Bigotry
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Editorial Note
Still trying to determine the best way to present this information. One thing that frustrates understanding the cohesiveness of Trump's bigoted worldview is that we tend to atomize it into the way that it targets and dehumanizes specific subgroups.
Internment Camps
- December, 2015: Trump refused to say whether he opposed the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. “By Tuesday morning, Trump's proposal was being compared to America's controversial past - and Trump himself was being compared to worse: When asked whether he would have supported Japanese internment camps, Trump told Time that he could not say for certain. ‘I would have had to be there at the time to tell you, to give you a proper answer,’ he told the magazine. ‘I certainly hate the concept of it. But I would have had to be there at the time to give you a proper answer.’” (Washington Post, December 8, 2015)
- December, 2015: In a different interview given on the same subject, Donald Trump insisted that he did not endorse the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. “The billionaire Republican businessman stood behind his proposal during a tour of television talk shows on Tuesday morning. But when asked whether he was in agreement with the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, he gave the morning news shows an emphatic no. ‘No, I'm not. No, I'm not,’ he said. On MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe,’ Trump pointed to immigration actions against ‘Germans, Italians and Japanese’ taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt – ‘a respected president, a highly respected president,’ he said.” (Washington Post, December 8, 2015)
