[ComputerGuru]

You could just compare it to the Nazi internment camps for Jews, if finding "worse" conditions is the goal. (I'm being sardonic.)

(OT question: sarcastic is to sarcasm as sardonic is to ____?)

These were second and third generation "immigrants" living their normal, everyday American lives, torn away from their homes, communities, jobs, schools, churches, friends, and families. The crime isn't in the living conditions at the internment camps, the real horror is that people could be sent to them just for having a great-grandparent that came from Japan to the United States. The real crime is that hardly seventy years later, this internment is largely forgotten, the details are glossed over, and the American public (of which I am, by and large, proud to be a member of) have deluded themselves into thinking it's just another another unfortunate chapter in human history "that wouldn't happen again today" or that "desperate times called for desperate measures" and leave it at that.

[vlunkr]

Honestly, I'm not sure I remember this coming up in my high school education, we sort of just pretend it didn't happen. We talked extensively about other inhumane things our country has done, but the Japanese internment is just something my dad probably told me about, being sort of a WW2 buff. I think the fact that we don't talk about it makes it even a little more disturbing.

[lostlogin]

Sometimes events are a little too recent or close to home for some to talk about and this seems to exacerbate things. Down here in New Zealand a WW2 POW camp was established and during some a period of unrest New Zealand guards shot and killed 46 Japanese prisoners. More recently someone ripped out trees that were planted to commemorate the atrocity.

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/massacre-at-featherston/

http://i.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/65751556/pow-deaths-...

[paublyrne]

Sardonicism. It doesn't come up much.

[ComputerGuru]

Thanks.

[roywiggins]

snark?