Unkotare
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we are talking about internment campsracism was a reason for internment camps? please explain and proveYeah they did change, we know 1000 times more about history than they did when you went to school, and again 1000 times more today than when I went to school. People write their dissertations often on one event in history, it can take decades to study certain eras, some people have dedicated their lives to studying WW II alone. I knew about the all internment camps because I studied WWII for at least a decade on my own (not full time mind you).I was taught history throughout elementary and HS but it was still very generalized. So far you haven't disproved anything I posted, simply confirmed it. I'm 65 so yeah I learned a lot of what you did except I took it farther in college............ I happen to know a little bit about what I'm talking about.
Oh and the 19th and 20th Century freshmen courses were still fairly generalized, hell of a lot of information to cover in those two centuries alone, can't cover it in detail in a freshman course.......
Oh and do a simple search online, you'll come up with a lot of information concerning WWII internment. You also have to realize when you start talking history to the vast majority of people their eyes glaze over, they're really just not interested.
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Hmm..., I guess education curriculums changed between the time I was educated and your education since I'm 20 years. older than you. I was reading the newspaper at the age of eight while WWII was in full swing. In fact I remember the interruption of Captain Midnight on WOR-NY AM announcing the death of FDR of a cerebral hemorrhage in April 45 just before the surrender of Germany on May 8th....
You talk about age, in elementary and HS I was taught about a myriad of subjects we now know to be false or at least highly questionable in both science and history. The use of modern technology and modern methods has vastly expanded our knowledge and wiped away some long cherished ideas/explanations.
If you get into a detailed study of WW II then yes you will learn about all the internment camps not just the Japanese ones. Was there some racism involved? Of course there was, was it the reason for tossing people in internment camps? Yes and no. Is it not taught in general HS and college courses because of the "Democrat's racism"? You're grasping at partisan straws to build a strawman. Good luck with that.
Concentration camps.
That’s not what fdr called them. He called them what they were.