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[–]EuropeanAwakening14 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

He wasn't talking about war prisoners. Nice try, though.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He said,

But it's not like they were discriminated against, like they would be in America.

Treating prisoners different on basis of skin color is still discrimination. It's a fair comparison, especially when we use the reverse examples that happened in the U.S. German prisoners in America actually pointed out they were still treated better than actual Black citizens.

https://time.com/5872361/wwii-german-pows-civil-rights/