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1. sim@shitposter.club's status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 01:07:26 JST sim

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   • sim
   "According to a Los Angeles Times editorial,
   
   A viper is nonetheless a viper wherever the egg is hatched... So, a Japanese American born of Japanese parents, nurtured upon Japanese traditions, living in a transplanted Japanese atmosphere...notwithstanding his nominal brand of accidental citizenship almost inevitably and with the rarest exceptions grows up to be a Japanese, and not an American... Thus, while it might cause injustice to a few to treat them all as potential enemies, I cannot escape the conclusion...that such treatment...should be accorded to each and all of them while we are at war with their race."
   
   Big oof.
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 01:07:26 JST LS

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     @sim dang, the constitution really protected the rights of all these americans
   • sim@shitposter.club's status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 01:07:27 JST sim
     "I don't want any of them [persons of Japanese ancestry] here. They are a dangerous element. There is no way to determine their loyalty... It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen, he is still a Japanese. American citizenship does not necessarily determine loyalty... But we must worry about the Japanese all the time until he is wiped off the map."
     -Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt.
     
     Oof. I guess that is the problem of citizenship, whether you have it or not... it doesn't mean that you will be loyal to the nation or the government. How can you determine that? You used to bribe people... but that was easier when you only had to bribe the nobles. Then again, even they turned against the monarch from time to time.