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When I went into the Rohingya camps in Myanmar in 2015, I also talked to people in town who were happy their former neighbors were in camps. Insisting they weren't racist or bigots, many said all they really wanted was for the government to deport the Rohingya to another country.
They claimed the Rohingya were illegal immigrants, rapists, and terrorists. If I mentioned a Rohingya they actually knew, they would sometimes acknowledge maybe *that* Rohingya person wasn't a criminal. They often argued that the Rohingya should be deported as a group anyway.
It was heartbreaking. I was there just after Trump had declared his candidacy in the US, and it was the same rhetoric, almost word for word. A little over a year later in Myanmar, the military drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya over the border amid terrible atrocities.
I think people today tend to reach first for the Nazi example because with the Final Solution, Germany entered another universe and descended all the way into the abyss. So it's the camps story that is foremost in people's mind and is told most often--as it should be.
And no two moments in history are ever the same. But camps, sweeps and roundups, deportations and demonization of minority cultures--these things have happened over and over. They never end well. It's only a question of how far a nation will descend before it stops or is stopped.
read it was same n the South w Whites saying they were not against Blacks - they just dont want them n the South hear same thing from Israelis who say they aren't against Arabs, they just want them elsewhere I see a pattern
Indeed. Or when they say they can't be antisemitic because they support the state of Israel.
The NYT had an article this week about influential Buddhist clerics who aren't shy about expressing religious chauvinism. This also happened in Sri Lanka. In Buddhist majority countries even the religious leaders engage in ethnonationalism, or ethno-religio-nationalism.
"Tell that to the Rohingya" is what I say when Westerners mythologize Buddhists.
The fact this has happened in other countries doesn’t make it any less evil here
I think the argument is that it makes it MORE evil here
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