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Re:The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes by niihau_island on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:29AM (#26076239)
> Americans were generally able to differentiate between Russians and their government during the Cold War.

And just 20 years before that the Japanese internment camps happened.

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Re:The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes by adultSwim on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:22PM (#26085729)
Sharp contrast between concentration camps for Japanese and Japanese Americans with the treatment of Germans and Nazi sympathizers
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Re:The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes by hacknat on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:45PM (#26092357)
Some German Americans were actually interned[1]. About 1/10th the amount of Japanese that were interned, but also not nothing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans

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Re:The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes by mbg721 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:27PM (#26085748)
That was because the Allies expected the Germans to obey "rules of war" in the European tradition, and knew that the Japanese wouldn't. An American GI would be much happier as a POW of Germany than of Japan.
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