"Note that 'unaccompanied minors' is now a term of art. It no longer means 'minors who come to the border unaccompanied,' but rather 'children who have been ripped from the arms of their parents and put into concentration camps built for that purpose.'
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"Tomorrow [today now] is the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The enemy that was engaged on the beaches of Normandy has reappeared inside our own shores. It must be destroyed yet again."
-- Paul Campos, 2019-06-05
"I wonder if I will be alive when some future politician solemnly apologizes to the victims of the late 2010s concentration camps and swears that America will not repeat those mistakes.
"Japanese internment was an atrocity but it was committed in the context of a world war that people were understandably anxious about (even if internment was not in any way justified or useful.) I thought we had learned our lesson and would never do anything like it again.
"Instead we are doing it in peacetime for no discernible reason beyond putrid sadism."
-- Nobody, commenting on the above
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And this is why everybody had to dig up their parks to plant vegetables in the USA.
https://qz.com/1201502/japanese-internment-camps-during-world-war-ii-are-a-lesson-in-the-scary-economics-of-racial-resentment/
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Sigh. I'm embarrassed by my country's government.