XPost: alt.war.vietnam, alt.politics.immigration, az.politics   
   XPost: alt.survival   
   From: mnbXV@zjurd.com   
      
   rbowman wrote on 3/1/2017 9:59 PM:   
   > On 03/01/2017 06:55 PM, Sam Spade wrote:   
   >> Sounds better than internment camps.   
   >   
   > Ever been out to Manzanar? Most of the buildings are gone but as I   
   > walked back to the visitors center from the memorial in the dusk, I   
   > thought I heard a ghost or two.   
   >   
   >   
   >> Some of the Japanese were screwed by FDR's order.  But, the country   
   >> thought a Japanese invasion was coming.  Can you blame them after Pearl   
   >> Harbor?   
   >   
   > I come from the other side of the country and most of my family were of   
   > German heritage. There was a half-hearted attempt to change German place   
   > names, and German Shepherds and Dachshunds got different titles but   
   > there was no attempt to intern American citizens of German extraction.   
   > Of course, that would have been about 25% of the country.   
   >   
   > It was a lot easier to demonize the Japanese. My brother was a Marine   
   > aviator in the Pacific so I was brought up to avoid any Japanese   
   > products. About 40 years later he showed up in his motorhome with a   
   > Toyota Tercel in tow, saying "I never thought I would do it..."   
   >   
   > Now it's the Russians that are bad, bad, bad.   
      
   The USA has befriended the Axis of Evil (Germany, Japan and Italy) and   
   demonized the two major ally and victim countries (Russia and China).   
   You should bow your head in shame.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)