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What Americans don't learn about is that the famine we nearly triggered here during WWII was caused by seizing farms owned by Japanese Americans and then runnin
by hinkley 2y ago
What Americans don't learn about is that the famine we nearly triggered here during WWII was caused by seizing farms owned by Japanese Americans and then running them into the fucking ground. I've heard claims that the food rationing would have been totally unnecessary if not for that.
Most of them didn't get those farms back after the war either.
- hermitcrab 2y agoGeorge Takei (yes, the guy off Star Trek) has talked in detail about his family's terrible experiences of internment during WWII.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y agoI'd learned about the internment camps from a human rights perspective, and the loss of family businesses, but I'm ashamed to admit I'd never learned about the economic impact until now. I had to check the veracity of this, and it seems to be true. By 1945, Japanese American farms were responsible for 30%+ of the agricultural output of California.
- hinkley 2y agoI only heard about this a few years ago. About the fourth time I listened to someone talk about the camps. Which we did talk about during school but very briefly.