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You mean when Japan bombed us
Pic Context
Mrs. B. G. Miller, a member of the Hollywood Protective Association, points to an anti-Japanese sign reading 'removed Keep Moving - This is a White Man's Neighborhood', on her house on Tamarind Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, May 1923. Other houses in the street have similar signs and are a response to Japanese Americans buying a property on the street in order to build a Japanese Presbyterian Church.
My grandma held onto a hatred of the Japanese for most of her life. Both of my grandpas were in WW2 and she never forgot it.
I remember as a kid her saying terrible things about "those removed", and we lived out in the sticks in a fly-over state where there likely wasn't a Japanese person for 300 miles in any direction.
I always thought it was weird when I was little that she used to say those things but only when I was older did I ever ask why grandma was such a racist.
In her view, the whole reason her husband had to go to war and became a hardcore alcoholic was because of them and that never changed.
I have family living there and my grandma was born during the war, so no hate from her but she never ever figured out how to pronounce Japan. She emphasizes the first syllable so it sounds like the slur and then -pan. If she says Japanese she pronounces the firsr syllable normal. Its weird
In middle school I knew a kid who said he still hated the Japanese for WW2. He also claimed to have hammered splinters under his own fingernails to 'see what it was like' but I doubt that.
I wish art nouveau still had an influence on mass typography. Even this hog could make an H, M, and N that's prettier than any advertisement font today and it's purely because they grew up in the 1910s when people gave a shit about their letters. I wish I could write an H like that without thinking about it.
I think its a professionally made sign
Please add a CW for racism
My honorary aryanirinos!
Been seeing that picture in textbooks for a couple decades now; didn't know it was from the 20s (predating the war) until now
I probably saved an image over 13 years ago that was "normies keep moving, this is a weeb neighborhood" (can't find where I had it) and never interrogated what the content of it actually was. I don't think I ever saw it unedited.
People in the U.S. always forget Japan bombed Pearl Harbor after the U.S. military set up blockades on their trade routes.
ahh yes... lets peddle apologia for the fucking japanese empire! who cares about unit 731? who cares about theremoved of nanking? who cares about comfort women and the railway of death? who cares about the mass beheadings and cannibalism? who cares about the manilla massacre? who cares about the romusha slaves and the three alls policy? who cares about the weaponization of bubonic plague and other diseases? about unit 8604? unit ei 1644? after all, why should we care about the massacres at laha airfield, or on bongka island or in calamba, in zhejiang and jiangxi provinces or the selarang square incident? the sook ching? the pit of ten thousand people? why should we care about unit 100, or the hanaoka water canal, the hell ships, or the kempeitai, or the mass infanticide, or the pig-basket executions, or the life vivisection of moro rebels, or the 99% death rate among chinese povs?....
after all, this technicality proves thst the allies were bad, actually!
anybody who upvoted that shit should be permabanned imho.
I don't think pointing out that it was in inter imperial conflict with provocations on both sides and that it didn't just materialize with the Japanese bombing pearl harbor for no real reason at all is in itself a defense of literally any of that, especially when the U.S. was also doing absolutely heinous and racist crimes against humanity both at the time and after winning the war
Like if you wanna say this is imperial japanese apologia, people could use the same logic to accuse you of u.s. apologia because even if you argue the U.S. only embargoed in responsec to Japan's crimes in manchuria and china you're supporting the idea that WWII was a good v evil conflict and the U.S. was good and entirely motivated by wanting to stop those crimes, which i'm pretty sure you know wasn't the case
Never said Japan was good and the U.S. was bad. You could look at any country throughout history and find issues, like the U.S. commiting genocide against the native people who were living there.
The public school system in the U.S. relies heavily in books that are used in Texas. Texas buys a lot of books, book publishers aren't going to supply a different book for every state, so when WW2 is taught, it's taught as the Japanese just attacking the U.S. with no backstory. A lot of people go to public school, and don't learn any additional history, and then as adults, still wrongly think Japan bombed the U.S. with no prior action from the U.S.
Also, what's the deal with a US military base being way out in the Pacific like that? Nothing else to know about that, I'm sure.
CW Racism
All black and brown immigrants I have encountered were beyond polite. More than often incredibly kind and accommodating with my limitations. But the rich Japanese kidults ride their e-scooters into me and leave their cigerette butts everywhere.
One of them will get telekinesis and the whole thing is gonna spiral. Let them enjoy this while they can.
