re: On this date in 1942, FDR sentenced thousands of Japanese-Americans to concentration camps

Jesus christ slack and lnch


slack is right, they were 100% concentration camps

lnch is right that colloquially, people do not call them concentration camps due to the gravitas of the word changing due to the nazis. They are known as internment camps in almost all conversation and literature now.


Yall are both right, so can you two phags stop?

Concentration camps?

Really?

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No one said they weren't.

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There were absolutely people who balked at the word concentration camps and did not know what the word actually meant


Just stop lnch

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No one said they weren't.

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the first post implies they were not, or at least, "different"

also 2 posts since your previous post also seem to want to argue otherwise

To say that we had any substantial reason to do what we did to the Japanese is beyond stupid. Whoever said they were different and more dangerous than German immigrants is ignorant too. There were examples of German spies and huge German American businesses that fought to keep us out of the war or join the German side. The only reason German and Italians were treated different was because of how they looked plain and simple. Yes German concentration camps were exponentially worse but ours were concentration camps too and it is shameful that we put ourselves in the same category. We don’t have to reason it away, it was a terrible thing done by our country during an emotional time. That doesn’t cancel out the great things our country accomplished during this time. I don’t get posters who are probably conservatives most of the time white knighting for FDR. He was the single most anti-conservative president ever. He makes Obama look like Ronald Reagan. The whole I get why we did it, it was tough but we did what we had to do crap just shows how in not conservative many on here are. You are fine with big tyrannical government as long as it agrees with you. For the record I’m a freedom loving conservative

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ETA: And like clockwork some jackass does exactly what I was saying wasn't happening right after I say it

Check the IP, has to be a slack alter.

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You need to go to a camp, you're losing it.

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Anyone with half a brain figured that part out

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well yeah

I get what he was trying to say

but his post still implied that they were not "concentration camps"

but this is such a dumb argument and I don't feel like falling into this trap, so carry on

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frick. That.

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You're right in an argument no one is having with you. Congrats on all your success.

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So, like, even a small chance of betrayal or espionage had to be treated very seriously, especially given how fanatical Imperial Japanese people seemed to be.

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The Germans in Germany seemed pretty fanatical after Hitler came to power. And yet, I don't see people using this reasoning when talking about German immigrants in the US in the 30s and 40s.

Japanese immigrants in the US at the time were no different than any other group of immigrants. They just wanted a better life.

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A concentration camp is a place where a group of people are imprisoned for various reasons, like their ethnicity or political beliefs.

What OP describes fits in the definition of a concentration camp.

ETA: Unsure why I'm being downvoted. Open up a dictionary.

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Quit stealing Jewish peoples valor you anti semite