@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:
Foofie, Your world is a very limited one. Here's a good definition of "concentration camp."
Quote:concentration camp
n.
1. A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions.
2. A place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions.
We lived in tar-papered shacks that had no protection from the elements such as snow climate, because we could see the dirt ground under our wooden floors with one pot-bellied coal fed stoves in harsh climate. Some families with 7 - 8 members lived in one room about 25'X25'. Some lived in horse stalls.
Some Japanese-American citizens were shot and killed by the soldiers, because they got too close to the barbed-wire fence.
Most families lost everything they owned except what they could carry to the camps. Our mother had to care for three small children to the camps.
You're an ignoramus!
No one got gassed, or worked to death.
While living conditions were abhorrent, the lack of concern on my part does not make me an ignoramus. It makes me just an American citizen that believes that there was no way to put all the west coast Japanese in motels. But, based on the concern about saboteurs, the internment camps were the most expeditious thing to do, in my opinion.
I am just not offering you the degree of commiseration that many others would offer you. That does not make me an ignoramus. It makes me just less compassionate towards you than others might be.
The fact that some white Americans were telling Japanese to go back to Japan has nothing to do with me. I care less whether Japanese are in any country, including the US. I do believe that the addition of the Japanese genome to the US gene pool will only result in positive benefits for future American generations. Thank you for your genome.
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