The responded this
You mean when Japan bombed us
Pic Context
Mrs. B. G. Miller, a member of the Hollywood Protective Association, points to an anti-Japanese sign reading ‘removed Keep Moving - This is a White Man’s Neighborhood’, on her house on Tamarind Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, May 1923. Other houses in the street have similar signs and are a response to Japanese Americans buying a property on the street in order to build a Japanese Presbyterian Church.
My grandma held onto a hatred of the Japanese for most of her life. Both of my grandpas were in WW2 and she never forgot it.
I remember as a kid her saying terrible things about “those removed”, and we lived out in the sticks in a fly-over state where there likely wasn’t a Japanese person for 300 miles in any direction.
I always thought it was weird when I was little that she used to say those things but only when I was older did I ever ask why grandma was such a racist.
In her view, the whole reason her husband had to go to war and became a hardcore alcoholic was because of them and that never changed.
I have family living there and my grandma was born during the war, so no hate from her but she never ever figured out how to pronounce Japan. She emphasizes the first syllable so it sounds like the slur and then -pan. If she says Japanese she pronounces the firsr syllable normal. Its weird
In middle school I knew a kid who said he still hated the Japanese for WW2. He also claimed to have hammered splinters under his own fingernails to ‘see what it was like’ but I doubt that.