My grandma and great grandparents were imprisoned for a long time. When my great grandfather got released he made a movie and book about the internment and the impact it made on the families.
There's a biography called Resistance: Challenging America's Wartime Internment Of Japanese-Americans that was made by my great grandfather Frank Seishi Emi and another group. My father got a copy signed by his grandpa (my grandfather) and some of the other authors signed it as well.
A small point: they were not detained because they LOOKED like the enemy. They WERE the enemy (hang on before you get butt hurt). Those immigrants that were sent to the camps obviously were not fighting us themselves, but were of Japanese origin, and we were kinda at war with Japan a little bit.
I am not defending this action but this post is factually incorrect. While we did not intern German or Italian descendants, it is worth noting that the Japanese used different tactics than their Axis counterparts, and were seen as more of a threat here at home, including the possibility of using resident immigrants as spies and/or terrorists.
But the real question is-Is it a mistake? They could go through the oppression and come out the better for it. Many of the Japanese-American units were the highest decorated units in WWII because they were fighting to vindicate their nationality.
I thought Trump was cautious about allowing non-American Muslims into the country until they sorted themselves out and not become radicalized. I won't be surprised if many Muslims in the USA are being watched by the government already.
You'd think so but this administration seems to go out of it's way to avoid connecting Muslims to terrorism. The FBI was watching associates of the San Bernardino two and might have caught them before the shit went down but the agents were told to drop it and destroy the evidence they collected.
Canada also had internment camps mandated by their government during World War II. We visited the remaining portion of one in New Denver, British Columbia last summer. It is preserved as a museum.
Statistically, terrorist/radical extremists in the United States are far more likely to be white men. So by the "logic" of some of the comments in this post, we should put white men in camps.
I don't... no one should be in a camp... but the idea that Muslims are our biggest danger is false... also, how would you know whether or not I was a white man... or a purple unicorn
I kid.
"the idea that Muslims are our biggest danger is false."
But, terrorism is a very real and very large danger, is it not?
Who is engaging in terror attacks lately, at least here in America and in other countries we are allied with? Those would be Muslims last I heard.
Yeah I mean they bomb the crap out of Pearl Harbor, treat our prisoners like savages barely feeding them.. Japanese generals have competitions to see who can chop the most heads off of Chinese citizens, but heaven forbid we lock up some Japanese citZens cause we can't trust them...
Was this before or after they dropped two nuclear weapons in huge cities full of civilians. Which is against the Geneva contract and if any country in the middle east had done what America did the war wouldn't have ended it would just have had a new enemy. It is a great example of double standards in western society
I am not defending this action but this post is factually incorrect. While we did not intern German or Italian descendants, it is worth noting that the Japanese used different tactics than their Axis counterparts, and were seen as more of a threat here at home, including the possibility of using resident immigrants as spies and/or terrorists.
I thought so.
"the idea that Muslims are our biggest danger is false."
But, terrorism is a very real and very large danger, is it not?
Who is engaging in terror attacks lately, at least here in America and in other countries we are allied with? Those would be Muslims last I heard.