[jlillyreed]

> I like to think that the "West" has progressed since then.

You might like to think so, but you'd be VERY VERY wrong. This year Trump surrogates began justifying their proposal to create a muslim registry by saying that the Japanese Internment gave precedence for their desired actions.

[sctb]

Yes, the no-politics experiment has ended (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251), but this comment is not great for HN in any case. When discussing controversial topics, the bar is actually higher for civility and substantiveness, and we need to especially avoid introducing flamewar topics without anything new to say as the guidelines ask of us. We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139936.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: assuming the factual part of your comment is true, it isn't really off topic in an already-highly-politicized thread. I was reacting to what seemed like an injection of partisan politics, but there seems to be a reasonable connection between the two subjects, so we've put this back. The bit about making comments more civil when topics are divisive is still important, so please be mindful of that.

[jlillyreed]

> assuming the factual part of your comment is true, it isn't really off topic in an already-highly-politicized thread

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/us/politics/japanese-inter...

Is that a good enough source?

[lomnakkus]

Key word: Proposal

I mean, yes, I agree that we're seeing some extremely worrying signaling from the coming US administration, but it's not actually happening right now... and it would hopefully be struck down by (at least) the Supreme Court. Notwithstanding that, it's extremely worrying that these things are actually popular ideas... which I suppose speaks towards "moral superiority", so point taken.

[YPCrumble]

Aren't we still in political moratorium week? How does one flag a comment?

[DanBC]

To flag a comment you click the timestamp, and then click the [flag] link. There's a small karma threshhold - you need about 30 karma to do so.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

It was ended.

[striking]

Clearly 'dang needs to remind people of this.

[dang]

We're looking through all the comments that mention this and replying to all of them when other users haven't already.