I did not know the ACLU fought against the Japanese internment camps. Donation forthcoming.
Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps
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#12This was appalling and obviously sucked a lot for people who underwent such treatment; however as someone born in USSR I'd say that it was surprisingly humane (hot water not always available) compared to how people were treated in the USSR around the same period.
Case in point: Ukrainian Holodomor (genocide by famine) http://www.rferl.org/a/holodomor-ukraine/25174454.html
Edit: also, Chechen and Krimean Tatar deportations, and many many others
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#13expected the 'notice' signs to be in japanese... ? YES - I know that most of the folks were american-born-english speaking. But the paranoia against them was that they were all working for the Japanese govt and all secret agents and whatnot. Would have made more sense to try to present info in their "own language". Stating that you couldn't read the Japanese writing would be PROOF that you are, in fact, a Japanese sp…
Those second and third generation Japanese Americans wouldn't be able to read it.
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#14expected the 'notice' signs to be in japanese... ? YES - I know that most of the folks were american-born-english speaking. But the paranoia against them was that they were all working for the Japanese govt and all secret agents and whatnot. Would have made more sense to try to present info in their "own language". Stating that you couldn't read the Japanese writing would be PROOF that you are, in fact, a Japanese sp…
The occupants of Japanese internment camps in the U.S. were Japanese American.
Which makes it all the more ridiculous of a paranoid, senseless, knee-jerk internment.
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#15expected the 'notice' signs to be in japanese... ? YES - I know that most of the folks were american-born-english speaking. But the paranoia against them was that they were all working for the Japanese govt and all secret agents and whatnot. Would have made more sense to try to present info in their "own language". Stating that you couldn't read the Japanese writing would be PROOF that you are, in fact, a Japanese sp…
Out of the 110,000 incarcerated, 62% of were American-born citizens. Since they were all living in America, and this all happened in America, English certainly makes since.
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#16"The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken." THAT is disturbing "logic".
I wouldn't call this "logic" at all :)
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#17This was appalling and obviously sucked a lot for people who underwent such treatment; however as someone born in USSR I'd say that it was surprisingly humane (hot water not always available) compared to how people were treated in the USSR around the same period. Case in point: Ukrainian Holodomor (genocide by famine) http://www.rferl.org/a/holodomor-ukraine/25174454.html Edit: also, Chechen and Krimean Tatar deporta…
You could just compare it to the Nazi internment camps for Jews, if finding "worse" conditions is the goal. (I'm being sardonic.)
(OT question: sarcastic is to sarcasm as sardonic is to ____?)
These were second and third generation "immigrants" living their normal, everyday American lives, torn away from their homes, communities, jobs, schools, churches, friends, and families. The crime isn't in the living conditions at the internment camps, the real horror is that people could be sent to them just for having a great-grandparent that came from Japan to the United States. The real crime is that hardly seventy years later, this internment is largely forgotten, the details are glossed over, and the American public (of which I am, by and large, proud to be a member of) have deluded themselves into thinking it's just another another unfortunate chapter in human history "that wouldn't happen again today" or that "desperate times called for desperate measures" and leave it at that.
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#18With today's political climate I can't help but think that something like this could happen again.
It kind of already is happening in the US right now in the form of "Family detention centers" intended to detain non-citizens slated for deportation.
If Trump's administration seriously plans on "rounding up" millions of people for deportation, they'll have to be lodged somewhere while they are tried (assuming they're granted trials, who knows anymore) and travel arrangements are made.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/magazine/the-shame-of-amer...
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#20Most of them were Japanese Americans, born in America. One wonders why German Americans weren't given similar treatment.