U.S. TO TURN FORT BLISS, SITE OF JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMP, INTO A NEW CONCENTRATION CAMP
I have to admit that I know far more about Nazi concentration camps than I do about the internment camps in the United States during World War II. For the latter, I learned about how America forced Japanese-American citizens into internment camps as a general mention in grade school history. It was essentially presented as “this happened, you should know it happened,” and then on to the next topic. I and probably most other Americans of all ages learned far more about the Japanese internment sites from tv shows and movies. In other words, history included in fiction. But while it happened and we should know, we now really need to know and understand more. Especially now. Why? Because the U.S. army just handed a mystery company a contract to build a new concentration camp on the old Japanese internment site.
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That’s terrifying, and it’s astounding that the even the Trump administration is looking to glorify past American this atrocity by normalizing it with a new one. And using the term concentration camp is literally accurate and not sensational at all here. We did it before, and we’re about to do it again. Some bare facts about the old history here are that between 1942-1945, the United States pulled more than 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and imprisoned them in internment camps. Almost 80,000 of them were American citizens. That’s the precedent and direct history. And some mystery company just got a $1.2 billion contract to turn Fort Bliss back into an internment camp. This should greatly concern everyone who isn’t MAGA, and everyone who is.
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Let’s also remember that the United States Congress in 1983 formalized that the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans 80 years ago was born from “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.” Then in 1988 President Ronald Reagan formally apologized for the American government itself, and authorized reparations of $20,000 for anyone still alive who was imprisoned in an American internment camp. But now, America is going to revisit this horrific history with a new internment camp, literally a concentration camp. It’s likely that a revived Fort Bliss-as-internment camp will be filled with immigrants the government says are illegal. But the thing with concentration camps? Any and all perceived enemies end up being put in them. And Trump increasingly sees anyone who doesn’t agree with him as an enemy.
Do we really need to remind Americans that concentration camps are a dangerous horror? The very question answers itself, and is a horror in itself.
