Follow up…
…Eric is wrong. The creator is German.
Eugen Rochko, Russian national who moved to Germany at age 11.
That’s his official story.
It’s not the most salient fact, but it sure is interesting. Not sure that’s who I want “saving” American discourse at this point.
I always thought the Japanese internment camps and German equivalent in the 1910s were dumb, what kind of dumbass thinks there’s like a genetic political inheritance. Amazing, lib Anglos, 100 years later and you’ve kept up the same stupid ruse and you keep finding new all-to-willing rubes to fall for it.
The Japanese Internment Camps were heavily, heavily lobbied for by rich white Californian farmers. National security concerns were distinctly secondary. When the farmers got their way and all the Japanese Americans were rounded up and confined in camps the white farmers stole all of their land, farms, and possessions. They were never returned and I don’t believe any compensation was ever paid.
What happened next is kind of funny - Many of the Japanese American farmers were using different techniques than contemporary white farmers, and many were just far and away better at farming than their white contemporaries. So when vast swathes of their land were stolen the white thieves couldn’t maintain agricultural production and there was a significant agricultural shortage in the US. This lead directly to the famous campaign for “Victory gardens”, which were a propaganda effort to disguise the disaster by invoking patriotism.
This still happens today, by the way. The millions upon millions of people who have been forced in to exile at gunpoint over the last few decades had cars, houses, mortgages, all kinds of possessions. All that shit either gets repossessed or, if the victim is lucky, they can sell it for firesale prices before they’re forced out of the country with nothing. There’s always and economic angle.
Oh, like how the Nazis made big bucks liquidating the earthly possessions of Jews, Romani, homosexuals and socialists?
If you’re talking about the WW2 Japanese internment camps in the US, that was largely kicked off so the white agriculture businesses could steal land from Japanese farmers.
Bitter Harvest - Washington Post
The ensuing cluster fuck, as whites couldn’t maintain the same output as the Japanese farmers, was why we ended up needing Victory Gardens.
