caketastydelish
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I was having a discussion with a Jewish person one time regarding the holocaust, and I said "Well we Americans are not so innocent ourselves. Remember what we did to the Japanese with our internment camps?"
She said no, and that you can't compare the holocaust to the Japanese interment camps. I am fully aware that the Japanese internment camps were not NEAR as bad as the concentration camps in Germany, but it was still wrong- and certainly a racist policy. It was clearly discrimination, was it not?
The point of this thread is not to discuss the severity of the Japanese interment camps to the Holocaust- obviously the holocaust was drastically worse. But rather, can you compare to the two to any degree at all? I personally think you can.
She said no, and that you can't compare the holocaust to the Japanese interment camps. I am fully aware that the Japanese internment camps were not NEAR as bad as the concentration camps in Germany, but it was still wrong- and certainly a racist policy. It was clearly discrimination, was it not?
The point of this thread is not to discuss the severity of the Japanese interment camps to the Holocaust- obviously the holocaust was drastically worse. But rather, can you compare to the two to any degree at all? I personally think you can.