whyyoustabbedme:

whyyoustabbedme:

America is the world’s largest terrorist state.

Up to 200 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico
border are being held in this tent city outside Tornillo, Texas:

This is a news film produced in 1942 by the U.S. Office of War Information, entitled “Japanese Relocation." 

It’s one thing to know internment camps are part of U.S. history, but to understand the validity of the comparisons being made today, you really need to take a look at how this historical atrocity was presented at the time. As Kirstjen Nielsen put it recently, no one was "apologizing for doing their jobs” then, either. They were just better at controlling a narrative.

Notice the all-too-familiar cognitive dissonance of looking at images of frightened, tired people as you’re told that they’re actually “cheerful” and being well cared for. Don’t miss the 4:56 montage of abandoned Japanese-American owned businesses, or the 7:43 detour to the children’s block to discuss the “emphasis” put on meeting all their needs. (They are twice as likely to develop cardiovascular disease, and the children specifically endured much worse Post Traumatic Stress Disorder than the adults.)

Historical context is critically important to understanding current events.