Hidden History: did you know that the US government ran its very own concentration camps decades before the Nazi Holocaust?

“Never mind”?  Yes, that’s right, it’s completely unimportant. 

No it isn't completely unimportant.  It's the pattern of what we have done to any number of peoples in any number of countries since our inception.

Please be accurate. Rosie posts all the time how wonderful life has always been in the United States up to and until Donald Trump took office. She also blindly states that practically everything all previous presidents ever did was great and beautiful and jolly-gee-willickers-groovy-gravy.  Someone certainly IS claiming it. Before you embarrass yourself with your inaccuracies, re-read the corner posts and you’ll see it’s a common theme. 

  As for you ranting about wanting reparation, who is “we”, and for whom are you touting reparation?  You’re not of Philippine  descent, your ancestors were not placed in those concentration camps, were not slaughtered on Sulu Island, or Samar, or on Mindanao, or any of the other battle sites in the Philippines. 

  You are right about the progress the US government has achieved. Before this land was even stolen from the Native American people who lived here before white colonization began, those same whites deemed their skin color as the only valid one for considering who was a human being. Progress. Dark skin means slavery. Speak a language other than English, you’re a savage, so your language is disallowed. Progress. Believe in a religion not recognized by Christianity? You’re a heathen, so you need salvation, and your “pagan” beliefs are wrong. Progress. You don’t wear the same clothing that whites wear? Barbaric, you’re uncivilized, so your customs are now unlawful. Progress. Fast-forward to Jim Crow Laws, the origins of the Klu Klux Klan, cross-burnings, lynch mobs, literacy tests for voting, segregation of schools and living areas and military units, race-based employment opportunities, etc. Progress.  In the pie-in-the-sky wonderful America, all of this has taken place beginning over 200 years ago, yet sobbing about Donald Trump requires some people to pretend that no evil ever existed in government prior to him. 

  Crack open a history book, but not the ones put out by the myopic establishment. Look beyond your own fingertips to seek truth. Read for the sake of understanding, not just to find let’s-disagree-with-Randy fodder. If you re-read my post above and your so-called rebuttal to it, you’ll find that you’re as off-topic as anyone can be. This post was edited by Randy D at October 2, 2019 4:29 PM MDT

To be fair, Rosie's family history in the USA only dates back to just after the First World War, when large numbers of Armenian Turks fled that genocide. Since then, the only war crimes America has committed didn't involve concentration camps - just mistreating German POWs in France in the immediate aftermath of VE, incinerating thousands of Japanese civilians in nuclear hellfire, doing the same to Vietnamese civilians with jelled gasoline (napalm) etc.

No true ....The American government infected a towns black population with Syfilius and left them untreated for thirty years or so, just so they could study them...Clinton apologized to them while he was still in term...
The American government tried out many chemical weapons on the public and also army personal while testing the first nuclear bombs in the Nevarda desert....hundreds of soldiers were placed close to where the bombs exploded....
The American government paid them a paultry sum in later years as compansation....
I think John Whanye was subjected to it to when america blew up an atoll in the Pacific Ocean....The whole atoll has a concrete cap over it and the people in close by islands are still suffering...
England constructed the first concentration camps during the Boar War in Africa....They killed every man ,women and babies to.....
Ariel Sharon did the same in Isreal in the concentration camps for the Palastinians....Nothing seems to be said about these attrossities though......Victors write the rules and also history books to it seems....
The English introduced Smallpox to the tribes of American Indians....they did other terrible thing to to steal their lands.  

To be fair, don't ever take what he says as accurate. I talk to Rosie every day. I talk to Randy every day. And Randy defends America and it's past WAYYYYY more than Rosie ever has.  

  That's not a question of fairness, it's more like selective memory. Anyone who says that things have ALWAYS been better in times past is merely ignoring truth or ignorant of truth. 

Your first paragraph is totally opinionated hyperbole.  It is your approach to any argument.  Deflect. I did not ask you that nor did I say that in my answer to you.  I don't even remember what I said.  I didn't re-read it.  I just know me, and I remember your saying this like YOU NEVER USE THIS EXACT TACTIC YOURSELF.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA?  YOU ALWAYS HAVE THAT AS A MAJOR THEME. OH JUST LOOK WHAT THEY DID.  You are a perfect republican.  You live up to your name.  You say I am a lousy flirt?

I can say the same for your debate skills.  Nonexistant.  

That first line in my post focuses on those who have been whining, not on those who have not. If you are not one of the whiners, you are not to whom I directed that reference. 
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I admit that before posting my answer I had just heard people in person making somewhat similar (vaguely similar, I should say) comments about anyone who opposed anything about President Trump, that there was something wrong with me if  I did not support everything the man says or does. 
And I took your words as all people, not specific people. 
I also know you're very particular about your word choices and I quickly read "people" as "all people."
My answer may have been more of my own reaction to my own personal experience of hearing those other people and then almost immediately seeing your question. I let the timing influence me.
Thanks for getting back to me.

For what it's worth, my answer helped me work through some of my frustrations I've had with many people who live in my area.
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This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at September 30, 2019 10:51 PM MDT

Thank you, pal. 

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You're welcome.
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Xxxxxxxx. :( 

Thanks, Nice Jugs.
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This example is only one of many that I have presented so far and will present of how life hasn’t been rosy and peachy-keen up until 2016; I haven’t forgotten anything nor any of them.  There’s a blatant lie being put out that paints an inaccurate picture, and I’m merely exposing truth in its face. 
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England and our royal family fare no better.....we were the most evil bastards ever trying to inflict out evil religious beliefs on every country we tried to steal for people....Just look at what we did to Australia and America ,Africa, Chaina ,India Arab lands and god knows where else...

I do ...but not the salted type or if it's the one you microwave.....the microwave bags contain one of the worst cancer inducing chemicals ever.....:(