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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I always wondered how the US could be so cruel to lock up 120.000 people into camps during WW2, for simply having Japanese descent. I thought we had outgrown such overt bigotry as a species. But it turns out the war machine whips even the most respectable people into a xenophobic frenzy.

[โ€“] crushyerbones -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These are not Lithuanians of russian descent. They are specifically foreign citizens living in Lithuania.