The worst thing abt how incoherent our WWII Discourse is is how condemning Unit 731 and EO 9066 at once gets read as somehow a contradiction
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The irony that a fairly high percentage of Issei came to the US *because* Imperial Japan was monstrous and they were fleeing fascism
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That we imprisoned people whose families were here in the first place because they heard and believed the hype about liberal Western values
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I guess I wish more people took the step and a half back to see how cyclical this shit is
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Like how obvious and predictable it honestly is that the fascist fire is spreading fastest in the former Allies
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Look as someone with Chinese heritage this is a big issue for me
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In China it never fails to get people's blood flowing to repeat the - justified and true - talking points abt Nanking and Unit 731
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And not talk about how after the Japanese left the very next order of business was a massive civil war
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Installing a regime that killed more Chinese, enslaved more Chinese and - fuck - burned more Chinese culture and history than Japan ever did
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And then of course from my own perspective you have the martial-law "free" Chiang Kai-Shek govt in Taiwan
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Which pointed at all those justified and true talking points about monstrous abrogations of freedom across the strait
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And used that as their own reason to burn books, set up blacklists, throw people into the backs of vans and hook them up to car batteries
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My most recent trip to Taiwan I got to see the juxtaposition of CKS brand fashion ads with the White Terror memorial for ppl CKS had killed
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