Re:Japanese American Bird Pins
by ndkxmwnrbto on Monday April 08, 2024 @05:06PM
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isn’t it interesting how the camps set up by the Good Guys who won the war weren’t so bad, and the camps from the Bad Guys who lost the war were really bad?
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I do wonder about bias but so far there's no evidence of gas chambers at these camps. It's not hard to find descendants of these camp prisoners (I went to high school with one) in the US and they don't seem to hold much animosity towards the US govt for what was a terrible mistake.
I imagine that if these camps were actually much worse that what is reported, we'd hear it from the living nisei today.
Re:Japanese American Bird Pins
by ianburrell on Monday April 08, 2024 @06:38PM
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Of the 120,000 Japanese in camps, 1862 known to have died. That was lower death rate than the US overall. Probably cause there were fewer elderly since immigrants tend to be young. I'm sure there is research if deaths were excessive but couldn't find it.
Compare to German concentration camps which would probably be called death camps if not for the extermination camps. Or to the Japanese internment camps in China.
Internment camps were bad but they are lower level of bad.
Re:Japanese American Bird Pins
by nonrandomstring on Monday April 08, 2024 @05:10PM
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How do you mean "interesting"?
That there must be a benevolent God who favours the good guys in wars?
Or that history is written by the victors; ergo "The Nazis weren't so bad"?
Or that the story is false, and really the Japanese American camps were as bad as Auschwitz and Dachau?