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Weekly Political Issue Thread: Immigration
Topic Started: Apr 26 2010, 07:05 PM (646 Views)
Dzagugli
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Fluffy
wow, combine that with putting them in concentration camps 20 years later and thats almost a holocaust, without the genocide though, probly only because it would have seemed hypocritical to our allies that we were fighting a war partially to end something that we almost mirrored
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CKubat
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Not really. Holocaust is defined as "Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire." It was really just anti-foreign fear for the Quota thing, and the concentration camps were only for the Japanese and was due to fear or spies, not a hatred of the Japanese. (Though propaganda did cause people to start to hate them.)
"Damn forests, always reminds me of pansy elves." -Kagain

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Dzagugli
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Fluffy
I'm not saying that its truly a holocaust, im saying that many of our practices closely mirror those of the holocaust.
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CKubat
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The closest parallel I can see is the internment camp. They were not designed for extermination or to create a common enemy, unlike the Jews.
"Damn forests, always reminds me of pansy elves." -Kagain

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Dzagugli
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But most of the anti-jewish atrocities committed by germans were committed in such camps, and, even though they didnt kill anyone, the connotation of "internment camp" is very negative because of the germans.
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CKubat
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True, but that's not what I'm trying to say. Yes, the camps are terrible, but the purposes of the American camps were far different than those of the Germans. Ours was to merely contain a perceived Japanese spy threat, while their camps were designed to kill people or work for the German war machine.

I think we're just arguing in circles here, even though the we agree on everything.
"Damn forests, always reminds me of pansy elves." -Kagain

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