Double standards and racism

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Originally posted by A Black Falcon
Well... sort of. While the Germans, etc were also slurred, it was different towards Japanese. Just look at any World War II US propaganda cartoons or comics... generally, Germans are not looked at NEARLY as harshly and nowhere near as stereotyped... Note that only Japanese-Americans were put in camps by the government, not German-Americans... No, the US treatment of Asians was markedly worse than its treatment of Europeans. Its a fact and its why in those comics while Hitler is more often a foolish character, Japanese are either evil or ridiculous (stereotypes of them were pretty bad). I t doesn't take looking much US stuff from the period to figure out that... it was fortunate for the Germans that they were European.

Yes but bear in mind, not only did Germany not attack us, but they were not an immediate threat to us anyway. The Japanese attacked us directly, and they were a much more apparent threat.

In retrospect though, in the years since the war, making fun of the Germans has always been more popular.