Exploiting fear
@amadeo (111938)
United States
February 1, 2017 3:12pm CST
Good afternoon.I recall one of the first things I learned in school.Growing up in the thirties and forties and a mistake being made that we were afraid of people.
Who were different from us.The cruel confinement of Japanese Americans.
How they were round up and put them in a camp somewhere.Do you remember this in the second War?We also fail to open up our border to Jews who were fleeing from the Nazi Holocaust.This was a mistake and very foolish,shameful
never thought we make the same mistake again
I am very ashamed see fear is exploited to hatred and cruelty
I had to say something about the ban on immigrant and the muslim etc.
Some of you here may not remembered this.
photo is public domaine
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8 responses
@crossbones27 (49721)
• Mojave, California
1 Feb 17
It is pretty sickning any way you look at and then to say it is for security reasons boggles the mind. Some of it is fear, most has to do with people's hate towards other people I feel. I learned this in the military just how bad people hate other people that believe differently than them and look differently than them.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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1 Feb 17
It is worrying that people conveniently forget history and don't see it repeating itself. Thankfully there seem to be a lot of folk who would kick up enough fuss for this not to go as far as it did back then. Very sad.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
1 Feb 17
@Poppylicious yes it is.The new generation are not aware of this.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
2 Feb 17
There are millions who think like you do including me. The President needs to be removed before he starts WWIII
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
3 Feb 17
@redurnet I don't follow him on Twitter, I guess those who say kind things to him are fans. Hes a actor, not a president. And a giant piece of nasty.
@redurnet (1798)
• United Kingdom
3 Feb 17
What worried me the other day is reading comments from people on Twitter who had responded to a tweet by Trump saying that the Obama administration had allowed refugees from a particular country and wasn't this crazy and disgusting. So many people were agreeing that it made my heart sink.
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
4 Feb 17
It was about 20 years before my time, but I have learned about it over the years. Sad.
@bluefre (63)
• Manila, Philippines
3 Feb 17
How different are we really from one another? We eat, we breath, we love, we cry... How can some people have power over the lives of others that they judge different from them. I just finished reading a book about the life of a Jew during the Nazi Holocaust (Life with a Star by Jiri Weil), I'm afraid we're reliving that time in some ways.
@Jazzyb00 (37)
• Florence, Kentucky
3 Feb 17
I hate the fact that instead of focusing on helping the poor or homeless, we focus on something that won't work in the first place. I have no hope for this country.
@jstory07 (140051)
• Roseburg, Oregon
2 Feb 17
I remember my grandmother telling me that her family bought a Japanese family farmer to give back to them after the war was over.
@JudyEv (342271)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Feb 17
During WWII many Italians and other Europeans were rounded up in Australia and put in camps simply through fear. That was shameful too. Their wives and families were left to battle on as best they could.
