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Ruth Lee, a Chinese-American woman, flying the flag of China while at the beach to avoid being mistaken for Japanese, Miami, USA, WW2, December 15, 1941 (lemmy.world)
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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

The absurdity of racism is all the more exposed when what an arbitrary social construct it is is highlighted. Throw the Japanese-Americans in internment camps and forbid them from serving the military with white people - but praise Chinese-Americans as allies against Imperialism(tm) and let them serve as officers in non-segregated units with white folk.

I mean, don't get me wrong, it's great that WW2-era white America got over its anti-Chinese racism for ten seconds, but it would have been a nice bonus had it not been just another extension of racism's arbitrary nature.