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To: caww

We are talking about American citizens here. Internment was wrong.


13 posted on 02/16/2020 11:54:09 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: Simon Foxx

In WWII, an orgy of cruelty and destruction and mass murder, every nation did horrible things. The differences between them were matters of degree, and in some sense the matter of who began perpetrating some barbarism first.

On the scale of that feast of blood, and even on the scale of what else it had done to other innocent people, the US interning the Japanese and taking their property was trivial. On any fair metric of horrible things this should be a footnote.

To people like me, who grew up playing in the ruins, this whole obsession seems absurd.


18 posted on 02/17/2020 12:27:12 AM PST by buwaya
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To: Simon Foxx

Oh, you mean like American citizens who left to fight for ISIS? Taliban? Citizenship is not the bleach that washes clean personal anti-American sentiments.


28 posted on 02/17/2020 5:21:28 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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