#Japanese concentration camps

[n0thingiscool]

I'm also disgusted but am even more disgusted at how I'm not surprised.

The US government is a fucking monster.

The US gov has:

- Released zinc cadmium sulfide on its own cities as undeclared experiments.

- It intentionally gave American black men syphilis.

- It's been caught sterilizing American women of color.

- It put innocent Japanese Americans in home brewed concentration camps while rewarding its trash soldiers for bringing back literal skulls of Japanese soldiers.

- It recently stole and literally lost 1500 immigrant children.

- It's currently putting crocodiles in the Rio Grande.

- I mean, ffs, its foundation is built on handing out blankets laced with small pox to natives.

The foundations of US government is violent murderous trash. And this is just a fraction of what its done that we know of.

“Israel is committing genocide.” Yes. They are. But so is the US. The US is 100% complicit in this, and Israel would not have been able to do as much without the help of the US. I’m disgusted to be living in a country that is complicit in the literal MURDER of civilians. Men, women, children, elderly, families. All dead because of Israel AND the US. This needs to STOP.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Amee Vanderpool at SHERO:

Before World War II, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had identified German, Italian, and Japanese aliens and claimed they were “suspected” of being potential enemy agents. These people, some of them American citizens, were legally kept under surveillance, and following the attack at Pearl Harbor, people from “enemy nations” and all people of Japanese descent were immediately considered suspect and referred to the US Army. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 was enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Under this order the entire west coast was deemed a military area, and was divided into military zones. Curfews were established that included only Japanese-Americans. Voluntary evacuation of Japanese-Americans from a limited number of areas, totaling about seven percent of the entire Japanese-American population, was begun. The issue of human rights had been briefly brought up at Congressional Hearings prior to the issuance of these new laws, but in 1942, no one felt these rights were important enough when compared to securing the United States. On March 29, 1942, Japanese-Americans on the west coast were given a 48-hour evacuation notice, and most of their land and private property was abandoned and never recovered.

From the end of March to August of that year, approximately 112,000 persons were sent to racetracks or fairgrounds, which had been re-labeled as “assembly centers.” People were tagged like cattle and sorted for removal to a more permanent "relocation center" where they would be imprisoned for the remainder of the war. In these "relocation centers,” also called "internment camps,” four or five families shared tar-papered army-style barracks for nearly three years or more until the end of the war. The people in these camps shared eating facilities and restrooms and had limited opportunity for work or school. Nearly 70,000 of these evacuees were American citizens, who were denied their due process rights as the federal government froze their ability to appeal their circumstances under the guise of “American security.” This was just 80 years ago. On Tuesday, Texas Governor Gregg Abbott, through the the Texas General Land Office, offered Donald Trump the 1,400-acre Starr County site to build new detention centers to fulfill his promise of mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said in the Tuesday letter that her office is “fully prepared” to enter an agreement with any federal agencies involved in deporting individuals from the country “to allow a facility to be built for the processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history.”

We are again on the brink of repeating some of the most shameful and abhorrent lessons that America should have learned long ago. While Donald Trump and his Project 2025 implementation team move to enact the fascist promises made during the election, many of Trump’s cronies are already aligning themselves to profit from the impending migrant prison system that will be nothing short of a concentration camp. Due Process Rights will again be frozen, as amnesty and human rights will cease to exist within these militarized zones. Dismissing any warnings about where we are headed by calling these claims hyperbole will cease to matter after Donald Trump assumes his office on January 20, 2025.

Amee Vanderpool wrote an excellent blogpost on SHERO that the dark days of internment camps (or concentration camps) are back again, this time aimed primarily at undocumented immigrants. But will it stop with just undocumented immigrants? Absolutely not.

[lesb0]

wow Ruth Aswa really was beautiful like Liu back in the day.

Stunning genius sculptor. Her studio doubled as her babies playroom, which I'd usually be pissed about, but her work has been interpreted as pregnant women figures, holding their daughters, their great grand daughters, inside of them all at once. Her babies were her muses. Its brilliant. She stopped weaving double wire basket sculptures after they grew up. One of the most unrecognized American artists.

[allthebooksandcrannies]

I was today years old when I learned that Canada also incarcerated Japanese immigrants and Japanese Canadians during World War II.

I knew America had concentration camps for people of Japanese ancestry, but I had never been told by anyone that Canada did too. I only figured it out now because the Wikipedia article on the American camps had a link to the page on Canada's.

Seems like something that should be talked about more often. I hate how America centric even our world history classes are.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Today is the 82nd anniversary of the signing of the executive order which allowed the internment of Japanese Americans — have we not learned anything? 🤔

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[wildbeautifuldamned]

Japanese Internment Relocation Camp Art Hand Painted Hunt, ID 1944 Rare ebay idealcollectibles

[calvins-dad]

it's such a shame that taylor has some songs i genuinely really like but she insists on being the worst, most annoying kind of celebrity to the point i can't listen to her music anymore

[jasonraish]

Infinity! A Japanese-American dance duo must choose between their passion or their lives as WWII concentration camps begin to rise in the U.S. Based on a real life dance duo Toy and Wing. A sad story forcing us to look at the shameful Japanese concentration camp history in the US. Director Benjamin To contacted me to make the key art poster for his short film and we settled on an American in Paris inspired vintage poster treatment. One Sheet size 27x40″. Staring Olivia Cordell and Jonathan Tanigaki

INFINITY! has been officially selected to make its world premiere at one of the biggest short film festivals in the world, the LA Shorts International Film Festival July 19-27, 2023. Congrats to the cast and crew.

[thorsenmark]

Manzanar Cemetery Monument by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While taking in views of the landscape present in the Manzanar National Historic Site with a view looking to the southwest. This is of the Manzanar Cemetery and monument with a mountain backdrop of Mount Williamson.

[the-psudo]

The government can and will put immigrants and citizens into internment camps that also qualify as concentration camps due to the population concentrated in a small area. They've done it before, and I expect they'll do it again sometime in the next four years. I'm not sure that Trump specifically will be able do create a Guantanamo Bay concentration camp specifically, because he's pretty inept, because the people who run Guantanamo Bay are extremely not, and because Cuba will undoubtedly interfere and resist. I think, like Trump's wall, it will remain largely unenacted at the end of Trump's term. But it's about 70:30 odds, nothing like a sure thing. And this particular project's failure, even if it does fail, will not be because Trump has moral principles against treating anyone so badly. Trump absolutely will treat people, including US citizens, every bit as badly as the Japanese (and Koreans) were treated in the internment camps of the 1940s. That's a given.

A reminder to the "the American government wouldn't..." crowd. They have. They have made their own internment camps before. They have rounded up innocent citizens and immigrants before. The victims of which are still alive to this day and trying to share their stories with the world, they have been trying to warn us for a long time. George Takei (as seen above) is a famous example of this. He has written about his experiences time and time again, even publishing a book talking about his time in these camps. He may be famous now, but at the time he was just another kid forced from his home. To this day he still firmly dedicates himself to trying to educate and inform people, trying to spread awareness with his platform. The American Government can and will do terrible things. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.

[tempest-melody]

Things are rough right now. Current events are kicking our asses. We need to remember our history. Look at what we as a country did in the past and stand up so that it doesn’t happen again. The US has already had concentration camps, we don’t need them again.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Today is the 80 anniversary of the signing of the executive order which allowed the internment of Japanese Americans — in concentration camps on US soil.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/76-anniversary-concentration-camps-us

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[shannon-foraker]

As a Japanese American, who has met relatives who were born in an internment camp, this really speaks to me.

My relatives didn't learn Japanese at home if they were born after World War 2. The generation before them did. They didn't. So I didn't.

Some of them took Japanese in high school. We've still lost a lot.

Watch: Poet G Yamazawa nails what it’s like to grow up in the U.S. as the child of immigrants.

[thorsenmark]

Respectfully Approaching History (Manzanar National Historic Site) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While taking in views of the landscape present in the Manzanar National Historic Site with a view looking to the southwest. This is of the Manzanar Cemetery and monument with a mountain backdrop of Mount Williamson.

[notaplaceofhonour]

other apt comparisons are the reconcentrados (where the term “concentration camp” came from) used by the Spanish military against Cubans and by the US military against Filipinos in the Cuban War for Independence and Philippine-American War, respectively.

no migrant detention facilities are not auschwitz but i promise you something does not have to be auschwitz in order to be very bad. i am telling you that this comparison distracts from the point instead of galvanizing support by inviting discussion about the appropriateness of the comparison. i am telling you that there are ways to make people listen and ways to make them tune out, especially in a time like now.