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UCLA student posts rash racist video ranting about Asians in the library, promptly regrets it
OK, here’s the first lesson of the Internet era, and especially social media: You can’t it back if you say or do something stupid online. When I first saw UCLA co-ed Alexandra Wallace’s hastily posted video on YouTube, I was appalled and planned to pounce on it. But after a little thought, I decided to […]
Some people think Japan’s earthquake and tsunami are payback for Pearl Harbor? Really?
I was shocked, saddened and depressed when I learned that there are people in the United States who think that the Tohoku Kanto Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, which has caused enormous damage and casualties that will surely top 10,000, is some sort of karmic payback for Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor. Really? Seriously? Yes, unfortunately. […]
Thoughts on the Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake and tsunami from a Japanese American in Denver
Unless you live in California, most Americans can’t imagine what it’s like to be in a minor earthquake, never mind a major one. As a kid in Japan, I lived through lots of little quakes. They were no big deal. If the quake seemed serious or went on too long, we’d simply go outside and […]
Rep. King’s Muslim radicalization hearings eerily echo the era of Japanese American internment
Here’s a post worth reading and thinking about by Eric Muller at Faculty Lounge, “Representative King’s Investigation and the Ghost of Hearings Past” that notes that NY Rep. Peter King’s hearings on the radicalization of Muslims echoes the experience of history during World War II. Muller points out the race-based hysteria at the start of […]
Disturbing video of anti-Muslim protesters in Yorba Linda, Calif screaming at Muslim families
This video made me literally cry. It’s of protesters (includig elected officials) in Yorba Linda, Calif. outside of a fundraising event for homelessness, by a relief organization that happens to be Muslim-based. As attendees arrived, they were subjected to what I can only call hate language. My stomach clenched when I heard “Go home!” and […]
