Survey finds 47% of Americans support putting undocumented immigrants into militarized camps

dead [he/him]@hexbear.net · 10 days ago

Survey finds 47% of Americans support putting undocumented immigrants into militarized camps

footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.net · edit-2 10 days ago

https://news.gallup.com/vault/195257/gallup-vault-wwii-era-support-japanese-internment.aspx

In December 1942, a year after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and several months after Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast were subsequently “relocated” inland to U.S. detention camps, 48% of Americans believed the detainees should not be allowed to return to the Pacific coast after the war. Just 35% of Americans said they should be allowed to go back.

This country has always been evil

CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.net · 10 days ago

FDR was by far the best President in the history of the United States, and it’s not even close, but even he had concentration camps. The United States was always evil.

footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 10 days ago

FDR also compromised on the New Deal, excluding African Americans from many new deal programs that would have helped, and also his administration made segregation country-wide via the Federal Housing Administration and their red-lining policies (see the book The Color of Law)

grendahlgrendahlgen [he/him, any]@hexbear.net · 10 days ago

Not In My Neighborhood is also an excellent book about the history of redlining.

gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.net · 10 days ago

I would say Lincoln isn’t that far away

footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 10 days ago

Committed genocide against indigenous people

EstraDoll [she/her]@hexbear.net · 9 days ago

that’s every US president

Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 9 days ago

What we needed was a John Brown presidency but apparently it’s illegal to be that based.

gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.net · 9 days ago

As did FDR