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Originally Posted by Moejoe
We're all, as British or Americans on very shaky ground when it comes to the examples you're citing. We British (as a a nation state) instituted the concentration camp and were responsible for mass slaughters across several continents during our Empire. The Americans, famously, interred their Japanese-American population during WWII and lest we forget the whole genocide of the Native populace. And if we go even further we'll see that the American Nation, especially its corporations were inexorably linked with the death camps of the Nazi's (the kind of corporatism and capitalism that prompted the Cocal Cola company to invent Fanta because they couldn't make a profit from Cola in Nazi Germany).
Mcarthyism did not only 'deprive people of an income', it forced many into exile to avoid imprisonment, most famously being Ring Lardner Jr, the Screenwriter. There were plenty of imprisonments during the HUAC, only not of the highly public figures. A Witch hunt isn't really a Witch hunt if when you find the Witch you don't do anything with her now, is it?
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And how did the Japanese respond? They joined the military in droves, and proved to be some of the most loyal Americans around.
As for the native population, really, "whole genocide"? That would mean there were none around. Interesting.
Ever heard of the Navajo Code talkers?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker
Now, there has to be something about a country that inspires such loyalty.
I won't even try to respond to the link between American corporations and the Nazi concentration camps. I feel dirty just reading that.