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MrsUnderstoop
Ralph Carr lost his political career trying to help those interred.
NPSM365
That's a quality human.
Semphir
Probably lots of people saying they would have done something simillar... 9 out of 10 wouldn't. I wouldn't. Most people are not this level.
Boffobeast
It’s so weird that the world’s default is that it makes it difficult to do the right thing. The whole fear thing runs too many lives.
deaddogsmuggler
Feels like we can start calling them concentration camps...with everyone knowing they were and such.
ITiltMyHeadToUnderstand
That man slayed a lot of puss in his day.
Predicto
A good chunk of the richest growers in California made a large part of their fortunes by stealing Japanese farmland during the internment
OldSwedishGrandma
Concentration camps. They learned from the Germans.
DuxNautarum
That's quite the stretch.
anarchoFeline
solidarity✊️?
CrimeSceneShoe
Build statues of people this.
AlterSack
Real heros don't wear capes. They do the right things without talking much about it.
Hubbie77
You don’t know he didn’t wear a cape…
drbwaa
Now imagine affording not one, but FOUR mortgages with no warning, on your single income!
AsABiologistWhoIsNotFunAtParties
Hopefully he was able to grow on and get some extra income out of the neighbors' farms at the time.
steerAwwPrincess
A man is judged by his deeds, not his words
NotTheDevilYouKnow
A real American hero
Illinifan88
America has never been the shining beacon of freedom we like to think.
Ittouchesthetoilet
briankMaker
Badly needed this type of American today....
darkhalfbreed
I'd like to think that after their release the Fletchers and those families got togeather regularly, holiday meals and what not
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
Ah yes. Murica, the 'democracy that puts own citizena in concentration camps'
lilmookie
I always found the concept that large agriculture companies made a killing buying off foreclosed Japanese farmland for pennies on dollar.
lilmookie
.. interesting. A lof of Japanese farmland in the bay area of CA has been sold off as corp buildings or track housing - families did well
TalkingSnake
Look for the helpers
Yourmomshouz
Always ignored when it comes to issues of racism/slavery..along with Mexicans/South Americans/Chinese/Indians/etc
Callistan
*Be a helper
DarkRedCape
In my own experience, the helpers don’t need finding, everyone knows them. It’s the ones that won’t help or impede it you need to look for.
BenderBendingRrodriguez
But don't shoot at them
TalkingSnake
Please.
3nd3rwiggin
Will be the next thing banned from being taught in school, if not already banned.
WenTheEternallySurprised
Anyone able to visit Manzanar owes it to themselves to do so. WARNING: It will not make you feel very comfortable about then OR the present.
WrongUn
Just like any other day then
hetnkik999
Man, why's California gotta be so big. "It's only half a state away from me" would be a couple hour drive on the east coast lol
grandestoptimist
Ontario would like a word.
Kittenman15
I'd watch that movie
compused
I saw some article about how it really wasnt about national security but people wanting to seize the land from the Japanese diaspora.
whitecheddarismyrappername
need a movie about this.
jamesrPlayer
Guy looks like Tom Hardy too.
Mostlydeadpool
I'd watch the shit out of this. have it start from the beginning, however, show the paranoia and how it spilled over into the camps...
justherefortheconfession
The few like this just emphasize how completely awful the majority of humanity is
Mostlydeadpool
Gabriel might agree with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqymXN3cdy4
rooik14
The fascists in various places of power want you to believe that. Some people may be scared or uncertain or misinformed however most 1/
rooik14
2/3 people are good. They simply want safety for their family & community. You have a lot more in common with a working-class guy in Iraq
rooik14
3/3 or China or Russia than you do your representative in whatever your country's Capitol is.
bugcooper
dont believe it. if anything more than a small percentage of people were bad, we would all be in internment camps.
nansjune31415
My dad worked for an American company till about '94 (we're in the UK). Even 50 years after ww2 Japanese company cars were banned.
nansjune31415
But they had no issue with German cars, go figure.
Ghostsandwitch
Yeah, I'm willing to be they were still fans of Italian cars too.
nansjune31415
Maybe, but I doubt anyone would have got one seeing as they needed the car for work.
trasneoir
The Pacific campaign was nastier than Europe in many ways. I wouldn't condone this policy from a veteran CEO, but I could understand it.
nansjune31415
It's strange how EU war criminals were hanged but equally bad Japs were let off by the USA but the Russians hanged the ones they caught.
nansjune31415
Search for 'unit 731' the research was kept by the US. It is up there with mengle.
MaybeIllDisappear
He did what was right, but it never should have happened in the first place.
Bonsaipanda
It will happen again. In some perspective, it's already happening.
TylerDurden85
Another orphan saved from the orphan crushing machine!
FetteredJuvenescence
To be fair, this is someone who actively resisted the machinists.
fiercebetty
And what was done to the Japanese-Americans was "Legal" as well. Just cause its legal doesn't make it right.
Tovarish1013
Legal how? They were US citizens with constitutional protections of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Oh right, they weren't white.
kuglaq
My grandfather was the one who took this to court and won for all japanese americans
Darkm3m0ry
Thus said, remember Hitler made everything about the "jew" illegal even the persons existence. What the us did to anyone for their race (1/2
Darkm3m0ry
During this time period was no different than he did, we need to grow from history and learn. not push aside and hide to grow as humans(2/2)
smashole
That's basically what crt I think. Teaching what happened in the past to the new generation so it doesn't happen again. Nothing more.
PatrickDiomedes
yeah, IIRC the nazis got inspiration for some of their policies from the US
thedudeman519
Jim Crow laws and segregation, yea .
PoppinLochNessHopster
What complete shit-yacht would shoot at a person for tending a farm? need story.
whatsisname
Clearly you've never studied history of virtually any culture, at any time.
PoppinLochNessHopster
No I have, my question stands.
fnordy
A lot of the impetus behind the internment was the success of Japanese-American farms, their techniques, their styles. Envious white people
fnordy
saw an opportunity: Round up the Japanese under pretense of safety, then take their farms and everything else for a song (or for free). This
fnordy
is one of the reasons we needed to make reparations. We just took the entirety of a generation's stuff from them. Big farms now added the
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fnordy
with people who are trying their hardest to get away with theft.
fnordy
better Japanese farms to their stash. Someone defending it like this guy, tending it until the rightful owner comes back, doesn't sit well
fnordy
with those who are trying to take it by theft.