Today in Supreme Court History: May 11, 1942

5/11/1942: Gordon Hirabayashi "failed to report to the Civil Control Station within the designated area." The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of his conviction in Hirabayashi v. U.S. (1943).

Gordon Hirabayashi

Comments

[MiloMinderbinder]

The authorities should have just invoked some communicable disease/pandemic excuse.

[Dr. Ed]

Don't give them ideas....

[Jimmy the Dane]

I read an article making the case that ending the lockdowns was white racism since "black" and "brown" people are dying in larger numbers. So whitey wants to end the lockdown to make sure they die. Another example of "if your only tool is a hammer..."

[Dan Schiavetta]

Imagine what would have happened to those heavily armed protesters storming the capitol in Lansing if they had been black.

[Jimmy the Dane]

The media would have either no reported it or would have spun it as "peaceful activists engaged in community organizing..."

Want to see how the liberal media spun the almost equivalent. Look at the leftist takeovers of the Wisconsin capital during education reforms pushed by Scott Walker. The activists there were violent, shouted down politicians, made death threats, but all of that was fine because they were liberals raging against a republican.

Your old and tired trope trying to make the Michigan protests into something there aren't is really, well, old and tired...

[Jimmy the Dane]

It is wikipedia but this should give you an idea of how the media treated a leftist takeover of a state capitol building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests

[Dan Schiavetta]

Not what I meant. Though not surprising that it wouldn’t occur to someone in Whiteworld.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1942988

[Jimmy the Dane]

Typical lib to think that "protesting" means you can't call out the people who are protesting for doing so in an offensive or stupid manner. Or that is what they think the standard should be when "activists" "protest" something on their agenda.