they have a proud nazi heritage.
milos horthy runs deep... so deep...

And martial law in their country (Jeju island in 1948) brought genocide. So they weren't going to risk that again. US hasn't the same history although obvs wish to see Orange in jail

Yeah, I’ll say that Japanese Americans, just to name one group, definitely still have living memory of the US devolving into utter horror. Even those of us who weren’t alive during incarceration, almost all of us have relatives or friends whose grandparents were incarcerated.

Exactly. For too many Americans, the world begins and ends in their yard, apartment or basement. When you're not living in the shadow of a recent dictatorship or under the daily threat of military action at home or from the government next door, everything becomes "over there" and acceptable.

It's because a lot of those non-white Americans do like the dictatorships and defend them. Every Korean-American has run into an old fart that still thinks Park Chung Hee was the best president

Yes, that’s a really good point

40. the last military dictatorship ended in 1987.

It's so seared into their memory that at a time right when the Korean uncs and aunties were deep in the business of getting blasted drunk, they dropped everything when they heard the news, took the train to the capital and stormed the barricades instead of getting Seoul meltdowned.

I think about this a lot... so many Americans do not seem to understand how easily tyranny can take hold. The fact that my mother is an immigrant who grew up under an autocratic regime gives me a very different sense of urgency about authoritarianism I think