FAR FAR from it. this is rediculous. for
1.Afghinstan didnt do it, it was muslim terrorists
2.Japan put us into internment camps. and in there view, was it Justified? Hell yeah it was. but from our view, was it Justified for us to put them in camps? because of yours views, NO
Right. Muslim terrorists from Afghanistan (in the case of Osama's faction, at least). I would wager that most Afghanis aren't terrorists. However, that's just the kind of equation you're making when you equate a Japanese American with a Japanese soldier.
...the vast majority of Americans (and British) Japan put into camps were POWs. Also, Japanese Americans are NOT the same as Japanese! They're AMERICANS of Japanese ANCESTRY.
this being true, there were still spies, and people loyal to the home country. im sorry If I sound like a biggot, but this just needed to happen, FOR ALL JAPANESE. we were VERY leniant on them
How the hell are they spies? Most Japanese immigrants and JAs were not loyal to what you call "their home country." Many hadn't even set foot in Japan. Little to none of them were even in Japan during Japan's phase of increasing militarization.
And yes, I'd say that you do sound like a bigot. Punishing an Japanese American for something a completely unrelated Japanese person has done is like going around hitting all the women you can find just because one blew you off.
Dont even play the racist card. unless, your going to place it FAR worse on Japan and Germany and the phillipines."Slap a Jap" was the only racist thing there was out there. Because of there treatment? why the hell should they be disgusted?? they got food, and not just bread. THEY didnt have to work in fields, or get beaten or tortured. they didnt have to do nothing. most of them played games, and had a good time.
>_< Please read what you're responding to! When it placed the Japanese Americans into internment camps, the government basically said "Regardless of who they are, what they've done, and how innocent they may be, these people are bad just for being of Japanese descent. We're discriminating against them, so you can/should, too!" This is definitely racism-legitimizing behavior.
Also, arguing that they didn't have to work in the fields and weren't beaten by their guards does not mean that life in internment camps was fine and dandy. They were prisoners! They were kept behind barbed wire for crimes they had never committed! They were deprived of freedom! The lives that they'd been living were taken away from them! Making the most of a bad situation, "playing games," trying to encourage each other, trying to set up some form of schooling so that children wouldn't be held back after the internment ended doesn't mean that internment was good! Those are the actions of people struggling to regain some sense of normalcy in a situation they neither predicted nor deserved!
Because they wanted to stay in the great country of america, and didnt want to get beaten in Japan for being a traitor. smart poeple
No. It's because America is the only home most of them ever knew. Many of the Nisei had never set foot in Japan. A significant proportion of them didn't know Japanese, either. It's like telling an American of Swedish ancestry to move to Sweden, when they've been born and raised in the States.
Also, America took control of Japan after WWII. I doubt the small bunch that actually chose to repatriate would've been beaten by Japanese there as traitors. The Japanese people as a whole were discontent after WWII when they realized how empty war promises and updates from the government were, and how their empire-building was destined to fail.
Blame Japan, not America. this is also part of thats pretty much the only pity I ever really gave to the Japanese. but hey, chinese people gotten treated worse still, before the war, even though america didnt ever fight them. but looking at a buyers point of view, THIS IS GOLDEN. buying houses pennies for the dollar, making lots of money merching, buying and re-selling, this is like bill gates handing out millions free.
It's not handing out stuff for free. It's having stuff taken away against your will. Capitalizing on theft is not something I believe is morally justifiable.
Also, excusing someone's suffering by saying someone else suffered worse is highly problematic. It's like saying: It's okay to beat your children if you were beaten as a child yourself! Since other people's children suffer more, it's ok to make you suffer traumatizing experiences as well!
Due to the fact that Japan could terrorize Japan more for the fact that there would be tons of support if there was mass amounts of Japanese left there.
You didn't even read what I said there, judging from your response. VERY few Japanese were interned in Hawai'i. Even the governor of Hawai'i at the time agreed that it was completely unnecessary to round up individuals of Japanese ancestry. The few who did end up in camps were generally rounded up on an individual basis based on either their leadership role in this or that community (Priests, etc.), or some sort of individually determined grounds for suspicion, and persons who volunteered to weather the camps out with relatives on the Mainland.
In easier to understand terms: Hawai'i had the most Americans of Japanese ancestry. An extremely tiny amount of these people (especially to those rounded up on the mainland) were interned. However, chaos did not erupt, and the Japanese Americans there did not terrorize anyone else.
Well, with the exception of one Nisei who encountered a Japanese pilot after he crash-landed, and tried to control Ni'ihau (one of the most sparsely populated islands of Hawai'i. It's privately owned, and only persons of Hawai'ian ancestry (who are related to persons of Hawai'ian ancestry already there, I believe) are allowed to live there, as it a place where a pre-Western contact way of Hawai'ian life is preserved.). Note, however, that this is the
only example of a JA helping out Japanese imperial interests that I have found in my research on the subject, and did not shake the faith of even the highest elected official in Hawai'i in the loyalty of Hawai'i's JA population to America. The Nisei and his act were shunned by the rest of the JA community, obviously, and treated as a freak act of crazy.
It wasnt racist, it was fair. At least its better than the president issuing a command to rape/kill/ steal from the japanese at there own pleasure without getting in trouble. I mean, Thats what hitler did to the Jews
Equating Japanese Americans with Japan itself is inherently flawed. The people who were interned had nothing to do with the war or the attack on Pearl Harbor. If that's the logic you're taking, then why weren't the German-Americans also put into an internment camp? Quick answer: they were
white.
As I stated earlier, the 100th and 442nd battalions (both all Nisei) proved their loyalty to America time and time again, even in the face of racism and even though they were sent on many missions that were almost downright suicidal. If the Japanese Americans were all spies for the Japanese, why the hell would they do that?!