it’s just wrong

“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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