Re: Travel Ban From Above...NPR, Fred Korematsu, And Just...Damn

Thursday, June 28, 2018

We all know it's bullshit. And while I have a rant deep inside...I've been busy trying to get the lint out between my toes (cause I'm a bad Asian MF's) so here's at least one link to a story on NPR...

And yes...WTF indeed.

In Travel Ban Ruling, High Court Repudiates Notorious Japanese Internment Case

In the sharply divided decision over President Trump's travel ban, the Supreme Court repudiated a notorious case from the last century: one that justified the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor pointed to what she called "stark parallels" between the 1944 Korematsu decision and Tuesday's ruling, which upheld Trump administration restrictions on would-be visitors from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Somalia and Yemen.

In both cases, "the Government invoked an ill-defined national-security threat to justify an exclusionary policy of sweeping proportion," Sotomayor wrote in a dissent joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "As here, the exclusion order was rooted in dangerous stereotypes about ... a particular group's supposed inability to assimilate and desire to harm the United States."

Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote for the majority in the travel ban case, dismissed the comparison. While the forcible relocation of Japanese-American citizens to concentration camps was "objectively unlawful" and "morally repugnant," Roberts argued, "it is wholly inapt to liken that" to the travel ban, which he described as a "facially neutral policy denying certain foreign nationals the privilege of admission."

Even as he rejected the parallels to the travel ban, though, Roberts took the opportunity to expressly disavow the high court's 74-year-old decision.

"Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and — to be clear — 'has no place in law under the Constitution,' " Roberts wrote, quoting from Justice Robert Jackson's 1944 dissent.

People Suck AKA Kelly Marie Tran Deletes Instagram Account Because Of Racist Assholes

Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Well...I guess this isn't surprising...but yet it is because you would think in some ways that we could get past this in the name of sci-fi...but then again it's not like sci-fi doesn't have it's own issues.

"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" actress Kelly Marie Tran has deleted all her Instagram posts.
Tran has faced racist and sexist attacks online since her casting [...] Tran faced racism and sexism online surrounding her casting in "The Last Jedi." For instance, in December, someone edited the Rose Tico Wookieepedia page so that her name was "Ching Chong Wing Tong" and her home was "Ching Chong China."

Here's to hoping we see KMT kicking ass for a long long time and one day opening her account back up.