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Calling the US internment camps "concentration camps" is both disingenuous and a neo-Nazi talking point.

The internment camps were a disgrace, were wrong, and the US government was right to issue both an apology and compensation to people who were interred there.

The government of Japan has never done the same to Nanking. I don't believe they ever will.

> where to this day occasional rapes by whites continue with impunity

This is yet another disingenuous point - rapes by soldiers in Japan occur, they're bad, and the military both investigates and prosecutes those who take part, unlike Japan and Nanking.



you are the sort of person who compares people who disagree with them to neo-nazis; that is not the sort of person who is in a position to question my integrity in any way, much less viciously attack it as you have

it is not controversial that the japanese-american internment camps were concentration camps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp

(you can probably find neo-nazis saying the sky is blue as well)

i didn't mention the actually occurring rapes by soldiers in japan, which i agree in the actual world we live in are appropriately investigated and prosecuted; as demonstrated by my link, i was talking about rapes by whites in pine ridge and other so-called indian reservations, which to a large extent are neither investigated nor prosecuted


> you are the sort of person who compares people who disagree with them to neo-nazis

I'm really not - calling the internment camps "concentration camps" is literally a neo-Nazi talking point and meant specifically to draw moral equivalence between the Japanese interment camps and the death camps in Germany during World War 2. I'm sorry if that offends your delicate sensibilities, but it's true. Look over my comments on this account if you don't believe me here - I have not and do not call people neo-Nazis for disagreeing with me (and I'm not calling you a neo-Nazi, I'm saying that it's a neo-Nazi talking point).

I think there's no other fruitful discourse we can have here.




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