That during WWII it was totally okay to intern over 300,000 Japanese-Americans in concentration-like camps . Do you agree?
2006-09-26 05:45:41 · 14 answers · asked by carey sanders 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Since they were looking for spies, it was quite a bit cruel but they felt that they were protecting the people at the time. Just like if they racially profiled at airports today. And no, get a history book, they weren't "concentration-like camps" they were internment camps. You really need to further your education, young lady because you are so clueless, I'm waiting for you to make a comment about cute shoes or something.
2006-09-26 05:49:11 · answer #1 · answered by Kris B 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not if your country isn't trying to handle it's own fears in a sensible and mature way.
Put yourself in a 1940s American's shoes. Maybe you round up and lock up Japanese people in your neighborhood. Maybe you don't. The real important thing is to check how badly you are just caving into your own fears. Older generations make mistakes. If generations who follow are to learn from the mistakes we MUST also remember that Americans in that time certainly could have caved in to their fears a lot worse. There was sincere courage then. And a lot of people were truly trying to just do whatever might be best.
2006-09-26 06:13:51 · answer #2 · answered by roostershine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was definately not ok, but what would you have done in that situation? It was a time when people were scared out of their minds that their neighbor may be plotting to send over the next bomb, and they were the target. How do you even answer a question like that? People who say it's ok are thought to have no remorse for those who were innocent. People who say it's not ok have no empathy for the decision makers then. I mean people were paranoid then. Shoot, they're paranoid now, too.
2006-09-26 05:56:32 · answer #3 · answered by Peapod 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. But what do you expect from Democrats? The party of the Confederacy, slavery, segregation, Jim Crow and KKK is the party of FDR, who interned the Japanese.
After all, concentrations camps and gulags are a leftist invention...
2006-09-26 05:49:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Even if you agree it was acceptable, what was clearly unacceptable was the refusal to make reparatinos after the way.
Innocent American-born people lost homes, businesses, income; everything that generatinos had worked hard for.
All without an apology.
2006-09-26 06:04:16 · answer #5 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can't speak for what happened back then, and looking back it looks like the wrong thing to do, But that view is based on how we see things NOW, and that is no way to make a fair assessement
2006-09-26 05:51:41 · answer #6 · answered by Jim G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not as it was done.
Same with the Germans interned here.
But what does that have to do with immigration?
2006-09-26 06:31:55 · answer #7 · answered by DAR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, foolish little one...
We were at war.
When you grow up
You will realize what that REALLY means.
BTW one of our dearest friends was born in an internment camp....he understood, his family understood....We were at war...a war we did not instigate....
Perhaps when bombs are falling around your head....
Then your brain will engage....
One can only hope.
2006-09-26 05:50:37 · answer #8 · answered by Kate 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No next to slavery this is america's most shamefull episode these were americans, they didn't put germans in these camps.
2006-09-26 05:51:17 · answer #9 · answered by region50 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are posting on the wrong forum....this is immigration.
2006-09-26 12:14:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋