From FDR's POV, the camps were no "mistake". They were a big win. California Dems loved em
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They really assuaged that fear of terrorism/sabotage, which was a cheap mask for "economic anxiety", which was a cheap mask for just racism
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Analysts say the camps were an extremely costly strategic error and that's true from a pure military POV
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But from a political POV it was a great move. Wanna make white ppl "feel safe" and vote for you, lock up minorities. They eat that shit up
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Still works today. There was a long stretch when to run for anything in CA you had to have your "law and order" credentials
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There's been analysts who said, from a purely cold blooded military POV, Germany could've won the war if not for the Holocaust
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That rounding up millions of your own ppl to murder them makes no sense if you're "just" trying to take over the world
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But Hitler wouldn't have been in power if not for the Holocaust. Germany wouldn't have been trying to conquer the world if not for that
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The racism wasn't some excuse used to build the war machine, the war machine was a tool to realize the dreams of racism
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When they were losing the war the Nazis diverted resources FROM the front lines TO the camps
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Racism is not some side effect caused by war. Racism is the cause of war and a beast that all participants in war must appease
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Here's the ugly truth, typical Americans didn't give a shit abt the abstract "freedom" vs "fascism" debate
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Just a few years before Pearl Harbor a ton of Americans thought Hitler seemed like a cool guy
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