Oh, sweet irony
Aug. 25th, 2004 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumDave Neiwert (Orcinus) points out that Michelle Malkin is recommending the US Government lock her up.
Malkin, somewhat correctly, is annoyed that some commentators have referred to her as "self-hating":
"The idea that since I am an Asian-American who has defended the so-called Japanese-American internment, I must therefore hate myself, is absurd. What in the world does my ethnic heritage (Filipino) have to do with the book's thesis?"
Of course, she's quite right that the presumption that because she's Asian American she "ought to be" opposed to the Japanese American internment is nonsense. However, the fact that she is of Filipino descent in fact has a great deal to do with her book's thesis.
Malkin, you see, makes great hay of the fact of "dual citizenship" among the Nisei as a clear indicator of "torn loyalties" and a cause to suspect them of potential sabotage or espionage.
But Malkin, as it happens, is a dual citizen herself.
Needless to say she thinks she ought to be exempt from any such roundup because we all know she is loyal. It's all those other people we need to worry about.
Feh.
Malkin, somewhat correctly, is annoyed that some commentators have referred to her as "self-hating":
"The idea that since I am an Asian-American who has defended the so-called Japanese-American internment, I must therefore hate myself, is absurd. What in the world does my ethnic heritage (Filipino) have to do with the book's thesis?"
Of course, she's quite right that the presumption that because she's Asian American she "ought to be" opposed to the Japanese American internment is nonsense. However, the fact that she is of Filipino descent in fact has a great deal to do with her book's thesis.
Malkin, you see, makes great hay of the fact of "dual citizenship" among the Nisei as a clear indicator of "torn loyalties" and a cause to suspect them of potential sabotage or espionage.
But Malkin, as it happens, is a dual citizen herself.
Needless to say she thinks she ought to be exempt from any such roundup because we all know she is loyal. It's all those other people we need to worry about.
Feh.
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Date: 2004-08-25 10:40 pm (UTC)