To add insult to injury the big controversy within the camps was that men still had to register for the draft https://twitter.com/runolgarun/status/808128002013810688 …
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"We've already imprisoned you and set up our suicide battalion as the only way out but just in case we don't get enough volunteers..."
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There's also the fact that Tule Lake, a camp set up for "troublemakers" from the other camps, was in fact a forced labor camp
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So yes, Japanese-Americans did get "assigned" to the "worst jobs" to "win the war"
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Most of the soldiers who fought and died against the Nazis in the 442nd were volunteers, but some were drafted
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Many who resisted the draft got "assigned" to go pick crops for slave wages
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And you talk like the entire damn country went on a command economy during the war
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Like there weren't businessmen at the time making healthy profit on land they managed to buy from Japanese neighbors for cents on the dollar
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The thing about narratives abt "equally shared suffering" in times of war is they are generally plain false
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The "suffering" of a prisoner or draftee in WWII and that of a businessman contending w rationing and price ceilings are not the same ok
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"Oh we all suffered during the evacuation from the Blitz, my tenants lost their homes and I lost a dependable rental income"
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