It seemed like all of us who were Japanese-Americans were targets by the right wingers on twitter. I nearly deleted my account, as I was accosted on line for just being who I am, but some friends stuck by me.. and I stayed..and many of those accounts that attacked me had been terminated by those who run twitter. I am grateful for that... as I said, I was not even born during that time period.
I used to go to a chat room on a website called Meebo. Interestingly enough, the chat room I went to was a Canadian one, but it had been taken over by Students from mainland China. On finding out that I was Japanese-American they threw their hatred towards me as well, one asking me what was it like to have the blood of Nanking on my hands.
I told them the same thing. First of all, I am an American first...secondly I was not born then, nor were my relatives living in Japan at the time. My mother has often hinted that we have a bit of Hawaiian blood so I may even be mixed.. Japanese and Hawaiian. They were in Hawaii when the Japanese attacked..
But of course the Chinese students would not listen. They have been taught to keep the hatred alive, long, long after the Japanese left China... and they continue to learn about this in their schools in away, where most of them can not even stand the sight of seeing someone from Japanese Heritage. I was forced to leave the chat room, despite the fact, the Canadian friends there encouraged me to stay, because they insisted they still had control of the chat room.. but they really couldn't stop the Chinese visitors from coming.
Eventually Meebo was shut down..and I had found other places to go.. but I had up and until that point in my life, never come up against that much hatred in my life. Growing up in San Francisco I had many Asian friends, including Chinese. None of them ever expressed that kind of hatred to me, ever.
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