I really enjoyed watching a show that wasn't about Evil White People but I guess this show had to get "relevant"?
shareEp1 is so bad, the white people are nothing but over the top villains, the story is murky, the pacing is glacial, and the Jap men are very 21st century in their relationships with women.
shareAnything staring women and minorities in 2019 is automatically against white people now?
shareNot necessarily. The production has to portray whites as universally evil oppressive racists, much like The Terror, Season 2 is doing so far.
sharePlease explain how order 1066 was anything but racist.
shareFirstly, the decision to base the show around those events indicates a desire to malign white people. Would the producers have chosen to make a The Terror season about the atrocities perpetrated by Imperial Japan against the Chinese civilians in Nanking, or against the American POW's on the Bataan Death March? I think not.
Secondly, there is not ONE non-Hispanic white person portrayed in a sympathetic light. Not every white in the film has to be racist, do they? The only major white character I recall so far is that despicable fish-buyer, who extorts the Japanese man's car from him after the Japanese man saves his life. He's a Simon Legree-like cartoon. I understand another monstrously evil white man will be played by C. Thomas Howell later in the series. All the non-whites are noble and wise, all the whites are evil racists.
In these times of racial unrest in America, how on earth is it considered a good thing to produce shows maligning whites as evil racists? How is that supposed to encourage anything but more hatred among viewers of both races?
The Japanese interment is not a subject often depicted in movies and TV. The only one I can think of offhand is Snow Falling on Cedars, and even then only tangentially. I think a time of racial "unrest" (not the word I would use, but whatever) is the perfect time to explore such subjects. We must always be willing to confront our past in order to ensure similar things don't happen in the future.
You also forgot about the professor who tried to help the guy escape with his girlfriend.
Has Chester's white buddy been depicted as an evil racist? How about his college professor (which you may not know about if you didn't bother with the 2nd ep)?
And how would you know about C Thomas Howell? Why look into a show you already bailed on after one ep?
I don't disagree with all you say -- but when you glance, exaggerate then condemn in a post here, you're doing the same thing you claim the show is trying to do to its viewers.
How do you think Japan spied in those days? With people on the ground who would draw maps, pace off distances, note the movement of military and civilian war assets, and try to turn vulnerable Americans. It's difficult to clarify people's identity today, imagine then.
shareThen why didn't we throw all the Germans and Italians into camps too?
shareYou didn't answer my question, why should I answer yours? I'm not chasing your goalpost. If you want to talk about Japanese then make your case but I'm not interested in 20/20 hindsight or applying 21st century mores to the 1940s. Keep in mind the decisions made in those days allow you the luxury of armchair quarterbacking so maybe show some gratitude.
shareWere they afraid that children and infants were also spies? There's no way to explain why they were interred as well without racism.
shareWhat else were they going to do with the children? You originally asked, "Please explain how order 1066 was anything but racist," and I answered you. (9066 fyi) We can look back and say it was unnecessary and therefore cruel and purely racially motivated but the people making decisions didn't have the luxury of 20/20 hindsight. You can believe that you are better than them, that you would have made different choices because you are enlightened; but we all live in the time in which we are born.
sharePlenty of people at the time also thought it was racist. The Supreme Court dissent is incidentally also the first time the court used that word in a decision. You're acting like this was some distant time. It wasn't, and there are people who were alive then that are still alive now.
What about orphans? Your'e telling me they had no choice but to put those kids in camps, because they had no other choice?
The bottom line is that this was an action entirely motivated by racism. They never even bothered to take the time to judge who, and who wouldn't, be a security risk. They rounded them all up based entirely on the criteria of their race. No amount of handwringing can change that fact.
They pointedly did not do this to people of German and Italian decent. They kept an eye on them, and took further action if it was ever warranted. Half my family is German and my grandmother told me about how the FBI could be seen sometimes with binoculars watching them at their german Swim and Sports Club.
Anti-immigrant hysteria, both legal and illegal, has reared its ugly head again. It's important that we portray such events in media because it easy for the people to forget the mistakes of the past and repeat them.
Well said. It's like those that argue that dropping the atomic bombs was racist against asians.....yet it ultimately saved millions of Japanese lives by removing the need to invade the home islands (and all the collateral damage it would have caused).
shareI mean, I agree. But I don't see how that has anything to do with what I said.
shareHardly The main carachter has several white friends that helped him out (one friend, and his teacher).
It's hard to look back through the lens of modern times, but it was a very racist, top down society back than. Just ask anyone who was sent to the camps. I have several friends whos families were sent there, have heard first hand.
Putting Asians on camps doesn't help your case for white people.
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