• jackmarxist [any]
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        11 months ago

        Sorry but they're called 'Migration Storage Facilities' not Concentration camps by the trustworthy newspaper The New York Times. This obviously means they're not concentration camps.

    • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      Probably not this time, a big part of why Japanese-Americans were put into interment camps was because Californians wanted their farms.

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        I'd never considered this, but of course it came down to economics- weird how often massive crimes against humanity come down to some bourgeois thief wanting to take more for themselves and willing to do anything to do it.

        Just did a little reading on it, they stole 400 million (1942) dollars worth of farmland from Japanese-Americans, which is like 7 billion adjusted for inflation, and basically just gave them to agribusiness corporations.

        amerikkka

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          11 months ago

          Yeah they don't tell you in school that white Californians lobbied hard for Japanese Americans to be robbed of all their land and property, and it's a big part of why their lands weren't restored to them after the war. Like western expansion never really stopped.

          I think they'd be somewhat more likely to use various schemes to enslave Hispanic migrants and citizens, given how vital Hispanic migrants are to American ag.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      No, but the risk of deportation is probably going to increase, including for citizens

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      11 months ago

      They've already got concentration camps full of south and central Americans all over the country.