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Thread #28452   Message #2082502
Posted By: GUEST,undertheradar
20-Jun-07 - 04:05 PM
Thread Name: Dec 7th is 59th Anniversary
Subject: RE: Dec 7th is 59th Anniversary
Yes, the Japanese-American internments are well remembered here. Congress voted each survivor about $20,000 in reparations some years ago. Unless they've changed in the past few years, Japanese textbooks don't even tell kids their country started the war.

Be careful about the word "atrocious" here. No Jpaanese-Americans were starved, tortured, murdered, beheaded, raped, experimented on, or set to slave labor, which is the treatment prisoners of the Japanese often received. The Japanese Army also used germ warfare against China.

I'm pretty tired of this moral equivalence about how we're all bad so everyone deserves equal blame.