re: I took my kids this afternoon to learn about Japanese Interment camps in Idaho

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But also people are acting like the conditions were Auschwitz-esque

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This, and these same people are doing the same thing with ICE Detention Centers.

Sounds like a festive day with the kids.

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It amazing how their mindset has dramatically changed since their population learned how their military leaders acted.

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You're Welcome

add to the fact that they had two of the most destructive weapons ever used in warfare used on two of their cities likely force a realization.

When I was in my early twenties I spent many a night drinking on the patio at my grandparents house chatting with gramps buddies that were all WWII vets... One was a bomber pilot that spent 3 years as a guest of the reich. His story of how when their air crew was surrounded by german soldiers one guy tried to fight them and he was quickly dispatched by mulitple soldiers. Despite the cold and shitty food and conditions he said many times they were treated better than most prisoners.


Then one night the guy that was a POW of the japanese, his story was beyond horrific showed me his scars told me of men being castrated and even worse. It made me ashamed that I owned a toyota.


But throughout history this pattern repeats when one side dehumanizes the other and what gives me great concern over the increasingly vile rhetoric from the left.

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What we did to those Japanese-American families was terrible.

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There were American citizens who immigrated years earlier from Germany who spied for the Nazis. We caught some of them and executed them. Are you saying that there were no Japanese immigrants who would spy for their home country? Hell, Tokyo Rose came back to the U.S. after the war and she was acquitted and released to live here. That's how nice we were to the Japanese.

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I took my kids this afternoon to learn about Japanese Interment camps in Idaho

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I think that’s a cool thing to do

I’m sure that was a good counterpoise to when you showed them about the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Bataan Death March.

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They were put into concentration camps based solely on their ethnicity. In no way shape or form is that ok. They were American Citizens and were jailed, without cause or trial, for years.

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Wrong. They were put on grounds with housing like a camp ground. Not like a prison. The purpose was to control their contact with Japan. The fact that we did not do this with German Americans resulted in US deaths from the German American spies we did not catch, put on trial and execute. We avoided those deaths caused by American Japanese spies by merely confining the Japanese to camps that were better than the nice ones that German POWs were confined to. Those German POWs all report how well they were treated.

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Not like a prison.

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It sure looks like a prison to me. And you're trying to compare the facilities of German POWs (The Enemy) to Japanese-Americans (American Citizens) in camps. If those two were comparable than that's an even bigger strike against interning them. I have no problem putting Japanese citizens in a camp during the war. But incarcerating American Citizens without due process is an argument that can't be justified.