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> The trade war with China has spread to demonization of Asians. Has it really though? I agree with pretty much everything else you said (though I’m unsure if
by hacknat 6y ago
> The trade war with China has spread to demonization of Asians.
Has it really though? I agree with pretty much everything else you said (though I’m unsure if getting a gun is warranted).
I don’t think a trade war with China will spur too much in the way of anti-Asian sentiment. Americans were generally able to differentiate between Russians and their government during the Cold War.
I’m not saying there won’t be notable stories that pop here or there, but I don’t think this country is actually as Nativist as the press makes it out to be.
We’ll see I guess.
Stay safe!
- echaozh 6y agoWhat do you even mean if you call the US nativist? Native American Supremacist?
- hacknat 6y ago"Nativist" is a common historical term in the United States to mean someone who is anti-immigration and (usually) anti-immigrant, and tends to be strongly associated with white supremacy.
- niihau_island 6y ago> Americans were generally able to differentiate between Russians and their government during the Cold War. And just 20 years before that the Japanese internment camps happened.
- adultSwim 6y agoSharp contrast between concentration camps for Japanese and Japanese Americans with the treatment of Germans and Nazi sympathizers
- mbg721 6y agoThat was because the Allies expected the Germans to obey "rules of war" in the European tradition, and knew that the Japanese wouldn't. An American GI would be much happier as a POW of Germany than of Japan.
- hacknat 6y agoSome German Americans were actually interned[1]. About 1/10th the amount of Japanese that were interned, but also not nothing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans