Talk:Japanese American internment/Archive2

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Shorne wrote: "I agree with those who dislike this article's apologetic tone. It gives a pro-internment POV. Just one example among many: all the harping on ships that got bombed, spies that got caught, and similar military issues seems to build up the US's case for internment. The typical Yankee redneck reader seeing all that will come to think that the internment was justified. ...There seems to be little mention of the forced acculturation that was very much a part of these camps. Nor is there a word about the hateful references to "Japs", often supplemented with hideous caricatures, that the US government disseminated."

A comment regarding the use of "hateful references to Japs" seems silly coming from a poster who uses the phrase "typical Yankee redneck" and is himself apparently unaware of the irony in his complaint.

Shorne also wrote:

"Also, while I do not wish to diminish the experience of the leftists, Jews, Slavs, and others who were sent to Hitlerian "relocation centres", I feel that the term concentration camp is entirely appropriate. It is perhaps better, in a general piece such as this one, to use the standard term instead, but I am not happy with the insinuation that these US concentration camps were incomparably milder than the Nazi ones. That is entirely too easy to say from an armchair."

Easy to say because it is entirely accurate. How does the death rate compare when comparing Nazi concentration camps to Japanese American internment camps?