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Originally Posted by dzikijohnny
I am saying that it was enough of a military necessity given the time that to say it was just based on race is historical revisionism. Don't blame on racism what can be explain on necessity and fear and stupidity. Lots of things done in WW2 were stupid.
There was no military necessity to evict and lock up US citizens of Japanese ancestry or Japanese immigrant labourers who'd been there for decades and would be naturalized citizens if the law didn't prevent them from becoming citizens. There was no land war in the coastal states and no prospect of there being one.
I'd have no problem with locking up Japanese citizens who were recent arrivals, worked in professional positions, or in war-sensitive industries, or who had frequent travel to Japan. But the only reason that most Japanese Americans and their parents were locked up is because they were of Japanese ancestry. That's inherently racist.
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Originally Posted by dzikijohnny
And I am not racist against the Japanese. I eat sushi, like movies, book of 5 rings, and lot about the culture.
You forgot to mention that some of your best friends are Japanese.
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Originally Posted by dzikijohnny
But they fought the war a lot worse than the Nazis in a lot of ways and I am Polish and my father was in Poland at beginning of War. And they have fought peace much worse. They have always ignored all there crimes. There was a quote that 60% cannot tell you what Pearl Harbor was.
Your careless use of "they" conflates a lot of different groups. The American citizens of Japanese ancestry had no involvement in or responsibility for the faults you list. Nearly all Japanese citizens alive today have no responsibility for the crimes committed in WWII. The only thing all these "they"s have in common with the case this thread is about is that they share Japanese ancestry, so your whole case is racist.