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Uaarkson

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  1. Just now, thewhyteboar said:

    I think the only thing I learned about Japanese internment in grade school was when we read an illustrated children’s book that was like “this little boy and his family had to live in a camp. That’s sad! But he loves baseball. That’s fun! Sometimes he played baseball with a white boy. They became friends. Sometimes, things aren’t so bad. The end.”


    If I had a dollar for every time I heard the phrase “necessary evil”…

  2. When I was in high school, WWII discussion was often centered around the atrocities committed by the Nazis and Imperial Japan, and NEVER around the numerous war crimes committed by the allies and the US in particular. Operation Meetinghouse, by the numbers, was the second-worst war crime in modern human history, after the Holocaust itself.

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