Posted on 02/16/2020 10:58:40 PM PST by KJC1
Video at link.
Only text at link is: The event was held the same day as State Officials said they'd apologize this week for anti-Japanese sentiment.
Unreal. I don't know anyone who has any issues with Japanese, and I was born and raised in Hawaii with a huge Japanese population.
The internment of Japanese (at the hands of a Democrat President) was unnecessary (though understandeable given the war hysteria following 12/7/1941) and later judged to be unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
Apologies, reparations, etc have long been issued. Hardly anyone (except for those who were small children) who lived through it is still around.
So ... this is nothing but gratuitous ‘virtue signalling’ by the same people who would GLADLY apply the same method to those they disagree with politically .... you can’t make this stuff up ...
When you’re the Democrat Party, you divide people.
It’s what you do.
Hindsight is 20/20, and there was a lot concern at the time that the Japanese here would be more loyal to the home country. Why take a chance.
We’d be facing the exact same issue if we ever went to war with China.
When will they apologize to the Nazis?
2025= Somber Day of Remembrance in SF to remember Illegal Aliens
Not the same now. Back then, there were many restrictions on where Asians could live. On the SF peninsula, neighborhood associations had rules against selling homes to Asians, so many Japanese-Americans were concentrated in city neighborhoods. Japanese-Americans were forced to give up property, and their cars were taken and sold off as they reported to concentration points. A lot different now, with Chinese spread out everywhere with no restrictions where they can live. Much harder to round them up, if it ever considered.
No apologies needed...it was war. We paid a price of life and so did they. That’s just how war is. They started it and we ended it.
This is the same old, same old politico-ideological pap thats been served to Californians for decades. When I first came to CA 36 years ago, I was shocked to find that it was a big deal. That the teaching of WWII in the schools consisted of the Japanese internment and the Atomic bombs.
It was obviously an engineered guilt trip to make Americans depressed about their role in WWII and to question their role in the world. I would not be surprised that the whole thing, the emphasis on this, was some Soviet effort run through agents of influence.
Propaganda is very often a matter of emphasising fact x, which is made out to be supremely important, and ignoring fact y, which doesn’t matter.
Being a descendant of survivors of the Manila massacre, in which 100,000 people were murdered with incredible viciousness, the fact of the Japanese internment seems to rate not even a footnote in the tale of WWII.
Weren’t they the ones that put them in internment camps?
Rounded up by order of a DhimmicRATic president.
We are talking about American citizens here. Internment was wrong.
You have a link to back that up...about Japanese forced to live in cities
Not where I lived
Jackson Mississippi of all places
Yes we had Japanese too from late 1800s...agriculture in the delta..the Japs farmed better than the Chinese
Btw....I looked it up yes California did segregate Japs you are right
But Mississippi didn’t...isn’t that funny...I thought we were the bigots
My neighborhood had a war hero doc who was third gen Japanese ...his son was of course excellent at baseball
Not much of an apology since they’re not giving back what was stolen from them with the aid of the good democrat Truman. More than a few West Coast fortunes were built on what was originally Japanese-American property.
Yea, it’s going to be a somber day in America for Americans who have to put up with this hyphenated-American bullshit. If u use the hyphenated-America terminology to describe yourself, leave off the term “American” so as not to insult us Americans.
In WWII, an orgy of cruelty and destruction and mass murder, every nation did horrible things. The differences between them were matters of degree, and in some sense the matter of who began perpetrating some barbarism first.
On the scale of that feast of blood, and even on the scale of what else it had done to other innocent people, the US interning the Japanese and taking their property was trivial. On any fair metric of horrible things this should be a footnote.
To people like me, who grew up playing in the ruins, this whole obsession seems absurd.
I don't need a link, saw it up close. Just across the San Francisco border, in Daly City where I lived for a while. Right in the paperwork for buying a home, forbidding caucasians from selling to Asians. Realtor said don't worry about that, no longer enforced (early 1970s). Back then, very few Asians in the peninsula suburbs, mostly white folks. By the 1980s, Daly City flipped from majority white to mostly Asian because the old racist rules were dropped. Trickle after WWII ended became a flood of Asians by the 1980s to the suburbs. There was never a problem about Japanese living and working in the Central Valley of California, they were largely responsible for developing the rich farmlands. Same was true for Chinese and Mexican laborers. Whites had restrictive rules in the suburbs.
By the way, about Asians living in cities here in California, had fewer problems than elsewhere with blending in. My wife is Chinese-American, never knew her grandparents as they died long ago. Her father served in the U.S. Army during WWII in Italy. After he passed some thirty years ago, she found paperwork that showed her great-grandfather was a deputy sheriff in Alameda across from San Francisco, while raising her grandfather as a child. Huh, a Chinese-American lawman a century ago!
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