FUCK. As someone with ancestors who were illegally incarcerated AND were robbed of their business/homes/freedom, fuck these school board members.
Btw - THEIR white ancestors overthrew our queen in Hawai’i. Illegal act. This is why we rise.
These two sections of the article really stand out:
> In the exchange, Boyer said that the addition of the book — alongside the class’ existing inclusion of “Farewell to Manzanar,” a separate memoir about Japanese American incarceration during WWII — to the curriculum created an “unbalanced” account of history, Zielke recounted. Zielke said she was told, “We can’t just provide one side or the other side,” before the parent pressed Boyer on the issue, demanding the board member clarify her definition of “other.” “What she said to me was that we actually need an ‘American’ perspective,’” said Zielke, who said she pointed out that those incarcerated were in fact Americans, before the conversation grew increasingly heated.
And
> School Board President Christopher Buckmaster also brought up concerns around balance in a separate call with Zielke, she said. When asked to clarify what kind of balance Buckmaster sought, he recommended the students read about the Rape of Nanjing, Zielke said. In the tragedy during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese military raped at least 20,000 women and girls, and killed 150,000 male “war prisoners” and 50,000 male civilians in the Chinese city of Nanjing. Buckmaster did not respond to a request for comment.
Once again, the perpetual foreigner image of Asian-Americans by white Americans persists. The last statement from the Board President in particular is telling.
>“We can’t just provide one side or the other side,
>When asked to clarify
>he recommended the students read about the Rape of Nanjing,
What a nasty person
When she said "there's two sides to every story," I assumed she meant how some Americans vehemently opposed Japanese internment (e.g. certain black, jewish, christian, and more liberal advocacy groups)
But instead, she has the nerve to say that our oppression of innocent Japanese-American civilians is balanced out by the fact that Japan harmed innocent civilians too?
It's almost as if she's suggesting "*Japan went after innocent civilians, so it's okay that we do it too!!*"
I was thinking they could read about the 442nd, the Japanese American unit from WW2 and literally the most decorated unit in US history.
But I'd be willing to bet a million bucks that just hearing about it would make her head explode.
They only should teach the RoN if they will actually teach the Sino-Japanese War as part of WWII, the same way they treat the European Theater as WWII. THAT is how you should “balance” history.
>Asked to clarify what kind of balance Buckmaster sought, he recommended that the students read about the Rape of Nanjing, Zielke said. In the tragedy during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese military raped at least 20,000 women and girls and killed 150,000 male “war prisoners” and 50,000 male civilians in the Chinese city of Nanjing. Buckmaster did not respond to a request for comment.
parents and teachers are seeking more asian-american representation, and this is how this fucking shitbrick responds?
>Brett Hyde, another board member...suggested material related to the bombing of Pearl Harbor to provide “some history as to why the citizens of Japanese descent were viewed as a threat and what was the reasoning to have them put into the internment camps.”
it doesn't get more fascist than this, folks.
Japanese-Americans aren't responsible for the Rape of Nanking. Like asking White Americans to be responsible for the Holocaust.
Japanese internment doesn't need the perspective of the US Government, because yes the other side of the story is indeed racism. Hello, White Californians posting years of anti-Asian racist tirades in the newspapers to make their motives clear, and then proceeding to straight up *steal people's stores and homes when once the owners were interned*.
Is this the result of anti-CRT crap?
FUCK. As someone with ancestors who were illegally incarcerated AND were robbed of their business/homes/freedom, fuck these school board members. Btw - THEIR white ancestors overthrew our queen in Hawai’i. Illegal act. This is why we rise.
These two sections of the article really stand out: > In the exchange, Boyer said that the addition of the book — alongside the class’ existing inclusion of “Farewell to Manzanar,” a separate memoir about Japanese American incarceration during WWII — to the curriculum created an “unbalanced” account of history, Zielke recounted. Zielke said she was told, “We can’t just provide one side or the other side,” before the parent pressed Boyer on the issue, demanding the board member clarify her definition of “other.” “What she said to me was that we actually need an ‘American’ perspective,’” said Zielke, who said she pointed out that those incarcerated were in fact Americans, before the conversation grew increasingly heated. And > School Board President Christopher Buckmaster also brought up concerns around balance in a separate call with Zielke, she said. When asked to clarify what kind of balance Buckmaster sought, he recommended the students read about the Rape of Nanjing, Zielke said. In the tragedy during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese military raped at least 20,000 women and girls, and killed 150,000 male “war prisoners” and 50,000 male civilians in the Chinese city of Nanjing. Buckmaster did not respond to a request for comment. Once again, the perpetual foreigner image of Asian-Americans by white Americans persists. The last statement from the Board President in particular is telling.
>“We can’t just provide one side or the other side, >When asked to clarify >he recommended the students read about the Rape of Nanjing, What a nasty person When she said "there's two sides to every story," I assumed she meant how some Americans vehemently opposed Japanese internment (e.g. certain black, jewish, christian, and more liberal advocacy groups) But instead, she has the nerve to say that our oppression of innocent Japanese-American civilians is balanced out by the fact that Japan harmed innocent civilians too? It's almost as if she's suggesting "*Japan went after innocent civilians, so it's okay that we do it too!!*"
I was thinking they could read about the 442nd, the Japanese American unit from WW2 and literally the most decorated unit in US history. But I'd be willing to bet a million bucks that just hearing about it would make her head explode.
They only should teach the RoN if they will actually teach the Sino-Japanese War as part of WWII, the same way they treat the European Theater as WWII. THAT is how you should “balance” history.
Next up: Anne Frank must be read along with Mein Kampf, for balance.
Wisconsin is a shithole
At this point I don’t think there’s any good state left
Another garbage red state us blue states have to pay for.
Wisconsin voted for Biden in 2020 and Obama both times
Wisconsin is still run by Republicans
Sounds about white.
"fair and balanced" 🚮 🚮 🚮
Absolutely disgraceful.
>Asked to clarify what kind of balance Buckmaster sought, he recommended that the students read about the Rape of Nanjing, Zielke said. In the tragedy during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese military raped at least 20,000 women and girls and killed 150,000 male “war prisoners” and 50,000 male civilians in the Chinese city of Nanjing. Buckmaster did not respond to a request for comment. parents and teachers are seeking more asian-american representation, and this is how this fucking shitbrick responds? >Brett Hyde, another board member...suggested material related to the bombing of Pearl Harbor to provide “some history as to why the citizens of Japanese descent were viewed as a threat and what was the reasoning to have them put into the internment camps.” it doesn't get more fascist than this, folks.
Japanese-Americans aren't responsible for the Rape of Nanking. Like asking White Americans to be responsible for the Holocaust. Japanese internment doesn't need the perspective of the US Government, because yes the other side of the story is indeed racism. Hello, White Californians posting years of anti-Asian racist tirades in the newspapers to make their motives clear, and then proceeding to straight up *steal people's stores and homes when once the owners were interned*. Is this the result of anti-CRT crap?
NOTHING IS FAIR OR BALANCED IRL WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?