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@bookstodon Another really good graphic nonfiction book I've read recently, and recommend, is WE HEREBY REFUSE, regarding the Japanese-Americans forced into concentration camps in WWII.

The story addresses a common victim-blaming response to the plight of others: "Why didn't they fight back?" It's almost always the wrong question, even though indeed, they did fight back. Victim-blaming is a pernicious permission structure, allowing us not to care about terrible events that happen to other people.

This is a story rarely heard. It needs to be heard, especially as some leaders are openly advocating for detention camps for those who look like they "might be here illegally."

Cover art has replaced the notice of removal to Japanese Americans to the title of the book: We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration. The notice has been nailed to a telephone pole in a largely Asian neighborhood. Storefronts are shown to the right of the telephone pole, featuring the family business of the main characters, a shoe repair shop. (As an aside, mad respect for a generation who repaired things instead of tossing them out and replacing them.)
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