Please explain/justify this

[AProudLefty]

I see the Holocaust as a secondary thing with regards to WW2. Brutality of that sort was pretty widespread and hardly limited to the Nazis. US internment of Japanese (and other) Americans was nothing by comparison. In fact, German and Italian POW's in that ended up shipped to the US had it pretty damn good. A low-ranked German enlisted man could make more money and eat better as a POW working on a volunteer job as say a farm worker in the US (yes, POW's were permitted to work jobs outside their camps) than he got paid to fight for the Nazis... Kind of disincentivizes fighting for the Nazis doesn't it?

Exactly. That is why we don't hear much about those internment camps, only in passing, unless perhaps in AP history classes or in college history classes.

And yes those POWs were treated way better by Americans. Stark contrast.

[Taichiliberal]

Exactly. That is why we don't hear much about those internment camps, only in passing, unless perhaps in AP history classes or in college history classes.

And yes those POWs were treated way better by Americans. Stark contrast.

Meanwhile, black Vets were returning to Jim Crow states, and generally getting the shaft regarding G.I. Bill benefits. Go figure.

[AProudLefty]

Meanwhile, black Vets were returning to Jim Crow states, and generally getting the shaft regarding G.I. Bill benefits. Go figure.

That's true.

[Dachshund]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...rati-rcna35948

I am being serious. I don't understand the logic of denying a book about internment camps because it doesn't present "both sides".

I would love to understand the rational for this. Please!

The pop music industry often has a strong educational influence on kids even though its songs are rarely included in the official curriculum of public schools. (And I'm not talking about the "cookie-cutter" shit that bird-brains like Taylor Swift and Justin Beiber et al. dish up).


This song by the English band "Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark" sold over 5 million singles world wide.


It's about the flight of the American B-52 bomber named "Enola Gay" that dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. while Japan and America were still at war.


But the song only tells the American side of the story, so it must be racist, bigoted, Xenophobic, etc; Right ?



Dachshund



DLM....Dachshund Lives Matter !

[Taichiliberal]

The pop music industry often has a strong educational influence on kids even though its songs are rarely included in the official curriculum of public schools. (And I'm not talking about the "cookie-cutter" shit that bird-brains like Taylor Swift and Justin Beiber et al. dish up).


This song by the English band "Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark" sold over 5 million singles world wide.


It's about the flight of the American B-52 bomber named "Enola Gay" that dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. while Japan and America were still at war.


But the song only tells the American side of the story, so it must be racist, bigoted, Xenophobic, etc; Right ?



Dachshund



DLM....Dachshund Lives Matter !

First off, the song was pure Euro fluff garbage of it's time .... it only sold big numbers in Europe, of which Americans never heard of and really don't give a damn about, being that we are the folk that gave the world soul & rock & roll.....and if it was the B-side of a more successful song, it was counted as a solo success...an old marketing ploy.

The song is a lightly cynical & admonishing about Hiroshima, not an endorsement or approving about the action....if one has the historical gravitas and musical savvy to catch the lyrics. So I would expect a 3rd rate neo-nazi/David Duke wanna be like yourself to incorrectly assert the notion that you do. Carry on, my sheet wearing bumpkin.