Jack Ohman for March 06, 2021

History matters. Not just the part you know about, but the part that has influenced what you were taught, what things you automatically do without any conscious thought. And lots of ceteras. There’s a reason why “role model” used to be something that we cared about… and that question at the end: It’s because at least in part, we have some pretty awful role models these days.

Cruelty, lies, and racism are all the GQP has left

So many people hate just so they can feel superior to someone else, since they can’t do it on their own merits.

We have to have them in order for us to feel superior!! And that pretty much sums up the situation!!

:-(

Gee, I wonder?

The entire history of this continent since the Europeans came (I will not speak to the time prior) is one of dehumanizing, abusing for profit and power, and a sense of entitlement. If we are honest, we must say this applies to every populated continent (we can leave Antarctica out of it). No other continent’s people have had such a broad and devastating effect on the populations of the world.

Asians are easier to identify than Jews, less organized than Catholics. Perfect targets for racists, and we have plenty of those.

It happened because too many people listened to a racist old fart.

Human nature of hating those who don’t look like “us” . . . just for starters . . .

No clue? Anyone?

Got to vilify you enemies.. turn them into baby eating devil’s spawn. It’s what has inspired armies since the dawn of time. And, sadly.. we have not changed much.

FDR signed off on the interment camps for the domestic Japanese population. Anti-Asian bigotry was rife in both parties prior to the civil rights era.

As a half-breed Cherokee I feel left out.

Of course, China is unscrupulous to the core and all Asian pay the price!!

QAnon, because Scientologists need someone to laugh at.

Read “To the Stars” by George “Sulu” Takai for a first-hand account of life in the Japanese Internment camps during World War 2.

Sigh. Some things never change.1970s. Big push. Buy American. So it eventually worked down to buy only from American owned business.Stores began posting “American owned and Operated” signs.Fort Worth, Texas. Westland area.A motel on the far west side of town. I stayed there once. It was a low rent place. Clean and cheap.The owner was Asian-looking. He posted a giant “AOO” sign.So a pretty young thing learning to be a “big city TV reporter” was made aware of this, so on the company dime, complete with camera crew, she journeys into the Hinterland. She is going to expose this fraudster.I don’t remember the details, but she is interviewing the guy. He is stringing her along. Finally she gets to the question as to why she’s here.“Where are you from?”, she asked.“Joisey”, he answered. I think I fell out of my chair laughing..The PYT, persisted. “Where were your parents from”"“Joisey”, said the guy.PYT pressed on, "Where were your family originally from?.Reply, “Lady, I don’t know, my family has lived in New York for as long as anyone knows.” This was all spoken in a very “Joisey” accent. That’s about all they showed on TV.

The problem is “they” look different from “us”.

Sad how easily a politician can spur violence… even sadder how many people are so easily spurred into violence…

We elected an ignorant bigot/racist that enabled and encouraged the other ignorant bigot/racists.

GQP hates the majority of Americans.

https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=chinese+exclusion+act+of+1882&&view=detail&mid=D34B04A2D108DAC3A745D34B04A2D108DAC3A745&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dchinese%2Bexclusion%2Bact%2Bof%2B1882%26qpvt%3Dchinese%2Bexclusion%2Bact%2Bof%2B1882%26FORM%3DVDRE

Cutting Jack, very cutting.

1882 anti-Asian exclusion act. Even Asians of American birth were refused return

1942 anti-Asian incarceration Act (Nothing similar for Germans and Italians)

2019 RJT’s anti-Asian rhetoric even though all of his businesses are in China

750% rise in anti-Asian violence

Anyone see a correlation here?

Those people who left the republican party are not coming back until lying racist Trump is out of the picture.