Yeah the racist conspiracies happening now regarding non-white immigrants is basically just a rehash of the same racist conspiracies used as a pretext to illegally imprison Japanese Americans and steal their land in WWII. It’s been awhile since I read about it so I don’t remember if the strawberry fields were supposedly pointing at radar, or if they were “surrounding critical installations” or “staging grounds for invasion” or whatever, but basically capitalists wanted that land.
As weak as that pretext was it’s still more coherent than, “data center opposition is due to Chinese paid protestors” or, “they’re eating the cats and dogs.” So we’ve even grown more stupid and lazy with our racist pretexts which is pretty damning.
Hadn’t heard of this one but seems perfectly on brand
Yeah the racist conspiracies happening now regarding non-white immigrants is basically just a rehash of the same racist conspiracies used as a pretext to illegally imprison Japanese Americans and steal their land in WWII. It’s been awhile since I read about it so I don’t remember if the strawberry fields were supposedly pointing at radar, or if they were “surrounding critical installations” or “staging grounds for invasion” or whatever, but basically capitalists wanted that land.
As weak as that pretext was it’s still more coherent than, “data center opposition is due to Chinese paid protestors” or, “they’re eating the cats and dogs.” So we’ve even grown more stupid and lazy with our racist pretexts which is pretty damning.