[thegaulofthem]

In Charleston, SC we have a number of local groups that were German-American social clubs that were forced to abandon their native culture and affiliations to appease the mob. You’ll never hear anything of it, there is no care to apologize by dignitaries here that you expect to see during AAPI month for the Japanese.

I wonder why Japanese Americans get this kind of outpouring of support we see in the thread in a way that German Americans would never get, having been shit on for not one but two world wars.

That you’re being currently downvoted for mentioning this fact is itself concerning.

[dragonwriter]

> I wonder why Japanese Americans get this kind of outpouring of support we see in the thread in a way that German Americans would never get

Because nothing like what happened to US citizens of Japanese descent happened directly at government hands to citizens of German descent. German-Americans were not involuntarily interned (aside from people, including US citizens, of Japanese descent, only nationals of enemy powers were involuntarily interned; the only German-Americans who were interned were family members of enemy aliens, and that only because the government chose not to forcibly separate them.) Internment of aliens owing allegiance to an enemy state in a time of war categorically different than doing so to your own citizens based only on ethnicity.