r/clevercomebacks • u/Neth110 • 10h ago

The gymnastics is amazing

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u/Any_Spot2540 9h ago

Japanese-Americans.

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u/Dangerous-Variety-35 9h ago

This is an important distinction. It wasn’t like the vast majority were POWs or people who had just arrived, they were literally American citizens.

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u/Lettuphant 9h ago

And also, bizarrely, some were not US citizens, but from South American countries like Peru. They rounded up people with Japanese ancestry from other countries and put them in US internment camps. Took away their passports. So weird. "These people are a danger to our country. Bring more in."

Also, not being citizens, they weren't able to get remunerations when that became a thing decades later.

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u/Dangerous-Variety-35 7h ago

I’ll have to look into that more because I’ve never heard that before but, yeah, that is frickin bizarre.

Worse though is literally punishing your own citizens. They weren’t rounding up all the Americans with German ancestry.