Reminder that Fred Korematsu lost his case, and Korematsu v US has never been overturned
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Look I don't wanna be a downer for its own sake but don't whitewash this shit. Japanese-Americans fought internment like hell, and lost
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They got an apology 50 years later, which is not the same thing as justice being done
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And the bad guys won. White ppl in CA got rich off of their neighbors' lost property. FDR's admin got mad props for being tough guys
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FDR's legacy remains bright and shiny. In retrospectives on FDR for a long time no one mentioned internment
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Ppl have said a long time that the mindset behind Korematsu v US has been so badly discredited it can't possibly serve as precedent
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This is the law-school line I was given re: Korematsu on FB by a HS friend turned law nerd. Color me skeptical.
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