I am not asserting that both interning Japanese and depriving covid vax dodgers of their rights are morally equivalent by some objective standard.
I assert that the closest subjective experience for most readers of this post to ‘supporting Japanese internment as a member of the public’ and ‘participating in efforts by the state to intern Japanese people’ is ‘advocating for the deprivation of civil liberties to covid vax dodgers’ and ‘creating and enforcing policies to that effect’.
Culturally, Americans and Westerners in general are fine with stuffing groups into camps, the pow camps where demobilized german soldiers were housed (and many starved) after the second world war, are viewed as ethical by most Americans, like the pow camps during the American civil war.
History views Japanese internment as immoral, but after the US government paid a penalty, the issue is viewed as settled. The treatment of covid vax dodgers is recent enough that we can’t be quite sure how history will view it, but for the moment, plenty of people think we didn’t go far enough.
Thank you for helping me clarify my thoughts.
I am not asserting that both interning Japanese and depriving covid vax dodgers of their rights are morally equivalent by some objective standard.
I assert that the closest subjective experience for most readers of this post to ‘supporting Japanese internment as a member of the public’ and ‘participating in efforts by the state to intern Japanese people’ is ‘advocating for the deprivation of civil liberties to covid vax dodgers’ and ‘creating and enforcing policies to that effect’.
Culturally, Americans and Westerners in general are fine with stuffing groups into camps, the pow camps where demobilized german soldiers were housed (and many starved) after the second world war, are viewed as ethical by most Americans, like the pow camps during the American civil war.
History views Japanese internment as immoral, but after the US government paid a penalty, the issue is viewed as settled. The treatment of covid vax dodgers is recent enough that we can’t be quite sure how history will view it, but for the moment, plenty of people think we didn’t go far enough.