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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This is literal insanity.

Are they going to put Mexican Americans in internment camps next?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. That is 100% the end point of this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, not the end

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Probably the plan.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Idk if you meant it as hyperbole... But yes, yes, he is sick enough to try that. And a sliver of even bigger morons would/will vote for him.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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