>So if school kids are being taught "the WW2 era American internment camps should be called American concentration camps," they're actually being mislead. Inte

>So if school kids are being taught "the WW2 era American internment camps should be called American concentration camps," they're actually being mislead. Internment is for foreign nationals. The implication is there is a loyalty conflict (foreign citizenship) that requires them to be controlled. Concentration camps is the correct term. If people are trying to gatekeep the term "concentration camp," a term that existed before WW2, they should stop. >The lesson can't be oblivious to popular understandings or less precise popular usage. No sane person equates the Japanese-American experience with the Holocaust so I'm not sure exactly who you think is actually trying to "lie and mislead." For decades, the vast majority of the community (led by the JACL) preferred to say nothing about it in the interest of integration. The renaming is about stopping the use of anodyne terms ("relocation center" and "internment camp") that literally did, and do, nothing but make a few people feel better about the armed imprisonment of US citizens. Roosevelt, Truman, and several of their secretaries called them "concentration camps."