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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…
Sardonicism. It doesn't come up much.
"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".
With 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/…
I did not know the ACLU fought against the Japanese internment camps. Donation forthcoming.
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A lot of the talk has come from the man himself (this is from 2015, but still) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12... Stephanopoulos responded: "You want to bring back policies like that?" After a pause, Trump responded: "No, I don't to bring it back, George. At all. I don't like doing it at all. It's a temporary measure until our representatives, many of whom are grossly incompetent, until o…
“It” in this case seems to refer to the “ban on Muslims entering United States”, not any internment?
"They went through a whole list of things -- they couldn't go five miles from their homes, they weren't allowed to use radios, flashlights," Trump said.
Maybe he means "Hey, if that's legal than my policy is less bad and therefore legal too" which is only marginally reassuring. Citing internment as a necessary tactic in wartime as a moral justification for your policy is plenty worrying on its own. "Look how generous I am- I'm not actually interning people, just X. I don't like it, but it's a time of war, so it's necessary."
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A lot of the talk has come from the man himself (this is from 2015, but still) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12... Stephanopoulos responded: "You want to bring back policies like that?" After a pause, Trump responded: "No, I don't to bring it back, George. At all. I don't like doing it at all. It's a temporary measure until our representatives, many of whom are grossly incompetent, until o…
“It” in this case seems to refer to the “ban on Muslims entering United States”, not any internment?
Just to be clear, there's zero talk of any Muslim internment other than in the fevered world of the anti-Trumpers, who are using it as a straw-bogeyman to stir people up.
Just to be clear, there's zero talk of any Muslim internment other than in the fevered world of the anti-Trumpers, who are using it as a straw-bogeyman to stir people up.
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A lot of the talk has come from the man himself (this is from 2015, but still) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12... Stephanopoulos responded: "You want to bring back policies like that?" After a pause, Trump responded: "No, I don't to bring it back, George. At all. I don't like doing it at all. It's a temporary measure until our representatives, many of whom are grossly incompetent, until o…
“It” in this case seems to refer to the “ban on Muslims entering United States”, not any internment?
A ban is just a first step, as it validates the perception of danger it will not do much to reduce mistrust of muslims already here and all it would take would be a single attack possibly to shift public perception away from a ban and to more drastic measures. That is why we should not relax and assume the best when there are so many parallels to past atrocities.
Most of them were Japanese Americans, born in America. One wonders why German Americans weren't given similar treatment.
They were? I guess? Appears to have been different, but still done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans