My daughter's 8th grade English teacher felt the need to discuss how America's treatment of Japanese citizens made us no better than Nazis. ...
There's no way the teacher can claim, in any sane way, that this made the US no better than the Nazi's. You are right to take it up with the administration.
The internment of US citizens, though, was truly shameful. I have had the honor of meeting people who were at Heart Mountain and other camps. Some were young children when they were sent to the camps, and some saw their fathers leave to fight with distinction with the 442nd and other units. Incredible people, with amazing character, and we could do with more like them.
Nazis, we weren't. But it was an awful chapter in our history, nonetheless. And given the rhetoric around Washington, D.C. these days, it's a lesson we'd all do well to remember.
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