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No one has called for Muslims to be shipped to concentration camps. Frankly, the most intolerant voices I've been hearing this election cycle come from the lef
by leurfete 10y ago
No one has called for Muslims to be shipped to concentration camps.
Frankly, the most intolerant voices I've been hearing this election cycle come from the left -- calling for conservatives to be purged and blacklisted at every turn.
Progressives seem to have whipped themselves up into a moral panic.
Sad times.
- jhayward 10y agoTrump has praised Roosevelt's internment of the Japanese, as well as restrictions on movement, property ownership, and possesion of radios as an appropriate model for how to deal with Muslims.
- leurfete 10y agoYou're spinning what he said. I'm not voting this election, but I'm 100% against outrage culture. 'When asked whether he would have supported Japanese internment camps, Trump told Time that he could not say for certain. "I would have had to be there at the time to tell you, to give you a proper answer," he told the magazine. "I certainly hate the concept of it. But I would have had to be there at the time to give you a proper answer."'[1] 1). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/08/trump-on-internment-camps-i-certainly-hate-the-concept/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12...
- mikesickler 10y agoHe's praised Eisenhower's Operation Wetback. Many, many times.