trois_pample wrote:
Hmm... so... these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/...f_Japanese_Americans (The first sentence: The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000[5] people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast.) are getting reused for migrants from south America (
https://time.com/...-children-fort-sill/)... I'm not saying we shouldn't be calling for boycotts or demanding basic human rights for everyone, but... it's going to come off as a little hypocritical if you're doing it in China and not in the US. One of the best places you could start is by phoning the politicians who are supposed to be representing you, since you might have more sway with them than with an unrelated government on the other side of the world. Or maybe you could boycott the products that come out of the states were American concentration camps are getting reused right now?
I guess I think it’s good to work near and far for justice.
The stories of our own internment camps are super important. I think I read there were 10 internment camps in our country. Thank you for bringing them up.
I was introduced as a little tiny kid to a man named Alfredo Cipolato in Missoula, Montana.
Mr. Cipolato was born in Italy and worked at the World's Fair in NYC in 1940. His obituary says that when the US entered WWII, Mr. Cipolato unintentionally went to the internment camp in Fort Missoula, Montana. There, he worked on train tracks and picked sugar beets. That’s a nice way to say he was imprisoned and endured forced labor. It can be described so benignly. His obituary does not complain at all. But if we are thinking adults who understand the suspicious mindset that prompted the establishment of the internment camps which stripped all civil rights from the prisoners, we should be able to divine the ugliness that he undoubtedly endured in this camp in our own country.
Mr. Cipolato eventually had an Italian market in Missoula and sang with my grandfather and father in a men’s choir. Later I went to college in Missoula, and I bought pasta and sauce from his market. It was very expensive. I could not afford his pasta and sauce on my student budget. Lol!
In Wyoming there is an internment camp called Heart Mountain. I haven’t been there, although I hear it is very intense.
American history is super important because we’ve done almost all the bad shit we want to condemn in other countries. If we visit our own internment camps and hear the stories about the victims of our oppression, we have more empathy for people struggling on the other side of the world. So, we need to look at injustice here and there. We have enough brilliant and energetic people to care for both.