The clear military consequences of racial prejudice: Korean War edition
I recently read the memoirs of Maj. Gen. William Dean, the highest-ranking American officer captured during the Korean War. One thing that surprised him during his three years of captivity was the number of Koreans who told him they had sided with the Communists because of American racial prejudice. If it were up to him, ...
I recently read the memoirs of Maj. Gen. William Dean, the highest-ranking American officer captured during the Korean War. One thing that surprised him during his three years of captivity was the number of Koreans who told him they had sided with the Communists because of American racial prejudice. If it were up to him, he wrote, “use of the term ‘gook,’ or its many equivalents, by Americans would be an offense for military punishment.”
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