Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "" video.

I'm not surprised, it's a ton of work and these days hard work in general isn't rewarded. So, anybody depending on hard work to get ahead is probably going to be worse off.
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The only way that people come to the conclusion that America had minority groups is via the racist belief that all white people are the same ethnicity. As if the Irish, Italians, Polish and Germans never had any real issues integrating and that we didn't invent entirely new terms to pretend like Spanish people, and their descendents, aren't white.
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Absolutely not, we need to stop pretending like white people are a thing. It's beyond ignorant to just keep splitting groups from the white category as if that is the solution. I'm extremely "white" and yet I failed my masters because I wasn't the right kind of white and they weren't even subtle about it. I was able to get a different degree, but it's far less useful, but because I don't smile as much as "white" people, that made me subhuman scum that didn't deserve equal access to education. Literally the reasons I was given came out of WWII era propaganda.
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@samanjj My wife is from Tehran and apart from her paranoia from growing up in a royalist household just after the revolution and during the Iran-Iraq war, people seem nicer to her than me. It's almost as if things are more complicated than people's ethnicity.
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Yes, but at least the ones that lived long enough got reparations and apologies. The German and Italian internees did not receive any of that. To date most people don't even know about the non-Japanese internees.
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@MostWantedYouTuber That's kind of how that has always worked in every other part of the world with every other group. I'm not sure why we need the racist insinuation that it's just white people in one country that think that. There isn't exactly an authority out there that divided up the world on any other basis than possession.
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Could you please stop lying about the internment camps, they weren't for Japanese Americans. That's a myth. They were for any ethic group living in the exclusion area that we were fighting at the time. The Japanese just happened to be more concentrated on the coast than the other groups were and as a result were more likely to go to the camps than the Italians and Germans were.
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@JeffLiwag That's wrong. The fallacy is completely different. Begging the question was correctly used here, there's not no indication that the fallacy was intended. Begging the question had been used to mean that something needs to be examined for ages.
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He could have taken the moment to mention the non-Japanese internees during WWII. I had an argument with my boss because he couldn't admit that there was no requirement that they be Japanese. Many were German or Italian, but others were Chinese.
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As a German American, that's f-ed up. At least people learn about the Japanese interned, most never learn about German or Italian internees.
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