@bookstodon Another really good graphic nonfiction book I've read recently, and recommend, is WE HEREBY REFUSE, regarding the Japanese-Americans forced into concentration camps in WWII.
The story addresses a common victim-blaming response to the plight of others: "Why didn't they fight back?" It's almost always the wrong question, even though indeed, they did fight back. Victim-blaming is a pernicious permission structure, allowing us not to care about terrible events that happen to other people.
@kimlockhartga@bookstodon Most Japanese Americans & Asians (in US & outside of it) called them concentration camps - not internment camps. Colonial, racist governments called them internment camps in US & Canada but that's a dishonest word for them. Internment camps are for military personnel. Japanese & Asians(anyone who looked Japanese) were rounded up & imprisoned in colonial concentration camps. Many died in them.
@kimlockhartga@bookstodon And what a strange question? Wouldn't it make more sense to ask, "Why didn't more Americans, especially white Americans with power, fight against this?"
@kimlockhartga@bookstodon There are likely many who did try to oppose, and others who believed it was wrong but didn't know what to do, were afraid, or hopeless. All these stories would be good to study and learn from.