Japanese American Bird Pins

Re:Japanese American Bird Pins by carabiner on Monday April 08, 2024 @05:11PM (#39973763)

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.

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Re:Japanese American Bird Pins by ianburrell on Monday April 08, 2024 @06:38PM (#39974456)

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.

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