I have never heard anyone pretend that Japanese internement didn't happen. But just because something bad happened to you and your family, that does not give y

I have never heard anyone pretend that Japanese internement didn't happen. But just because something bad happened to you and your family, that does not give you the right to attack and hurt others. I see some examples where she was doing a lot of good and held great views: Kochiyama also taught English to immigrant students and volunteered at soup kitchens and homeless shelters in New York City.[13] In Debbie Allen's television series Cool Women (2001), Kochiyama stated, "The legacy I would like to leave is that people try to build bridges and not walls." But she also worked and associated with violent people and had no problem excusing them: Kochiyama and other activists demanded the release of four Puerto Rican nationalists convicted of attempted murder—Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irving Flores Rodríguez—who in 1954 had opened fire in the House of Representatives, injuring five congressmen. Kochiyama also supported Yū Kikumura, an alleged member of the Japanese Red Army, who was arrested in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam in 1986 when he was found carrying a bomb in his luggage and subsequently convicted of planning to bomb a US Navy recruitment office in the Veteran's Administration building. I don't have time to dig into her entire history and see if all those accused of violent acts were justified or not but if you praise Osama bin Laden with one breath and then claim that "War and weaponry must be abolished" with the next, then you are not working for the abolition of violence, just want it to be controlled by people you like.