[quote name='gunm']So how do you purpose to deal with these "ethnic grievance-mongers" then? Were the Japanese Americans interred in camps in WWII lacking of a grievance? With all the special interest positions in Washington I don't think "Speaker to Asian Americans" is as easily dismissed as any other group out there.
Anyway, no one is asking you to apologize for anything, but your reaction to this one guy's decision to take a job at the White House, no matter how sublime, seems unnecessarily harsh. At worst, I'd just scratch my head at such young guy giving up a reasonably well-paying gig on a popular prime time TV show. I wouldn't lose respect for him altogether though.[/QUOTE]
When has youth ever stopped someone from becoming a true believer? He has become the model Obamaton.
Are you aware that immigrants and native-born Americans of German and Italian ancestry were also interned during WWII? That doesn't get much press because these groups know there were elements among them that genuinely did intend to support the other side given the chance.
The WWII internments have been grossly blown out of proportion and distorted largely because Jimmy Carter had no balls and no business being a national leader. Add to this that much of the Japanese message traffic that had been decrypted to our great advantage during the war was still classified due tot he decryption technology still being significant. Cheap personal computers put an end to that.
The fact is, the Japanese government at the start of the war genuinely believed they had a good number of people within the US that would carry out their bidding to undermine US capabilities. This was the same message traffic whose interception and decryption allowed many US victories, so it wasn't unreasonable for the messages regarding agents within the US to be taken seriously. Nobody who knows the full story is allowed or willing to give the details, from either side . Many such persons may have gone to their graves decades later without ever having broken cover because there was nothing meaningful they could do while interned.
Did this suck for the rest of the Japanese-Americans who were also affected? Of course. But then it sucked far more to be a resident of any of the places the Japanese had invaded with extraordinary brutality in the years before the US entered the war. War in general tends to hurt lots of innocent bystanders. This is why war is regarded as bad and isn't generally pursued just for shits and giggles.
The world has changed a great deal from that era. If all of the work regarding civil rights and equality along the way is really intended to mean anything, then it also means you make your complaints as a citizen and where you ancestors came from and what the weather was like there is a mere detail.
Having a liason just to pretend respect to special interests on basis of ancestry is something we should be long past. But dividing people is something the Left thrives upon and this is one of the ways they encourage people do it to themselves.
tards!
