Letters about Japanese internment weren’t ‘civil, fact-based discourse’ – LA Times

Many Times readers have taken issue with two letters in this week’s Travel section, which criticized a Nov. 27 article about National Park sites that address issues of race and ethnicity in America’s history. The letters employed cultural stereotypes to suggest that the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was justified, and…

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Los Angeles Times publishes letters in defense of internment

“The interned Japanese were housed, fed, protected and cared for.” This is some kind of bullshit. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times published two letters from readers arguing that the forced mass removal and incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II was necessary and justified. The letters, published in the paper’s print…

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Were the stories about Japanese internment during World War II unbalanced? Two letter writers think so – LA Times

Note to readers: Two letters published in the L.A. Times Travel section in print on Sunday, Dec. 11, and here online did not meet editorial standards. Our Readers’ Representative will address this issue shortly. Japanese internment I see that writer Carolina A. Miranda has attached herself to the “I feel-good” contingent that feels sorry for the…

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The real secret to Asian American success was not education – The Washington Post

Some 70 years ago, this was the Asian stereotype. (Russell Lee, July 1942, Twin Falls, Idaho. Library of Congress) For those who doubt that racial resentment lingers in this nation, Asian Americans are a favorite talking point. The argument goes something like this: If “white privilege” is so oppressive — if the United States is so hostile…

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Steve Bannon Suggests There Are Too Many Asian CEOs In Silicon Valley | The Huffington Post

Steve Bannon, the man President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to be his chief strategist, expressed dismay at the number of tech execs who are immigrants from Asia. But Trump, who has pledged to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico to keep people out, has said he wants immigrants educated at Ivy League universities and therefore capable of…

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Chow Times: A Blog about Travel, Sports, Food, Drink, and Obscure Pop Culture: The Birth of Abomination: Why Fox News’ Racist Story Cuts Deep for Asian-Americans

Actress Madeline Kahn was yelling at me to take action, but I was too blinded by my own anger to listen. “Speak! Speak! Why don’t you speak?” Kahn screamed in a scene from “Young Frankenstein.” The clip is spliced into the now infamous “O’Reilly Factor” segment after Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters asks an elderly…

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Olivia Park Asian Women Are Not

“Asian women are not” is an installation displaying 100 posters that read “Asian women are not” followed by whatever online submissions were received by 100 different women. The army of posters served to list and communicate disgusting Asian woman stereotypes to passerbyers and drivers.  Source: Olivia Park Asian Women Are Not

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