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Dude, please get the fuck over yourself. 'Actual concentration camps' fucking REALLY??? Please shut the fuck up with that heinous bullshit. Yeah, the conditions are shit, but it is NOWHERE CLOSE to actual concentration camps that were used for an actual genocide. Seriously dude, fuck off.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_migrant_detentions 🖕
Unless I'm misreading this whole exchange, I believe what's being discussed is the modern day Mexican border, and the holding camps in which families are sometimes seperated. They have conditions which actively lead to people dying. Children and small women especially.
They aren't actively designed as a concentration camp, but in smaller numbers that's the end result sometimes. The problem in this conversation I see is that terrible inhuman conditions which do lead to death by the thousands each year is being compared to a place like auschwitz, which killed people by the millions each year intentionally by design.
What you're linking is true, and it was terrible, but it was also close to 80 years ago. The Japanese today have no issue with coming to America.
So this whole thread to me seems like 5 different people, all shouting 5 different arguementive points, none of which corelate with each other in any way.
......so what are we even doing here?
Concentration and extermination camps are two different things (and Auschwitz illustrated that clearly after 42 and the Birkenau camp).
A very quick glance at what happened at the US-Mexico border makes me think the camps there fit the bill, or at least the usual definition of the word (basically, indiscrinate mass internment).