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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: You ain't Done Nothin' if You ain't been called a Red:
Message-ID: <1482@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 11:54:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 11:54:44 1985
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Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
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In article <1843@teddy.UUCP> lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney) writes:
>In article <1468@jhunix.UUCP> ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) writes:
>>In article <441@whuts.UUCP> orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
>>>2)Tell me, Frank, when were "fascists" or "suspected fascists" either sent
>>>  to jail or blacklisted for the rest of their careers as "Reds" were
>>>  in the 1950's, or as "Reds' were during the Palmer Raids during WW I?
>>World War II, the detention of Japanese-Americans.  Not *quite* jail but close.
>This isn't a fair analogy.  The Japanese-Americans were imprisoned soley
>because they were Japanese, not because of suspected right-wing politics.
>The internments were due to the racist viewpoint that all Americans of
>Japanese descent held allegiance to Japan, regardless of political
>viewpoint.

So why was that a reason to imprison them?  People may have thought that
Chinese-Americans owed allegiance to China, but they weren't imprisoned,
because at the time few people thought there was anything wrong with
allegiance to China.  The imprisonment was due to the racist viewpoint
that Japanese Americans all "held allegiance to Japan" but that essentially
meant that they were accused of working for a right-wing government.
The accusation was racist, but it still meant that they were accused of
being right-wingers; the racism was in the assumption used to deduce that
they were right-wingers.
-- 
If you know the alphabet up to 'k', you can teach it up to 'k'.

Kenneth Arromdee
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