# Japanese Internment

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-internment/613395>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 20, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-internment/613395 "2012-02-20T04:19:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-internment/613395/61 "2012-02-22T14:22:50Z")

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Umm… First of all, I’m not the one that wrote the OP. A TINY bit of research on your part would have cleared that up.

Second, a TINY bit of asking for clarification of the OP would have cleared up any other misunderstandings. But you’re correct, people didn’t try to figure out what he meant, they reacted. They assumed, drew unfounded conclusions, and posted inflamatory crap. Really, can’t we rise above that?

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**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-internment/613395/62 "2012-02-22T14:24:49Z")

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I don’t think the OP is a racist, I do think the OP showed an almost callous amount of naivete in his wording.

And I was about to make a topic about language sensitivity killing legit discussions driven only by curiosity, like about gender reassignment. I’m not a PC cop in the least.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-internment/613395/63 "2012-02-22T14:39:31Z")

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> [@grude](#):
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> I don’t think the OP is a racist, I do think the OP showed an almost callous amount of naivete in his wording.

Agreed. But I didn’t have a terribly hard time getting to the root of his question. Apparently other people did, though.

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**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-internment/613395/64 "2012-02-23T19:16:55Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> For what its worth (not much, I’m afraid), Manzanar is\* beautiful\*.

I’ve been by there - it’s definitely a beautiful area but keep in mind that it’s a desolate wilderness. You’re on the way to Death Valley. The first time I drove by (on the way to Mount Whitney) I thought “It’s gorgeous but I can see why they put a concentration camp here - even if you hop a fence you are in the middle of nowhere and if you go wandering off you’ll probably die”.

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**Author:** ![Amasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Amasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amasia)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-internment/613395/65 "2012-02-24T03:55:10Z")

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I’m sorry if I missed someone else raising this point, but I just wanted to note that in place of internment on Hawaii, the islands operated under martial law after 1941. Conveniently, the U.S. Supreme Court found the martial law unconstitutional… in 1946.

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