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Originally Posted by albert cipriani
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Originally Posted by godfry n. glad
“Those are hate words (Japs) used in the United States since before the Second World War.”
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Right! It’s cuz we’re raciest that on VJ day newspapers all across our sick society ran 142 point headlines which read: “Japs Quit”
It’s cuz those newspaper editors knew that all those American widows and grieving mothers hated the Japanese so much that they wouldn’t buy newspapers if those newspapers called the Japanese anything other than their proper raciest epithet -- Japs. (Which is also why, till this very day, Americans still won’t buy Jap cars or cameras, or stereos… that’s how deep our bigotry continues to run.)
It had nothing to do with the fact the headline “Japanese Surrender” would have forced them to use less enthusiastic smaller leading. – Incredulous, Albert Cipriani the Traditional Catholic |
Yeah... We're not racist, are we, al? I guess those thousands of Americans we placed in concentration camps (after defrauding them of much of their material possessions) during the Second World War was "just for their protection", huh?
What about all the Chinese-Americans that were mobbed and beaten because Americans of European descent could not tell them apart?
And, where were all the concentration camps for those Americans of German ancestry?
I'll tell you, al, the state I live was the state with the second largest number of members in the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920's. You know who the primary targets were for this group in an area where the black population was negliable? Asians, primarily; Japanese and Chinese. And Catholics.