YES. Only the crying candy-*** revisionists disagree with FDR on this. We should never have apologized for the internment. The stinking Japs sneaked in on us at Pearl. Why should we trust the lousy Japs here?? Once a Jap always loyal to Tojo and Hirohito. They were put in country clubs with golf courses and tennis courts and all their food and medical was free. So why all the fuss. These G-D Nips got a great deal and should not cry about it. FDR is my hero!!!
2007-07-22 01:36:09 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It isn't revisionist thinking to say that a decision made in the past was wrong. It would be revisionist to say it didn't happen. Those that disagree with the decision aren't saying it did not occur they are saying it was a bad decision.
It was obviously discriminatory since the U.S did not lock up Italian-Americans nor German-Americans. In fact those two ethnic groups were welcomed into the armed services. If you can't see the obvious discrimination, I feel sorry for you.
I revere FDR and the remarkable job he did during the depression and how he handled the office of President during WW2. The internment camps for Japanese-Americans was a bad decision. Perfection eludes us all.
2007-07-22 02:06:17 · answer #1 · answered by Michael J 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The government did it, not much to be done about it now, and it wasn't only the Japanese that were put into interment camps. They also sent Italians and Germans into interment camps too. Why is that almost never mentioned, some of my ancestors were sent to the camps, because they were from Italy. Would it surprise you to know that J Edgar Hoover was actually against sending people to interment camps?
2016-05-20 18:40:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was right at the time. The whining wimps who fail to look at events in the context of history will bawl about how horrible this time in US history was, but remember, at this time they were NOT called Japanese-Americans, they were Japs, and to even use the term Japs today elicits cries of protests from PC crybabies. Go back to 1941 and it was different, and I doubt if most Americans saw anthing wrong with rounding up all the Japs and getting them behind barbed wire. But the crybabies today have their priorities all messed up, and this is why the two US border patrol agents, Ramos and Compean, are behind bars serving long prision terms for trying to protect this country from illegal alien drug smugglers.
2007-07-22 01:44:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I have always felt that we can not make a moral judgement against past generations with the morals that we have today.
What was done was most likely proper at the time, but it would not fly very long today.
Regarding your comment that they were held in country clubs, I think you need to re-evaluate what you consider to be "a great deal" EVEN if they were held in Ivory towers, they were still held against their will. I have seen the footage of the internments, and I think your comments are border line revisionist.
Does this mean that I think there was not a 5th Column element in place? Absolutely not, I am sure that there was, but that did not mean that business properties needed to be stolen from legitimate citizens.
2007-07-22 03:33:11 · answer #4 · answered by wi_saint 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
FDR interred Japenese American because he didn't believe he had the resources to protect them from violence by fellow Americans in retalliation for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This is little understood by many, but I have it first hand from those to lived through these times.
His interrment of the Japenese probably saved many of their lives as US sentiment quickly turned violent towards anything Japanese.
2007-07-22 09:27:47 · answer #5 · answered by Fancy That 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At least their heads weren't chopped off with swords. Ever read about the Rape of Nanking? The Bataan Death March? The Japanese military were VERY cruel in Word War II.
2007-07-22 06:15:22 · answer #6 · answered by packerfan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if one performs an act based on the knowledge one has at the time and later receives additional information which may have changed the original act had they known at the time did the person really do wrong at the time ? we all perform actions which are condemned by others because they are not seeing the situation exactly like we do.
2007-07-22 03:42:25 · answer #7 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only the Japanes in the West Coast states were interned. --Not the ones elsewhere and in Hawaii.
2007-07-22 12:45:11 · answer #8 · answered by Mark 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't right. Neither was it right for Japanese Americans to lose their homes, businesses, and all their property.
Were there spies? Probably. I don't know if that problem could have been dealt with in another way.
2007-07-22 09:10:17 · answer #9 · answered by Pascha 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Japanese intelligence had a well organized 'fifth column' set up on America's west coast.
2007-07-22 02:35:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋