Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2897 - 2901 (16-20 February 2015)
DrClef:
There were a lot of justifications for the Japanese Internment. A lot of which get put in another light, when you consider that in Hawaii (the only state to actually GET attacked by Japan), only 1% of the Japanese-American population were imprisoned, compared to practically all of them in California.
Of course, in Hawaii, the Japanese-American population were a major part of the workforce. Interning all of them would pretty much have crippled the Hawaiian agricultural industry. And the Hawaiian internees were all community leaders and such.
It's interesting to note what happened to the entire Japanese-American culture in Hawaii as a result. It practically disappeared.
. . . all of this has little to nothing to do with the strip, so I'll end it here. Suffice to say that it's not exactly America's finest hour.
ReindeerFlotilla:
You know, considering what I know of American history, I'm stumped as to what our finest hour could possibly have been.
We only get one, by definition. All of the contenders seem to mired in tons of really horrible stuff.
Considering all of this, I suspect our finest hour probably occurred when the majority of us were asleep.
Aziraphale:
Well, we have a lot to live down, that's for sure. Then, too, history is complicated at least in part by the fact that it doesn't stay in the past. Our past leaves its fingerprints in the present, and on whatever we might be in the future. So either the best of which we're capable is yet to happen, or our best days exist in some pre-lapsarian past to which we have to return in order to be at our best. Looking at the big picture, I tend to fall into the former camp, since our past is too crowded with the ghosts of our wrongs to make for a desirable future. All that leaves is trying to right the past in the present in hopes of a future that lives up to something better.
Hopefully that made some kind of sense.
Half Empty Coffee Cup:
--- Quote from: DrClef on 20 Feb 2015, 20:27 ---(the only state to actually GET attacked by Japan)
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Not so!
Of course, neither Hawaii nor Alaska were states at the time, anyway...
DrClef:
--- Quote from: Half Empty Coffee Cup on 20 Feb 2015, 22:37 ---
--- Quote from: DrClef on 20 Feb 2015, 20:27 ---(the only state to actually GET attacked by Japan)
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Not so!
Of course, neither Hawaii nor Alaska were states at the time, anyway...
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I stand corrected. Forgot about the Aleutians Campaign.
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