(THE COLLEGE FIX) – Students at a Maryland public elementary school were treated to a lesson which compared measures to secure the U.S. southern border to the Japanese internment camps of World War II.
As noted by The Washington Free Beacon’s Matthew Foldi in a Twitter thread, the obvious contrast between the two situations is glossed over in the North Glen Elementary School lesson: Interned Japanese-Americans were U.S. citizens, unlike those detained for illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
“What do you notice about these two images (above)?” the narrator asks students. “What looks the same? What looks different?”
Racism becomes the focus of the internment: “Japanese people and all Asian people were experiencing a lot of racism. That’s like bullying someone for having a different skin color. And they were being told that they don’t belong in the United States. This is becoming worse for Asian people living in the U.S. at this time. Especially Japanese people.”
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