GoodPointSir

I'm saying the Russian invasion doesn't justify deporting Russians living in Lithuania for no other reason, just like how the war with Japan didn't justify putting Japanese people in concentration camps.

The Russian government are using Russians living in neighboring countries as an excuse to invade them, but it's not like they wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if there weren't any Russians there. It's obviously a pretense, and has nothing to do with the ACTUAL Russians living in Lithuania.

That small difference is one is being said by the government to justify its actions, and the other is said by someone generations after the act was done, to specifically highlight the racism.

The actual statements produced by the American government would have sounded a lot like your first quote, and the Lithuanian forced deportation could also be summarized as "once a Russian, always a Russian"

1. Yes, the US paid reparations to the Japanese for their racist policy against them. I'm pointing out what they did was racist and shitty, just like what Lithuania is doing is racist and shitty.

2. I'm not arguing for Russia's invasion, I'm arguing against forced deportation of Russian people from Lithuania.

3. Whataboutism is using one evil to justify another evil. I'm using one evil to HIGHLIGHT another evil. In fact, bringing up the war in Ukraine to justify deporting Russians in Lithuania is Whataboutism.

except I'm explicitly saying that we recognize Japanese internment as racist and bad, and should also recognize mass Russian deportation as racist and bad.

Read my comment, then read your comment again. It doesn't even make sense. I'm not saying the US invaded people so Russia should too, I'm saying it was wrong to discriminate against the Japanese for being Japanese, and it is still wrong to discriminate against the Russians for being Russian.

So basically the same reasoning the US had for throwing all their Japanese people into concentration camps during the second world war. Guess it's ok to be racist now as long as it's towards people of Russian descent.