Tag: japanese internment

Amache

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 18, 2022

We have our first new National Park Service site under Biden (not including him making Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante whole) and it is a much needed one, making another of the Japanese concentration camp sites part of the NPS. President Biden signed the Amache National Historic Site Act today, designating the Amache site in […]

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LGM Film Club, Part 219: Japanese Relocation

By Erik Loomis

On November 2, 2021

This is one of the truly most reprehensible pieces of government propaganda I have ever seen produced by the United States. This is Milton Eisenhower narrating a 1942 film (I know the link says 1943,

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LGM Podcast: Environmental History of the Japanese Incarceration

By Erik Loomis

On June 24, 2020

For today’s podcast, I spoke to Connie Chiang, Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College, about her 2018 book Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the J

What on Earth Was the Los Angeles Times Thinking?

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 12, 2016

The Los Angeles Times is subject to a lot of outrage right now for printing letters to the editor that defended placing Japanese-Americans into concentration camps during World War II. What would cause them to do such a thing? The newspaper has apologized but there are deeper issues at play here. What are the boundaries […]

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Korematsu

By Erik Loomis

On December 18, 2013

Worth noting that today is the 69th anniversary of the notorious Korematsu v. United States decision, when the Supreme Court ruled for the acceptability of Japanese concentration camps. Early in World

Gee Suss (Note to regular readers of the blog: 8 man is a gun advocate and trains Future Mass Shooters of America[tm]. He is a liar and a coward)
My little town · May 25, 2022
Roger Ailes His daddy bought him that individualism and he's going to use it, even if tens of thousands of Iraqis have to die for it.
Asshole of the Year · May 25, 2022
apogean ban guns and pay people a bounty for turning them in. That's what Australia did and I'm positive people will jump on line a lot quicker for a hundred bucks than threat of force
My little town · May 25, 2022
brutusettu "Man up with guns" or how some learn to have the same issues but now know how to use long guns and eject a magazine of 223 and reload the weapon in a few seconds.
My little town · May 25, 2022
MikeBoyScout The author makes an allusion to intent of our ruling elite, but it really needs more attention and a helluva lot more amplification. Yesterday's tragic executions in our school is clearly not an...
My little town · May 25, 2022