A Japanese American's thoughts in the context of Vance/Trump's anti-Haitian statements

[ChicagoRonin]

Y’know, the WWII internment of Japanese Americans occurred without having any verifiable evidence that the JA community was working for Imperial Japan or its military.

What they did have was ignorant wartime hysteria, a white majority society that didn’t like Asians to begin with, politicians making inflammatory statements, a press that stoke the flames, and military and law enforcement all too ready and willing to do the wrong thing.

So they harassed, removed and locked up 125,000 people, including children and the elderly. And for what?

[Delphinus]

1. Thank you

We are reliving history.

[MineralMan]

2. Yes, exactly.

[ColinC]

3. This Japanese American agrees!

Well said!

[MichMan]

4. All caused by FDR executive orders

He had a history of animosity towards Japanese Americans years before Pearl Harbor, opposing both interracial marriage and land ownership.

[regnaD kciN]

5. You left out one cause...

…developers who were eager to snatch up Japanese farmers’ lands at pennies on the dollar.

Just ask the Kemper Freeman family, who own much of Bellevue, Washington, and who lobbied tirelessly for internment of the farmers who owned that land.

[ChicagoRonin]

6. Yeah, that's another dirty bit of history

Wish more people knew how much of the wartime hysteria was just used as a front for interested parties who wanted to move in and take all the JA land and businesses.

[rurallib]

7. Thanks so much for that little known aspect

Seems almost no matter what, there is always a money aspect. for someone