NYT: Jeremy O. Harris Is Arrested in Japan on Suspicion of Smuggling Drugs- Page 3

[blug]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 2:43pm

To those delighting in this:

How do you think a gay black man will be treated in a Japanese prison?

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 2:58pm

blug said: "To those delighting in this:

How do you think a gay black man will be treated in a Japanese prison?"

 

Why are you acting like he was framed?

Jeremy O. Harris is an incredibly entitled and mean spirited person, and I know this from my own personal experience, long before he was "famous." If people are delighting in this, it is certainly due to a feeling that maybe karma is, in fact, real. We are living in a time where the rich and famous have zero consequences for any unlawful or immoral actions. If you have money or power, it seems you can get away with anything. It is weighing heavily on the psyche of this country, thanks to our commander in chief.

He completely ignored the laws and culture of another country and is now suffering the consequences. He is not above the law. Spare us your tiny violin - he brought this upon himself.

He isn't Leo Frank.

 

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 3:21pm

kdogg36 said: "quizking101 said: "I will never understand why people think it’s okay to bring illicitsubstances across international borders while traveling."

And I will never understand why anyone would think it's okay to throw someone in a cage because they're carrying... well, whatever the **** they want to carry as long as it's not actively hurting you."

 

Supporting murderous drug gangs actively hurts a lot of people though.

 

[quizking101]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 3:24pm

blug said: "To those delighting in this:

How do you think a gay black man will be treated in a Japanese prison?"

Who knows and/or cares? He’s not in prison because of his race or sexual orientation or anything that would indicate as such.

I mean, if he was caught in the U.S, he would likely be subject to a far more severe penalty under Schedule I federal trafficking guidelines (unless he pulled some strings)

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/Trafficking%20Penalties.pdf

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 3:27pm

blug said: "To those delighting in this:

How do you think a gay black man will be treated in a Japanese prison?"

Japan hates anyone who breaks their laws, regardless of citizenship. They see it as the ultimate act of disrespect and their criminal justice system reflects that. My cousin went to Japan for work, and he was told his medical marijuana for Epilepsy (Epidiolex) was permitted. Seeing how he went at the end of 2023 (when it was just passed), he was detained for a month before verifying everything was legal.

Bringing any drugs into Japan of all places is the worst thing anyone can do considering their history with amphetamines and what it did to their population, as another poster already mentioned. He is not getting out of there soon unless America really, really wants him back which....nah. 

Updated On: 12/5/25 at 03:27 PM

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 3:29pm

"Who cares?" Gross. Dude sucks but we should care if even ****ty people are mistreated in prison. There's a lot of assumptions being made to get to "he's going to be discriminated against in prison" but "Who cares" is gross. 

Updated On: 12/5/25 at 03:29 PM

[MB124]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 3:49pm

Aaaand here come the keyboard social justice warriors. 🙄 

Give me a break. He broke the law. In another country. Knowingly. Because he clearly thought he was immune. Now he has to pay the price. 

F*ck around and find out. 

Updated On: 12/5/25 at 03:49 PM

[joevitus]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 4:57pm

Kinda mixture of "karma is b_" and "I hope he's physically okay" for me. Yes, this is all of his own making, and I just find him odious on every level. But still hate to see someone face potentially inhumane consequences. With all the blatant racism in our country, I get that this leads to some "you think a Black man is going fair well in a Japanese prison" comments, but I don't think this has a damn thing to do with race, nor that the things he could endure are a result of his race. 

Wish I could upvote the really funny comments, but for some reason when I try I get a "You have to be logged in to upvote this message" despite obviously being logged in--how else could I be posting this?

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 5:02pm

blug said: "To those delighting in this:

How do you think a gay black man will be treated in a Japanese prison?"

He is a grown man who should've considered the consequences of illegally smuggling drugging into a foreign country.

[whatever2]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 5:09pm

MB124 said: "Give me a break. He broke the law. In another country. Knowingly. Because he clearly thought he was immune. Now he has to pay the price."

i don't know the man so I can't say, but it's been noted in this thread that JOH is a serious recreational drug user. to me, that suggests the possibility of addiction. if that's the case, it's just as likely his sense of "getting away with it" is the result of an addict's infinite capacity for denial as it is of his outsized sense of entitlement. 

again, i don't know which is the case here, but probably neither do most of the others posting; it seems like we might allow for either possibility.

[kdogg36]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 5:23pm

TotallyEffed said: "It was also his choice and his choice alone that put him in this situation, whether you agree with the system or not."

You could say the same about undocumented children being separated from their parents and being imprisoned at the border. When someone is thrown in a cage for something that I don't regard as immoral, I  blame the jailers 100 percent.

[kdogg36]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 5:25pm

everythingtaboo said: "It's easy to say it's not actively hurting you, but however he's using it can hurt someone else."

Sure, if he held someone's mouth open and forced them to swallow. Otherwise, no.

[kdogg36]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 5:27pm

Jay Lerner-Z said: "Supporting murderous drug gangs actively hurts a lot of people though."

Murderous drug gangs should be prosecuted and punished severely for murder.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 5:28pm

kdogg36 said: "TotallyEffed said: "It was also his choice and his choice alone that put him in this situation, whether you agree with the system or not."

You could say the same about undocumented children being separated from their parents and being imprisoned at the border. When someone is thrown in a cage for something that I don't regard as immoral, I blame the jailers 100 percent."


Risking your safety and wellbeing to make a better life for your family is quite a bit different than bringing party drugs on an international flight. One reeks of entitled privilege and the other of desperation. Come on. Hardly comparable.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 5:41pm

kdogg36 said: "Jay Lerner-Z said: "Supporting murderous drug gangs actively hurts a lot of people though."

Murderous drug gangs should be prosecuted and punished severely formurder."


I can cut some slack to the poor unfortunates who were suckered in by these gangs and exploited. Privileged elites who snort for "recreation"… not so much. Don Jr. for example. He snorts to high heaven… props up cartels… then demonizes the people he has driven out of their own country.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 6:06pm

He’s far from cooked. He thrives on provocative press. He's an enfant terrible who will work this once he’s out. His career is built on things like this. The big question is how accountable will he be held. I’m imagining one of his high profile friends can make some calls. He’s friends with Madonna, Rihanna and budding lawyer Kim K. They’re all in his phone. I sense he will rise from these ashes with more material. 

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 6:17pm

blug said: "All these people getting off on someone being incarcerated in a corrupt prison system."


I’ve read some stupid things on this board over the years, but this wins as the dumbest thing ever. 

[DrMonicaDeMoneco]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 6:35pm

Scott Rudin will be producing his next play about drug smuggling 

[MezzanineSandwiches]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 7:56pm

When something bad happens to you and the community you belong to has such a wide-reaching nasty response, it might suggest you aren’t the nicest? Hard to have empathy for someone who shows others so little unless he can benefit. We’re talking about someone who spent his early years of success trying to publicly destroy Tarrel Alvin McCraney and Young Jean Lee for having the audacity to teach him while he was a student. He publicly went after an AD for not keeping programmed a play he hadn’t even written yet. The anecdotes are endless and verifiable due to him living life largely online and his abuse is somehow rewarded, and to his devout acolytes he can do no wrong (mostly because those people are also assholes and want his help). I do hope he doesn’t serve time and wish he’d one day live up to the leadership role he puts himself in. And I hope those who work with him encourage him to be better.

Updated On: 12/5/25 at 07:56 PM

[joevitus]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 8:04pm

kdogg36 said: "TotallyEffed said: "It was also his choice and his choice alone that put him in this situation, whether you agree with the system or not."

You could say the same about undocumented children being separated from their parents and being imprisoned at the border. When someone is thrown in a cage for something that I don't regard as immoral, I blame the jailers 100 percent."

No you can't because Trump is actually breaking the law by doing what he'd doing. Immigrants have the right to seek asylum. To arrest them for that and to then ship their kids off to seperate cages is not just ethically wrong, it is contrary to our wrongs and to policies that have been in place for at least 50 years. Even illegally entering this country is a misdemeanor, not a felony. So they are not knowingly breaking serious laws nor stupidly doing so because they are unaware of them. 

Updated On: 12/5/25 at 08:04 PM

[MB124]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 9:02pm

TotallyEffed said: "kdogg36 said: "TotallyEffed said: "It was also his choice and his choice alone that put him in this situation, whether you agree with the system or not."

You could say the same about undocumented children being separated from their parents and being imprisoned at the border. When someone is thrown in a cage for something that I don't regard as immoral, I blame the jailers 100 percent."


Risking your safetyand wellbeing to make a better life for your family is quite a bit different than bringing party drugs on an international flight. One reeks of entitled privilege and the other of desperation. Come on. Hardly comparable."

Exactly.

What kdogg …?
 

Also immorality has nothing to do with it. Illegality does. 

[blaxx]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 9:04pm

blug said: "To those delighting in this:

How do you think a gay black man will be treated in a Japanese prison?"

He's the most performative person in the planet. Wait until his play about him not having access to Starbucks opens Off Broadway.

[Georgeanddot2]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 10:03pm

He wrote that abysmal dog**** play that made white people cream their panties, took that money, became a drug addict, and walked off the edge of the earth. Amazing. 10/10.

[kdogg36]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 10:06pm

TotallyEffed said: "kdogg36 said: "Risking your safetyand wellbeing to make a better life for your family is quite a bit different than bringing party drugs on an international flight. One reeks of entitled privilege and the other of desperation. Come on. Hardly comparable."

They are not comparable at all in many ways, you're right, but they're comparable to me in one essential way: they're non-crimes by my (deeply libertarian) understanding of the term, and thus the real criminals are those who are doing the punishing.

Anyhow, I know I've been a little heated in this thread - I've said my piece now a few times over and will move on. 

Updated On: 12/5/25 at 10:06 PM

[quizking101]

Posted: 12/5/25 at 10:34pm

If anyone wants a really on-the-nose (but for legal purposes, fictional) idea of what JOH is like in real life, go see Ronald Peet’s performance in PRACTICE.

Without going into details, Peet bases a good chunk of his performance from his working with Harris