Consider us ardent fan-boys of Sociological Images, a blog that almost always makes us think, and when it doesn't, it makes us wish we had. This time, the SI ladies pointed out a WWII-era U.S. War Department propaganda video that bleakly outs a government trying its darnedest to portray the imprisonment of 100,000+ Japanese American men, women, and children as the beneficent, caring, actions of a government protecting its citizens from the menace of Japanese provocateurs living among us.
Six thoughts came to our mind as we watched the film. That sort of thing doesn't happen often, so we decided to write them down:
Six thoughts came to our mind as we watched the film. That sort of thing doesn't happen often, so we decided to write them down: