What if we didn't put Japanese-Americans in internment camps?

[xsited1]

This came up over dinner...what if, during WW2, we didn't put them in camps...would they have been the victims of mob mentality?

There is no question about it. That's why it's important to protect groups of people based on nationality, religion, race and/or sexual orientation by rounding them up and putting them in internment camps.

 

[michiganFats]

Hawaii may have been the only place where common sense was exercised. If you see a Japanese guy standing outside of a military installation taking pictures, or spending a lot of time talking to servicemen then you may have a candidate for a internment camp.

 

[editec]

One thing we can be fairly sure of .

Japanese Americans families would have been somewhat weathier had they not be imprisoned.

I've heard many of them lost everything because of it.

 

[michiganFats]

Yep. Too many Japanese familys lost their wealth. That was not playing fair

 

[Xenophon]

Hawaii may have been the only place where common sense was exercised. If you see a Japanese guy standing outside of a military installation taking pictures, or spending a lot of time talking to servicemen then you may have a candidate for a internment camp.

The only guy actually doing that was a Japanese ensign, not a US citizen.

 

[garyd]

Interesting topic. Ole J. ED. HJoover thought the Japanese were among the most loyal citizens we had. Far more so than the Germans and Italians. He was dead set against those camps. The man driving it was Earl Warren later the worst chief justice the supreme court ever had. Some have made the case that his penchant for empowering criminals at the expense of law enforcement arose out of his guilt over the treatment of the Japanese during WWII. Interestingly enough most of those interned were not from Hawaii but from California and there it was little more than a thinly vailed land grab.

 

[xotoxi]

What would have happened if the atmosphere had been filled with methane instead of Oxygen all those years ago? I was just wondering.

You would be able breathe easier after farting.

 

[DiveCon]

What would have happened if the atmosphere had been filled with methane instead of Oxygen all those years ago? I was just wondering.

well, the atmosphere is only aprox 21% O2 now
its mostly nitrogen