Yeah and do you think that happened because the Asians in the 40s hadn't worked hard enough or "stepped up" enough to have EARNED tolerance? Or is it more likely to be because people accumulated enough clout to DEMAND tolerance
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ArnicaxRoss and
So are you suggesting if all the Japanese Americans remained interned and never enlisted, they’d be better off? Kind of a pointless hypothetical speculation. But everything you’ve been tweeting is kinda pointless isn’t it
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Replying to @NewProgressUSA @ArnicaxRoss and
Yes A lot of them would, for instance, still be alive
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ArnicaxRoss and
But they were Americans - why would it have been OK for them to stay Stateside while other Americans fought?
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Replying to @NewProgressUSA @ArnicaxRoss and
BECAUSE THE US GOVERNMENTS HAD IMPRISONED THEM WITHOUT CAUSE, YOU DUMB RACIST FUCK
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ArnicaxRoss and
But it was an American’s duty to enlist then. By not enlisting they’d be conceding that they are not Americans. That’s partly why some of them DID enlist. Because despite the internment, they felt they were Americans.
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Replying to @NewProgressUSA @arthur_affect and
It is an American's duty to die for a country that hates and fears you and seeks your removal from society because you are different? I don't remember seeing that rule written down anywhere. You don't owe your country your life. Your country owes you your freedom and your vote.
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Replying to @lilyvonpsudonym @arthur_affect and
Talking about back then lol ffs people don’t read on Twitter
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Replying to @NewProgressUSA @lilyvonpsudonym and
It was inconceivable that an able bodied American wouldn’t enlist in WW2 - the social pressure was immense
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Replying to @NewProgressUSA @lilyvonpsudonym and
...you know you’re talking about people in camps right? Are you saying that the internment camps were places where people felt peer pressure to fight in WWII
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I don't think this guy actually even knows that the draft resistance movement in the camps was a thing
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