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@moonman I suspect regret for his role in gathering Japanese Americans into concentration camps helped motivate Gov. Earl Warren to be the SCOTUS judge he became.
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I don’t see the context, but I don’t think a lot of non-Californians know that Gov Warren helped push for it, and so they probably don’t realize that he was not always the champion of racial equality we know him as.
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@moonman I haven’t read as much about it. But one of the great things about being my age is that I had a teacher that lived through the round-up of his Japanese American classmates and one that heard Adolph Hitler’s speeches on the radio as a child in #Latvia. Their stories made the dry “this bad thing happened a long time ago” of history textbooks into something real. (I also had a pastor who survived a Japanese POW camp.)
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@sim @moonman
That’s all true, but there’s some additional context, too:
1: This did not apply to German Americans, a larger group with more opportunity to integrate (hide) and more geographically dispersed.
2: Japanese Americans (at least in California, where most were) had restrictions on where they could live, where they could go, what fields of business they could be in. They had substantially less opportunity to do any damage.
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@sim @lnxw48a1 I should mention though that German-Americas were heavily mistreated during the war, but they weren't fricking put in a camp like the Japanese were.
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