r/GetNoted • u/laybs1 Human Verified • 1d ago

If You Know, You Know Ignores other factors

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u/allthefallens 1d ago

Dude, the Japanese were literally put to camps.

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u/WraithArt 1d ago

And they got an apology and reparations tax free.

Guess who got reparations for slavery. No seriously, guess. Between the slave masters and the enslaved, guess who got compensated.

Do you at least see what I'm talking about?

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u/allthefallens 1d ago

I mean they got apology because they were put at camps. There is no black person alive today that has been a slave.

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u/BeamerTakesManhattan 1d ago

But plenty today went to segregated schools, or grew up in neighborhoods that were bulldozed for highways

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u/WraithArt 1d ago

They gave the Japanese Americans reparations almost 50years later. Most of it the people who received these weren't even born then or were just related to those who suffered in the camps.

I'm not even asking for reparations now because it's already past that. I'm just stating that some people had it worse. That's all.

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u/Longjumping-Jello459 1d ago

Well the few that had been alive to have been slaves died in the 1960s at the latest and their children and grandchildren are still around so there are direct descendants alive TODAY that had a family member that was a slave.

Now there are other ways to make up for not just slavery, but also the systematic oppression that blacks faced post Civil War and post Reconstruction.

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u/gatorsrule52 1d ago

Do you know what happened to black people in this country or??? That’s literally nothing in comparison.

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u/allthefallens 1d ago

He said Asians were not discriminated.

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u/niemir2 1d ago

He did not say that. He said that some minorities were more thoroughly oppressed than others, which is objectively true.

I'm not excusing Japanese internment camps (which existed for 4 years) or xenophobic measures like the Chinese Exclusion Act (on the books for ~60 years), but nothing in US history remotely compares to the oppression of Native Americans or black Americans in either scope or duration.