It's water under the bridge right? It happened decades ago, reparations were paid. And yet I found myself getting mad & taking sides over it
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After watching the show and then researching the background I'm still torn up about it
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I wholeheartedly love the show and yet when I read the vets' letter asking Takei what gave him the right to judge I sympathize with them too
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It is absolutely a show to see if you or someone you love is a PoC in the armed forces or in law enforcement, going into 2017
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The 442nd were the most decorated unit in WWII, both spitting in the eye of racism and, arguably, giving racists exactly what they wanted
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Look at it from FDR's POV - he got to pander to white xenophobes for their votes AND get a unit of highly motivated combat troops
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Be worth looking at a parallel w the 54th Massachusetts (as profiled in the film Glory)
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And the general US tradition of making minorities prove themselves in horrible wars to earn their citizenship
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Not like we invented it, the Brits did it to half the people they conquered
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I don't self-ID as particularly patriotic or pro-patriotism. But 442nd vets have much more of a right to be patriotic than anyone else
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If you've never had to choose between your country and another part of who you are then you don't even really know what "patriot" means
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