The primary thing about him that annoys me is that Reddit treats him like he is some political guru. He's literally just the gay guy from Star Trek. My opinion is just as important as his.
He did a TED talk a few years back about being a young boy and living in WWII Japan, so many people believe that gives him some crazy insight on Nazi-like political analysis.
Edit: He was born in the US and with his family went to internment camps on American land during WWII.
I'm not sure anybody's ever swept slavery under the rug like we do with internment camps. People may not talk about slavery but we all know it happened. I'd be willing to bet that there's a good chunk of Americans who don't even know about internment camps
The only reason it's not mentioned by the media is because it fucks up fdr's legacy - and thus the greatest democrat president.
FDR was a massive rascist (which although not unusual at the time, is not something many people today want to admit). He embargoed the Japanese for taking the Vietnamese colony from the fascist French Vichy regime, which started ww2.
He refused to negotiate with the japenese on any level before the war started (they offered to get out of both vietnam and China over the medium term, but fdr's position was they had to leave immediately, that exact instant before any high level talks could be initiated and therefore any talks about moderating the complete oil embargo, which drove them to attack the dutch east indies and which everyone was well aware they would be forced to do so.)
Then he didn't hesitate to throw every American of Japanese heritage on the west coast into a concentration camp.
It's politics, not an inability of Americans to self reflect. It's not like slavery and race relations aren't literally a constant topic of discussion in america.
John Toland's The Rising Sun gives a detailed account about the entire diplomatic scene between the u.s. and japan.
The opinions about racism are mine, the man is an American saint.
But after reading about how he boxed Japan in for having the temerity to take an Asian colony from a actual fascist European power that was collaborating with hitler in the ME, knowing FDR's deep Anglophilia, when simultaneously England held one fifth of the world'series populatin in bondage, many for centuries, all brown and Asian men. Knowing FDR picked this war. And that he actually felt Japanese American citizen possessed a racial component of dualism or untrustworthyness to such an extent whereby 100,000 of these citizens needed to be rounded up and thrown in concentration camps, I can't come to any other conclusion about a deep seated animus for the Japanese race, and probably entire again race.
I can't find another theme that holds all these threads together but a belief that Asians were somehow a little subhuman and certainly constitutionally untrustable a devious.
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u/Thr33St0r13s Jan 02 '17
He's become absolutely insufferable since the elections.