[odawg]

“I learned about those camps in school don’t see why we would need to spend any more time or money on it.”

Bills of that type require a positive application — a requirement that the topic be singled out and promoted. The object is to tarnish America and American history in the eyes of the young, to teach them to be embarrassed to be American, and to reject their heritage.

[nathanbedford]

There is a difference between indoctrination and education. It is the function of the government, both federal and local, to educate. But the reverse of education is indoctrination and in that government has no legitimate role.

In this the government setting out not to deliver history lessons but to indoctrinate our citizens, especially our youth that America is unworthy of respect because it interned Japanese during the depths of World War II after the Japanese nation attacked Pearl Harbor and committed atrocities wherever its army set foot.

I would bet that there is absolutely no intention of describing the rape of Nanking by Japanese nor to educate our youth about the immense slaughter of innocent Chinese by the Japanese in World War II. My bet is that there will be little said about the Bataan and death March. I suspect the underlying message will be to equate the Japanese internment camps (which also included Italians and Germans) with Nazi concentration camps. Will reference will be made to the concentration camps in China of the Uighurs? Will the indoctrination note that the word "concentration" camps was first used to describe the British internment of Boers?

Suppose the federal government decided to spend huge sums of money to educate American citizens about the crimes committed above their statistical share of the population of America by African-American citizens? The outcry would be thunderous-and rightly so.

Indoctrination is not sanctified because it is the flavor of the age.