Uhh Japanese internment and Mexican repatriation were genocidal actions. The US only stopped mass stochastic involuntary sterilization of natives in the 1970's. Some still happen to this day.
If you don't know your own country's history why are you speculating on the history of the USSR?
> Uhh Japanese internment and Mexican repatriation were genocidal actions
No, they weren't, “genocide" has a meaning, and neither of those fit it; it doesn't just mean “bad”. (OTOH, you ar every much correct that the Native American genocide continued in the period in question.)
This is a semantic argument that I have no real interest in arguing.
Call it genocide, call it ethnic cleansing. Genocide as a criminal charge is mostly a political matter.
California literally admitted that they targeted citizens of Mexican descent for the explicit purpose of illegally cajoling them into emigration and enforced deportation. You learn about it euphemistically as "repatriation" (if at all because almost no HS curriculum teaches this) because oopsie.
If the USSR rounded up all the Japanese and put them in a camp, you wouldn't hear the end of it in the West. Roosevelt himself used the term concentration camps. You learn about it euphemistically as "internment" because "they had a good reason to do it, and sometimes you know we get things wrong!!". An argument that can really only be used if you prelabel good guys and bad guys.
The main difference between US camps and USSR camps is that the US camps were nicer and had food.
The quality of repression scales with the wealth to some degree. The USSR couldn't support the same quality of life for their prisoners that the US could.
Today the US refuses to provide the same quality of life for their prisoners that less wealthy OECD countries do provide.
marcosdumay|1 year ago
What does my country history have to do with anything on this discussion? It's all about the US and the USSR.
dragonwriter|1 year ago
No, they weren't, “genocide" has a meaning, and neither of those fit it; it doesn't just mean “bad”. (OTOH, you ar every much correct that the Native American genocide continued in the period in question.)
_pi|1 year ago
Call it genocide, call it ethnic cleansing. Genocide as a criminal charge is mostly a political matter.
California literally admitted that they targeted citizens of Mexican descent for the explicit purpose of illegally cajoling them into emigration and enforced deportation. You learn about it euphemistically as "repatriation" (if at all because almost no HS curriculum teaches this) because oopsie.
If the USSR rounded up all the Japanese and put them in a camp, you wouldn't hear the end of it in the West. Roosevelt himself used the term concentration camps. You learn about it euphemistically as "internment" because "they had a good reason to do it, and sometimes you know we get things wrong!!". An argument that can really only be used if you prelabel good guys and bad guys.
The main difference between US camps and USSR camps is that the US camps were nicer and had food.
The quality of repression scales with the wealth to some degree. The USSR couldn't support the same quality of life for their prisoners that the US could.
Today the US refuses to provide the same quality of life for their prisoners that less wealthy OECD countries do provide.