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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I think the US media has washed their image so clean with the WW2 movies that most people have no idea about stuff like the nazi rally happened in the US and the support for eugenics in the Us, and the concentration camps in the Us.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

lord… i live near two of the american concentration camps called out by name in the planning docs for auschwitz…

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

american concentration camps called out by name in the planning docs for auschwitz

Where did you learn about this?

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or the Japanese concentration camps. USA bigot since day one. USA more like a white supremacists wet dream.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

i mean Hitler was literally inspired by the US.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Every day thousands upon thousands of people were being killed. Why? Because they were wearing the uniform of an enemy country. Killing people for wearing the wrong clothes (or maybe just standing too close to someone wearing the wrong clothes) is what a war is.

It strikes me as odd to be super upset over internment when more Japanese people were killed when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked. Internment was obviously bad, but compared to other shit happening at the time? I guess the people killed in the war couldn't tell their story afterwards, so we don't care about that? Or maybe it's because we've been indoctrinated to believe that killing someone for wearing the wrong clothes is good and honourable?

There was a Japanese insurgency in Hawaii, so some of the people held in internment camps were actually insurgents. Obviously most of them weren't. But what's the difference between that scenario and hitting a military target and a lot of civilians getting killed because they happened to live a little too close to a military target? Because that kind of shit was happening all the time in WWII.