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We got our very own US made Concentration camp: Mass detention without due process. Horrible surviving conditions without simple human rights. Corporal and lasting mental punishments. Made to intimidate and isolate a group of the population. Administered by state paramilitary contractors.

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At least we can take solace in the fact this is totally unprecedented, a complete first for this country.

....oh wait.

A lot of people genuinely believe this is a first because they know nothing about the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2

I knew about those internment camps -- because they were widely recognized afterward as a stain on our national character, something never to be repeated.

And I knew about the hieleras[1] and about Guantanamo.

And about so many other instances in history, from so many governments.

But I hoped our arc would not be toward more people treated this way, more proudly. I hoped we would stop running so eagerly toward the poison.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/02/28/freezer/abusive-condit...

Even before that we had practice with the Indian genocide during Jackson’s term…Trump respects Andrew Jackson a lot.

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