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Re: San Jose's Light Rail after 25 years----inefficient etc
Author: Drew Jacksich
Date: 01-03-2013 - 13:25
Think what you want but remember California at one time had "Yellow Peril" laws some of which were still on the books prior to WWII. Revising history is a very nice way to make you feel comfortable but the fact is the anti-Japanese sentiment in California and on the West Coast was rampant. You may want think that was wrong, immoral or whatever but the fact is that it existed.
The fear of an invasion of the West Coast was very real. Combine that with the already existing racism against all asians, an invasion would have been justification for a lot of people to shoot Japanese on sight, American citizen or not. The historical fact is an invasion never happened and there was no great amount of disloyalty but get off your touchy feely warm and cuddly view of history and realize that after December 7th, 1941, no one, from FDR on down, knew what to expect.
You had also better remember what Japan did to American and other POW's as well as foriegn nationals trapped in Japanese held territories. Knowing that was going on,RIGHT OR WRONG, what the hell did you expect Americans to do? From Pearl Harbor until well after surrender of Japan, we wanted revenge and most people didn't care how we got it. In some respects, the people interned under #9066 were possibly lucky that is all that happened to them. When film and photographs of American dead in the South Pacific were released by the War Department, what do you think would have happened here? I suppose Americans were just supposed to walk up and kiss every Jap they saw and understand it was just their misguided cousins who did that?
It was war pal, which by some odd reasoning, is why they used to have a War Department. Japan started it and we did, whether right or wrong, what we had to do to finish it. Oh yes, the people back then were just a bunch of poor misguided souls and you think you have the right, with the 20/20 hindsight of history, to sit in judgement. Today's standards do not, whether you like it or not, apply to the years of and what happened during WWII.
Dan Wrote:
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> Ick! "it was for their protection" that we put
> them in concentration camps??? I suppose that is
> what the Germans were doing with the Jews at the
> same time? Protecting them from the rest of us???
> Some how I think you may have lost what few
> marbles you had left.
The fear of an invasion of the West Coast was very real. Combine that with the already existing racism against all asians, an invasion would have been justification for a lot of people to shoot Japanese on sight, American citizen or not. The historical fact is an invasion never happened and there was no great amount of disloyalty but get off your touchy feely warm and cuddly view of history and realize that after December 7th, 1941, no one, from FDR on down, knew what to expect.
You had also better remember what Japan did to American and other POW's as well as foriegn nationals trapped in Japanese held territories. Knowing that was going on,RIGHT OR WRONG, what the hell did you expect Americans to do? From Pearl Harbor until well after surrender of Japan, we wanted revenge and most people didn't care how we got it. In some respects, the people interned under #9066 were possibly lucky that is all that happened to them. When film and photographs of American dead in the South Pacific were released by the War Department, what do you think would have happened here? I suppose Americans were just supposed to walk up and kiss every Jap they saw and understand it was just their misguided cousins who did that?
It was war pal, which by some odd reasoning, is why they used to have a War Department. Japan started it and we did, whether right or wrong, what we had to do to finish it. Oh yes, the people back then were just a bunch of poor misguided souls and you think you have the right, with the 20/20 hindsight of history, to sit in judgement. Today's standards do not, whether you like it or not, apply to the years of and what happened during WWII.
Dan Wrote:
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> Ick! "it was for their protection" that we put
> them in concentration camps??? I suppose that is
> what the Germans were doing with the Jews at the
> same time? Protecting them from the rest of us???
> Some how I think you may have lost what few
> marbles you had left.
