i.e., one short sentence in the body of the text) as attributed (see WP:ATT) to the author? If these 2 academics (let's put aside the journalist's op-ed for a moment), don't actually say ""Gaijin has a racial aspect,"" why would you want it in the lead in the first place? Original synthesis says that someone takes fact A, combines it fact B, and then produce C. It's still unclear to me what you have described isn't fringe original synthesis. As for Endroit's suggestion (above) that we invoke attribution (and all the work that attribution entails), I'm beginning to think that this is the only way to resolve this issue in a responsible manner. I've put it off until now because it is a God-awful amount of work for one person, and Slp1 was kind enough to get us half way there, but it's still missing major portions of the cited materials from reputable sources. Best,   

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