2/19 Passed Without Notice Here

[Unkotare]

I was waiting to see if anyone noted the date. Many here are rightly outraged at what China is doing in Xingjiang, and yet...

 

[Synthaholic]

Iwo Jima Day? Have we ever celebrated that?

 

[Lastamender]

I was waiting to see if anyone noted the date. Many here are rightly outraged at what China is doing in Xingjiang, and yet...

Tienanmen Square.

 

[Unkotare]

1942

 

[Lastamender]

1942

The day they interred the Japanese. Just guessing.

 

[White 6]

1942

Japanese internment in America by FDR

 

[Rambunctious]

Iwo Jima Day? Have we ever celebrated that?

Ummm that would be March 27th....

 

[Rambunctious]

FDR orders Japanese Americans into internment camps....
remember...the smoke was still billowing from Pearl Harbor....Sailors were still under going life saving surgery and Japanese subs were sighted along our west coast....
Not to mention Japanese American citizens had a target on their back and unfortunately were actually safer in the camps than at home...

 

[Unkotare]

FDR orders Japanese Americans into internment camps....
remember...the smoke was still billowing from Pearl Harbor....Sailors were still under going life saving surgery and Japanese subs were sighted along our west coast....
....

And none of the AMERICANS thrown into fdr's concentration camps had anything to do with that.

 

[Unkotare]

.....
Not to mention Japanese American citizens had a target on their back and unfortunately were actually safer in the camps than at home...

The most disingenuous excuse ever.

 

[Lastamender]

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Not to mention Japanese American citizens had a target on their back and unfortunately were actually safer in the camps than at home...

The most disingenuous excuse ever.

It might be disingenuous, but it could also be true. I was not around in 1942.

 

[Unkotare]

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Not to mention Japanese American citizens had a target on their back and unfortunately were actually safer in the camps than at home...

The most disingenuous excuse ever.

It might be disingenuous, but it could also be true. I was not around in 1942.

Doesn't matter. If lots of people were angry at you because of your race, would the proper response be to throw your ass in a concentration camp? Would you be ok with that?

 

[JLW]

Germans and Italians were also detained or sent to camps.

Why America Targeted Italian Americans During World War II | HISTORY

Over 600,000 “enemy aliens” were singled out during the early days of the war.

www.history.com

Internment of German Americans - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It doesn’t make it right but when a nation is at war and the fate of civilization is at stake, some actions will be taken that we will later regret.

These camps were unfortunate and should not have been permitted.

 

[Lastamender]

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Not to mention Japanese American citizens had a target on their back and unfortunately were actually safer in the camps than at home...

The most disingenuous excuse ever.

It might be disingenuous, but it could also be true. I was not around in 1942.

Doesn't matter. If lots of people were angry at you because of your race, would the proper response be to throw your ass in a concentration camp? Would you be ok with that?

Why would I be? Again, this is not 1942. Holding people from the past to today's standards should be a non starter.

 

[Unkotare]

Germans and Italians were also detained or sent to camps.
.....

At nowhere near comparable rates. Consider that Americans of German heritage were and are the largest ethnic group in America and that German Americans were actually convicted of espionage and sabotage during the war, unlike Japanese Americans.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Why would I be? Again, this is not 1942. Holding people from the past to today's standards should be a non starter

Like targeting peons from the Nazi regime when they have lived good lives under a free nation?

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Wasnt FDR a......

DEMOCRAT??

 

[Moonglow]

If FDR didn't do it the states would.

Roosevelt authorized Executive Order 9066, issued on February 19, 1942, which allowed regional military commanders to designate "military areas" from which "any or all persons may be excluded."[16] Although the executive order did not mention Japanese Americans, this authority was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were required to leave Alaska[17] and the military exclusion zones from all of California and parts of Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, except for those in government camps.[18] Internment was not limited to those of Japanese ancestry, but included a relatively smaller number—though still totalling well over ten thousand—of people of German and Italian ancestry and Germans deported from Latin America to the U.S.[19]:124 [20] Approximately 5,000 Japanese Americans relocated outside the exclusion zone before March 1942,[21] while some 5,500 community leaders had been arrested immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack and thus were already in custody.[22]

Internment of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[meaner gene]

If FDR didn't do it the states would.

Internment of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

As you pointed out, FDR didn't order the entertainments, but by EO gave that authority to the military, that exercised it at their discression.

Since the buck stops here, FDR was ultimately responsible for illegally detaining the Japanese, German and Italians that were citizens, and legal alien residents.

 

[Moonglow]

I am German yet I am not complaining about what happened to the Germans during WWII in the USA...