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Old 08-18-2017, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by bdorman View Post
I agree with the first part of your statement regarding the chances of a terror attack in TV,

but let's not forget that we forced tens of thousands of people of Japanese descent (many of whom were US citizens) into "internment" camps for the duration of WWII. Just sayin' we didn't defeat Japan without exhibiting some local paranoia too.
We had been at war with Japan just before that happened.. I was a little, little girl but I remember that people were afraid, not paranoid, but afraid. They were afraid of German descendants too. I was a German descendant. You cannot start painting history differently later on. It happened. People were afraid. Now people are not. Your statement above is flawed, if you had lived then, you would have felt the same fear.
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