{"id":552,"date":"2015-11-26T08:34:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T08:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=552"},"modified":"2015-12-14T08:58:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T08:58:48","slug":"hey-donald-trump-japanese-internment-was-paranoid-and-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/11\/26\/hey-donald-trump-japanese-internment-was-paranoid-and-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Donald Trump: Japanese internment was paranoid and racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2442097.1448058039!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_635\/gop-2016-trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4140050\/donald-trump-muslims-japanese-internment\/\" target=\"_blank\"> not sure if he would&#8217;ve supported or opposed Japanese internment<\/a> during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>He told Time Magazine that he &#8220;hates the concept of it,&#8221; but added: &#8220;War is tough. And winning is tough. We don\u2019t win anymore. We don\u2019t win wars anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To be clear, Japanese American internment is almost universally considered one of the most egregious things the United States has done to an entire ethnic group<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/content\/dam\/slate\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2015\/11\/151119_JURIS_japanese-internment-camps.jpg.CROP.promo-xlarge2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"842\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/11\/24\/9787144\/internment-japanese-data\">Click Here<\/a>\u00a0to read on.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he&#8217;s not sure if he would&#8217;ve supported or opposed Japanese internment during World War II. He told Time Magazine that he &#8220;hates the concept of it,&#8221; but added: &#8220;War is tough. And winning is tough. We don\u2019t win anymore. We don\u2019t win wars anymore.&#8221; To be clear, Japanese American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/11\/26\/hey-donald-trump-japanese-internment-was-paranoid-and-racist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hey Donald Trump: Japanese internment was paranoid and racist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21,23,67,32,77,34,40,70,55,72,57,112,4,65,31,51,17,111,38],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-american-history","tag-asian-american","tag-bias","tag-caucasian","tag-discrimination","tag-ethnicity","tag-immigrants","tag-mass-incarceration","tag-minorities","tag-model-minority","tag-poc","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-racial-identity","tag-racial-inequality","tag-racism","tag-reparations","tag-war","tag-white-privilege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}