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> If they were humanly treated in the camps there wouldn't be so much of an issue. Wrong. We've made a pretty big deal over Manzanar and other Japanese-America

• that_guy_iain 3y ago
  Comparing Japanese-American internment camps to Auschwitz is a disgraceful thing to do. In no way shape or form were they as big of a problem as Auschwitz. The German POW camps were brutal and left POWs looking like walking skeletons, but we barely mention them. Holding people in camps wasn't the problem, killing them en masse was. many of the victims of the holocaust didn't even make it to camps. The majority of the victims of the holocaust were "soviet" civilians who weren't Jewish. It wasn't the camps, it was the killing people.
  • arrosenberg 3y ago
    > Comparing Japanese-American internment camps to Auschwitz is a disgraceful thing to do. In no way shape or form were they as big of a problem as Auschwitz. That's consistent with what I said. You said "if they were humanly treated in the camps there wouldn't be so much of an issue", to which I provided a counter-example where people were treated more humanely (which you seem to agree with). Nonetheless, I remember learning about Manzanar as a kid multiple times - we do make a big deal out it, and it is properly contextualized as "very bad, but less bad than Auschwitz", at least where I grew up. Sounds like you just want to be up on a soapbox.