“It’s so important that we remember: Japanese internment camps were never called internment camps when they were active. They were called, “Detention Camps,” “Relocation Centers” & “Assembly Centers.” Children are currently in “Immigration Detention Centers.” It’s a very similar title for a very similar situation. One glaring difference is: Even families in internment camps were allowed to be together.”
—Michelle LeClerc
If you can’t understand that pulling children from parents to put them into Immigration Detention Centers is wrong, we have zero to talk about.
If you can still be friends with anyone that thinks pulling children from parents to put them into Immigration Detention Centers is ok, we have zero to talk about.
That is it. As clear as I can make it.
This is the part of the movie where you stand up to the Nazis, regardless of how nice they are to you personally.
And before you Wokesplain that “this isn’t America”
– because of legitimately awful things our government has done in the past, really ask yourself why you’re injecting that into the conversation.
Is it to educate people about our checkered past or is about you derailing the conversation to be about yourself and how totally woke you are?
Either way, it’s hardly constructive and adds little if anything to the dialogue.
If America is more powerful as an idea then I think there’s a value in harnessing that idea for action rather than what often seems like dismissive flagging.
If people can be motivated by appeals to their better nature, tying that to long-dead predecessors at best contributes nothing and at worst creates a drag on people’s activist intent.
Maybe go twirl your white guy dreads somewhere else.
—jason malmberg
Flommist Jason Malmberg is a simple man who believes in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art sometimes. Copyright © 2018 Jason Malmberg. Photo source.
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