No, "During World War II, roughly 90% of Japanese Americans were forced to live in detention camps". Two-thirds of those were US citizens by birth. About 110-120k were interned. They've had different camps for Germans and Italians, those were actually POWs, not German-Americans nor Italian-Americans (most of 'em), but were actually cought fighting n brought back to the States, there was a camp in Texas actually
I believe he's talking about the 160,000 Japanese-Americans in Hawaii, of which only 1,875 were sent to internment camps. https://time.com/5802127/hawaii-internment-order/
But, they were American citizens. In 1900, Congress approved the Hawaii Organic Act, which made Hawaii citizens US citizens. The Japanese American population in Hawaii was made up of Nisei, or second generation Japanese Americans who were born in the US and were citizens, and Sansei, or third generation Japanese Americans who were the children of Nisei. Together, the Japanese American population made up more than one-third of Hawaii's population during World War II.
Are we doing oppression Olympics comparing something that was objectively bad in the internment of thousands of Japanese residents and citizens for 3 years to a 75 year old occupation that has created an entire dehumanization hierarchical culture and society?
That's mildly interesting I suppose (and completely irrelevant to what anyone is talking about in this thread).
Some don't. But, a lot of Hawaiians, especially those Americans of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii are very patriotic. They did hold a statewide vote for statehood. In the 1959 referendum, 140,000 votes were cast, with 132,773 in favor of statehood and 7,971 opposed. The vote showed approval rates of at least 93% on all major islands.
Fun fact @CrixusTheUndefeatedGaul @AroundTheWorld @basso the F-15 was made by America to fight the Russians but the first kills by the jet was Israel blowing up a bunch of Syrian fighter jets lol obviously they don’t have a Palestinian Air Force Who would trust that airline anyways ? Rather be car jacked than hijacked
That was 14 years after the war, especially because alot of those islands were crucial parts of the war by the big guns, so they've probably thought its best to side with the biggest muscle (officiallybecome a state). Nowadays not so much, most of 'em never left Hawaii and if they did come to the land it was like any tourists (LV, NYC, Miami etc.), and they're Hawaiian first.
