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Because the TikTok national security concerns are plausible and the internment camp security concerns weren’t at all. One is plausible, if debatable. The other

• joshstrange 6y ago
  So your issue is with comparing the two of them? You believe that they are apples and oranges, one clearly bad and the other up for debate? I will not pretend that we will look back on the TikTok debate and be appalled by it in the same degree but let's not forget that we considered internment camps to be "debatable" and Americans overwhelmingly supported them [0]. What we call "plausible, if debatable" now is not what future-us will necessarily call it. I think the original commenter was simply pointing out the extremes of the "power" behind using "national security" as justification. [0] https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/main/us-public-opinion-on-japanese-internment-1942 https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/ma...