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by DamnYuppie 2620 days ago
Stop acting like something that happened nearly 80 years ago is relevant today. Did we go crazy and lock up every Muslim after 9-11? That was a different time, a great deal of progress has been made since then. Sometimes I think too much progress as we are unwilling to be tough against those who seek to do us harm.
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The problem is that the same people who sold the 9/11 surveillance state were (and still are) making the argument that Japanese-American interment was justified, and would be justified again in the same circumstances. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Defense_of_Internment

There was also some rhetoric explicitly referencing interment (in a positive way) during the 2016 presidential campaign.

And to remind, the Korematsu decision - which, essentially, made it all legal - wasn't overturned until last year, either.

So it's not exactly ancient history.

> Sometimes I think too much progress as we are unwilling to be tough against those who seek to do us harm.

We invaded a whole country (Afghanistan), sent many to places like Guantanamo Bay, and bombed them throughout Africa and the Middle East. What more do you want?

Yea it's not like it had any long last effects such as the lost of valuable property and wealth that was stolen after they were forced from their homes or the lost of opportunity due to stolen years.

No that doesn't matter anymore even though the people that lived through it are still alive.

No that doesn't matter despite people in politics literally raising the specter of doing it again and in some cases, directly suggesting and defending it as a future potential action.

We're totally reaching when we bring it again.