While the topic du jour is mass deportation, there's a few things I can elucidate on here if we're talking the Japanese American wartime incarceration, including the planned and ultimate failure to deport thousands after they renounced their citizenship. The legal battles lasted for years. - ThreadSky

terrible.moe • 103 days ago

While the topic du jour is mass deportation, there's a few things I can elucidate on here if we're talking the Japanese American wartime incarceration, including the planned and ultimate failure to deport thousands after they renounced their citizenship. The legal battles lasted for years.

Reposted from George Takei

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

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othiym23.bsky.social•103 days ago

thanks for this.

terrible.moe•103 days ago

To start with, "battles?" Yes, battles. Let me start with the big picture of what this could devolve into:

When thousands of Japanese Americans renounced their citizenship after getting sent to the camps, Fred Korematsu's Nor Cal ACLU attorney (more on this later) Wayne M. Collins took the case.

terrible.moe•103 days ago

Collins hoped to reinstate some 5,000 people who renounced their citizenship in duress through a class action suit, because that makes sense.

The gov. said no dice. He was going to have to litigate them INDIVIDUALLY. Thus he had to 1) stop the deportations, and 2) regain citizenships over 20 years.

terrible.moe•103 days ago

This story is detailed in "One Fighting Irishman," which, funny enough, is narrated by George Takei. So go check it out, George's own mother had renounced and could have been deported, if not for Collins.

terrible.moe•103 days ago

My takeaway is, beyond the children in cages and endless stream of social media posts begging for people to "do something" in the face of fascism, there will be decades of mind-numbing bureaucracy that will entail from the next 4 years, regardless of whether Trump becomes dictator for life or not.

terrible.moe•103 days ago

CHANGE OF TOPIC: But what does the immediate case of "being sent to the camps" mean?

A lot of people here equate concentration camps to the death camps in Germany, the genocidal extreme when wishing to implement ethnic cleansing within one's own populace. But the Americans didn't do that.

terrible.moe•103 days ago

And here-in lies the biggest crock of shit they're going to try to sell you on. I think the average American isn't going to stand for death camps. There certainly are the vocal people who are convinced the race war and death camps are a necessity, but it's hard to keep people feeling good about it.

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