Why Japanese American Internment Still Matters Today

[@blakrumba]

"As a child you're always thinking about fairness..." - So true. So much of the worlds' illogical adults confused me as a child, particularly regarding issues of racism.

[@alvydasjokubauskas2587]

The most amazing fact is 95 years old grandma looks great...

[@yvonneplant9434]

Actor George Takei, who is mostly known for Star Trek the original series, he was in one of these camps.

[@theeldersaysso5600]

Yeah just saw that crazy 😩

[@ClaudeYoung]

He did a play about the experience called George Takei's Allegiance. Worth a watch.

[@dahlialove1001]

I live in an old internment camp home. And the vibes are def here

[@RosiePosey5150]

Hi I'm 37 and was never taught about this. I learned it from books I got from the library. I felt that I wasn't getting all the details in history class so I started in 2nd grade learning on my own the dirty details and not the squeaky clean version. Literally ignored history in class and just did art.

[@TheGrafton12]

We are doomed to repeat this, as I can see many who probably dont want it taught in American History.

[@chrisoliver4757]

Cos the couldn't do it to Germans and Italians, cos there were 100,000's of them.

[@jdmmg4904]

This is so important

[@TheQueerLeaf]

Thank you ❤️

[@fernandovalencia5644]

Why is the history books not adding this? Kids could really learn something.

[@stephenwright8824]

I'd rather the English teachers kept kids back for messing up noun-verb agreements to prevent graduating kids who write like English is their 223rd language instead of their first.

[@AbuChanOfficial]

Sad memories

[@kidmohair8151]

it still matters because the issue at the root of the problem still exists, regardless of how much a certain segment of the party formerly known as republican wishes it would just go away... after all, as mitch mcmoscow said..."we gave you a black president...isn't that enough?" no, mr mcmoscow, it isn't. you haven't "given" us your utter annihilation yet...all in time tho

[@kidmohair8151]

@King of the Manlets thank you for making my point

[@kidmohair8151]

@King of the Manlets racism

[@vespasianflavius8778]

Why has Italian or German Internment never mattered?

[@exploreohio1735]

Put it this way, there was more than double the amount of deaths to adults and kids to the whole population of Italians in camps. Edit: looking it up again it wasn't double it was nearly 4x the amount of deaths of Japanese in camps.

[@theeldersaysso5600]

It matters because it happened

[@Gothic_Princess_17]

STOP ASIAN HATE!!!

[@JoeWolsing]

One thing we all can from that is the following: Japan is an incredibly racist country. Americans of Japanese origin yet made the experience of being treated as "the enemy" including all the dehuminastaion that goes along with this perspective. These folks are different now. Experience changes minds!

[@JoeWolsing]

@@DJReferee17 so you're part of the problem

[@tedcat117]

I am Japanese American. Japan is complicated when it comes to racism. Yeah, they are pretty racist against Koreans for sure, and little less so for mainland Chinese. But they treat Taiwanese people well. Like other asian countries, they have judgmental views towards other asians. When it comes to non-asians, the issue isn't that they aren't racist. The issue is that, since so few people of non-asian descent even exist in Japan (sans Tokyo), Japanese people have no playbook for their reactions. Like I've heard from both white and black people on how they'll be visiting Japan and old ladies will just touch their hair on the train or random school children will want to take pictures. Even mexicans and middle easterns will have this happen to them. Japanese people's reaction to non-asians doesn't come from a place fear, rather from a place of curiosity and lack of information. It doesn't excuse treading on other people's physical territory, but at least they aren't reacting from implicit hate or fear. Way oversimplified, but Japan isn't a wholeheartedly a cut and dry racist country. It's complicated, like virtually everywhere else in the world.

[@Imold498]

@@ese_cholito you're boring

[@thekidd2189]

George Carlin brought me here

[@MRSBEAUTIFUL1232]

Okay I understand that it still matters but Asian people got a bill to protect them within a year and black people are still afraid to walk out they front doors. None the less we still have been paid for reparations even though it’s in the constitution…

[@stephenwright8824]

You _have_ been paid reparations, or you haven't? I think you may have forgot a *not* there.

[@MRSBEAUTIFUL1232]

@@stephenwright8824 well clearly it was a typo cause OBVIOUSLY black Americans haven’t been paid for their ancestors being slaughtered

[@zippydodahquirk9039]

What about Italian and German internment victims? These people are NEVER talked about in the media.

[@jdmmg4904]

Google whataboutism 😘!

[@zippydodahquirk9039]

@@jdmmg4904 Nope it's important to acknowledge the people who are being dismissed in history.

[@kionnakelly2918]

@@zippydodahquirk9039 do you only acknowledge them when other groups are being discussed? If that's the case then you must not truly care about the issues you bring up now, to distract from the current topic...

[@zippydodahquirk9039]

@@kionnakelly2918 Tell me when the German Americans or Italian Americans internments were discussed?

[@zippydodahquirk9039]

@@kionnakelly2918 Of course I care about the issues. It makes sense to talk about it under this video because it gets views and brings attention.

[@722Moo]

LDR started asian hate

[@stephenwright8824]

FWIW, I was momentarily tempted to write _Lucifer_ Delano Roosevelt, but didn't want to sound like I agreed with 722Moo's assertion that *FDR* had been twice or even three times as racist as the other men I did mention.

[@k8_hsy]

Please do a video about comfort women

[@NathanielC19]

And they got reparations!

[@melaniesheldon8013]

Dismantling the government and systems reinforcing slavery under imprisonment and genocide that continues would be better

[@reviosanver]

The same how the Japanese treated the Filipinos at that time.

[@Kevin-ht1st]

“The Japanese cry in pain as they strike you” A Chinese twist to a traditional polish proverb

[@RowdyBoy82]

So what do you mean by this?

[@Kevin-ht1st]

@@RowdyBoy82 “ The Jew cries in pain as they strike you” was the original proverb, but I replaced it with “Japanese” since Japan wants westerners to believe they are the victims in order to distract them from the atrocities they commited in Nanjing. My history class mentioned about the internment camps but didn’t mention about the Nanjing massacre. It’s the same tactic Israelis use

[@averyrandomllama6516]

Nothing compared to the treatment of Chinese civilians and Allied POWs.

[@deebrown7160]

Why don't you guys stop talking about it they asked the blacks to stop talking about slavery just get over it

[@Kevin-ht1st]

Karma for them

[@nickmaroni9333]

It doesn't matter, it was 70 years ago and people didn't know better

[@trev5287]

This the same ignorance that’s the problem today 🤦🏾‍♂️ when will America just accept its faults and right them. Denying is easier

[@maxl2778]

Of course a white guy named Nick is saying this

[@kionnakelly2918]

@@trev5287 exactly. People did know better back then. Just like they knew better about slavery. If they didn't, there wouldn't have been any white abolitionists. People just use that excuse to ignore the reality what happened and how it still has ripple effects felt today

[@turtlegaminghd5406]

My great grandfather left Italy to Escape mussolini, is Italy responsible for that?

[@maxl2778]

@@turtlegaminghd5406 Yes? Literally everyone thinks that Germany was responsible for hitler, Italy was responsible for Mussolini, and The US is responsible for these internment camps, slavery, and every other bad thing we did