• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’m saying that when your country is invaded, worrying about respecting the people who’s culture is the same as the invader’s is a great way to get a bunch of fifth columnists. And I’m not sure why you’re not aware of that. Similarly, despite the many British people of German heritage, in 1939, their “unique British-German culture” was not relevant and was not respected and should not have been.

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      4 months ago

      This was the rationale behind America’s Japanese internment camps, which in my opinion, weren’t great.

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        4 months ago

        I mean there’s a happy medium between not allowing things like allowing them to openly celebrate Russian stuff and putting them in internment camps…

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          4 months ago

          To be clear, you think Japanese Americans shouldn’t have been allowed to speak Japanese anymore?

          How long should this have persisted?

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              4 months ago

              That’s a chunk of what the article is about. That’s one of the main things…

              What do you think the article is about?

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                4 months ago

                I thought we were trying to define what counts as genocide, not what this article is about. Which are we doing?