It's getting heated; I'll just clear a few things up. The thread is about US treatment of Japanese Americans during WW2, subsequent apologies, and the question of whether those apologies are sufficient reparation.
My contention is that with racially/nationally motivated acts like this, apologies and throwing money at people is not sufficient, and the best reparation is to try to prevent something like this happening again. I then suggested that lessons have not been learned, because tensions about race and national identity are rising all the time, stoked by the president. Further, I would suggest that any politicians (of either side) who don't call him out on this are complicit.
That's all. I'm not going after Trump supporters. I'm saying that a lesson needs to be learned, and it's not being learned.
I also notice that you didn't respond to my reply about a Muslim ban. So, straight up, was there, or was there not a Muslim ban? How about you address this one and only this one point.
Regarding the Muslim travel ban, I said I wasn't going to post a load of charts and statistics, but I did
link out to some.
Also I said I wasn't going after Trump supporters, and that some of the acts on the list I posted were
by Trump-opponents
against Trump-supporters.
Saying that there are a lot of attacks on Trump supporters just reinforces my point. Trump incites hatred. He gets people fighting against each other. People from both sides. Indeed his constant banging on about Mexicans and Muslims and whoever else helps to create and reinforce those sides in the first place. If there is no racism, then there are no 'sides', people are just people irrespective of skin colour, religion, or nation of birth.
If you punch someone in the face, then say sorry and give them a dollar, then punch someone else in the face a couple of minutes later, then the apology and the compensation look kind of meaningless.
^^ My whole argument can be distilled to this.