This is what is so baffling to me. Do they think Japanese-Americans are Chinese Nationalists? Do they just not understand the difference between China and Asia? Do they not know that Asian immigrants have been settling in the US for hundreds of years?
The only conclusion I can reach is that lead poisoning has destroyed any capacity for logic or rationality.
It's the same mentality that led to Sikhs and Indians getting attacked at the peak of the anti-muslim hysteria surrounding the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. They were brown therefore they were just lumped together by the racists.
This is what is so baffling to me. Do they think Japanese-Americans are Chinese Nationalists? Do they just not understand the difference between China and Asia? Do they not know that Asian immigrants have been settling in the US for hundreds of years?
The only conclusion I can reach is that lead poisoning has destroyed any capacity for logic or rationality.
It's the same mentality that led to Sikhs and Indians getting attacked at the peak of the anti-muslim hysteria surrounding the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. They were brown therefore they were just lumped together by the racists.
And anyone short and brown being a Mexican.
I'm kind of taken aback by the number of people that I know that still refer to anyone Asian as Chinese :yikes-1: :yikes-2: :yikes-3: