Yet the lefties invariably use a wide brush when critiquing right wing nuts, but on those occasions when they notice the incongruities of the left, there's not much condemning of the whackjob lefties in general. [It's so cute when there's another thread about how stupid and backwards are the people from Florida.]
I have to admit there was a whole lot of leftforge supporting the radical communist hate group Antifa and only a few of us calling them what they are. That was disappointing to me but not very surprising.
I remember an English class I had a dozen years back. The instructor was always asking the class about various social, cultural, and historical issues. Once he asked the class if anyone could name a concentration camp. Me and this girl in the class were the only ones who could, and we rattled off quite a few: "Auschwitz," "Dachau," "Treblinka," "Sachsenhausen." When I had run out of the Germanic variety, I laughed and said "Manzanar." The instructor got a big grin and asked the rest of the class if they knew that one. When no one did, he informed them it was a couple of hundred miles away...right there in California.
Lousy history teachers, and kids who don't bother reading on their own. I read this https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24332222-i-will-survive when it was first released. I was 14. Farewell to Manzanar was not published until '73 - nearly 30 years after the internment camps were plowed under. Typical "Who, us? We're MURICANS! We'd never do anything like that!"
e Equating a relocation camp for Japanese Americans with a Nazi death camp is extreme don't you think? How many Japanese Americans who were incarcerated actually died as a result of that incarceration?
Why don't you Google it? You don't even need to include the financial (loss of property) or psychosocial impacts.
In my 7th grade social studies class we had to watch Farewell to Manzanar when we covered our modern US History portion. I can remember stopping by there back in the mid 90's on my way to climb Mount Whitney but there just wasn't a whole lot left.
Both are concentration camps. Both intern people without legitimate cause or due process. So as long as no one is exterminated or neglected unto death, it's all hunky dory?
Of course not. But its still an order of magnitude different. Remember that lots of incarcerated Japanese Americans lived to receive some compensation by the U.S. federal government.
It would seem to be very few as the mortality rate of interned Japanese Americans was not much different from noninterned Americans https://history.stackexchange.com/q...to-us-internment-of-japanese-americans-during
So if a law was passed to intern all rednecks and confiscate their property, you'd be cool with that?
There was a riot where a few people were shot but by and large nothing else out of the ordinary. It certainly wasn't a death camp though people couldn't just leave either.
My math skills are quite advanced. Being called mathematically-challenged by someone like you... it's cute.
I feel like your source of anger and bitterness stems from jealousy. Do you feel like you are too old to compete with people who are far younger and much more intelligent than yourself?
Wait, Manzanar was *here*? I read the book as a kid and I even got extra credit for bringing in that one episode of Enterprise with the interned Suliban, but I had no idea. I bet I'm not the only one. That's the difference between Germany and us: they took responsibility for the shit Hitler did and they put a swift end to anyone worshipping him as a hero. There are memorials to the victims across the country, including the one right across the parking lot where Das Fürherbunker was. Us? Well... https://jezebel.com/ohio-town-takes-down-then-reinstates-confederate-monum-1818993865 Ohio wasn't even a border state, IIRC, but southern heritage and all that.
Now you're equating slavery in a part of the United States to the Germans deliberately murdering 12 million people?
