Quote from: JollyGood on March 02, 2020, 12:08:39 PM

Yes there were lots of things going on during that time, it was a different era and racism was much more overt than it is today across the globe. Having said all that what would be the aim of the California state assembly now? Just an apology and move forward or do you think there is another deeper agenda for making the apology now? (I use the word agenda with neither positive or negative connotations).

Quote from: Spendulus on March 02, 2020, 01:45:53 AM

Looking into it further, I think you are right on some points and so am I.

The approximate 1/3 of the group who were actually Japanese citizens - I do not see what could have been done with them except intern them.

For the others, it does appear CA had state - level racist policies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

Of 127,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, 112,000 resided on the West Coast.[9] About 80,000 were Nisei (literal translation: "second generation"; American-born Japanese with U.S. citizenship) and Sansei ("third generation"; the children of Nisei). The rest were Issei ("first generation") immigrants born in Japan who were ineligible for U.S. citizenship under U.S. law.[10]

Japanese Americans were incarcerated based on local population concentrations and regional politics. More than 112,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were forced into interior camps. However, in Hawaii, where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans composed over one-third of the population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were also interned.[11] The internment is considered to have resulted more from racism than from any security risk posed by Japanese Americans.[12][13] California defined anyone with 1/16th or more Japanese lineage as sufficient to be interned.[14] Colonel Karl Bendetsen, the architect behind the program, went so far as saying anyone with "one drop of Japanese blood" qualified.[15]

Absolutely it's a "deeper agenda." Part of the new "woke left" is an attempt to create the appearances of their having a moral-ethical voice that dictates when people should do things and when they should say things. That's simply an attempt to gain power over others.

Part of this is dictating when one group should apologize to another. In this context, facts and truth are in the way, and go out the window. For example, take the argument articulated by Cnut in this thread.

He did not tell you that 1/3 of those put in the camps were Japanese citizens, did he? Most of the others were children of the Japanese citizens.

If there was an actual, serious effort to "make things right" what it would consist of would be to give Asians a fair chance in university admissions There they are still being discriminated against in favor of essentially, racial quotas; eg preference given to blacks with lower test scores, and whites from privileged backgrounds. Oddly it's the same people who try to tell you who needs to apologize to who, and what pronouns you and I should use, that are complicit in the prejudice in college admissions against Asians.