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It is outrageous because in both instances we're talking about actual legal citizens being persecuted by their own government for belonging to an ethnic group,
by mattsfrey 7y ago
It is outrageous because in both instances we're talking about actual legal citizens being persecuted by their own government for belonging to an ethnic group, not a group of foreign nationals that illegally entered the country and are being held temporarily for criminal prosecution.
- shadowgovt 7y agoThat's irrelevant. The root cause of running a concentration camp is unimportant; they're human beings and deserve to be treated with dignity. As it stands, the US is failing to hold them to the standards we hold even incarcerated prisoners, and they haven't been convicted of any crime. That's outrageous. Treating some humans under one's jurisdiction as more "human" because they are citizens is a severe anti-pattern.
- mattsfrey 7y agoIf the conditions of imprisonment are all that matter then the Japanese internment wasn't that big of a deal, they were treated quite well and humanely and in relatively good living conditions. But of course that's not the point. The point is a group of people were persecuted arbitrarily by their government for belonging to an ethnic group, something held today as universally reprehensible. You are using loaded language to capitalize on this connection and that is what's outrageous. That is _the_ reason you are using this term "concentration camp", and it just makes you look ridiculous to anyone that is still applying logic to the situation and not just engaging in hyperbole to make an emotional appeal.
- shadowgovt 7y ago"The Japanese internment wasn't that big of a deal" is certainly a claim a person can make, but I don't feel compelled to continue discoursing with someone who does.
- mattsfrey 7y agoAn outrageous misquote ignoring all surrounding context.. you're good at this outrageous thing