It is intended as an explanation, not an excuse. Americans were scared of the Japanese. Both sides did horrible things in WWII.
I learned about it in elementary school. I learned a tiny bit more about it from working with a gentleman who was in one of the camps as a youth. His parents immigrated to the US and him and his brother were born here. His brother elected to move to Japan to live with the grandparents instead of going into the camp and they haven’t seen each other in person since.
And many Americans are scared of Muslims today.
It was racism. Pure and simple. Your laundry list of item included items which had not occurred when the order was made
Even a casual reading of the subject gives many, many details concerning the racism at play. The Wiki article is a good start if you don’t understand that aspect.
And if you were not making excuses, why the line about both sides doing bad things?
If internment was simply based on racism, how do you account for the internment of Germans and Italians?
Pure and simple my ass.
Americans of German and Italian descent were put in camps? Man, New Jersey must’a been empty.
They interned ALL of the German and Italian Americans during WW2? Where did they put them all?
No, they quickly realized that would be absurd and examined each case accordingly. 25000 out of approx ~11 million German Americans were put into detention camps.
Somehow the same courtesy wasn’t applied to the Japanese. Instead they rounded them all up and sent them away.
Do you not see the difference?
So, did MacArthur change out minds after the war? Why did we begin buying radios, motorcycles and cars?
Surreal, I believe you are confused. The limited number of German and Italians interned were, in fact, German and Italian citizens. Your article highlights the case of an American citizen who was interned - because his parents were enemy aliens and he was thier child…
That’s what the term “enemy aliens” means in this context, and explains why most Americans of German and Italian ancestry were, of course, completely ignored.
The Japanese-Americans interned and displaced were mostly American citizens.
I don’t think this is accurate since Executive Order 9066 allowed both aliens and U.S. citizens to be interned. However I do agree that a much larger percentage of the interned Japanese were U.S. citizens.
The Sheridan Report outlines the reasons for the discrepancies between the treatment of the Japanese as compared to the Germans and Italians:
Are you denying there was racism against Japanese in America prior to WWI?
WWI or WWII?
I don’t have a clue, I wasn’t a twinkle in my Father’s eye until after he helped win the Second World War.
I had a one-sentence intro in high school, but only because I was in AP American History. I don’t know that it was taught in regular history classes at all.
My real education was when I was working in Immigration Court in the early 1990s. One of the judges was Japanese-American (3rd generation), and he gave me a copy of Farewell to Manzanar once while we were on a work trip together. And then he told me the story of his grandmother, who had been interned. Apparently when Japanese-Americans were first made racially eligible to naturalize, her response was along the lines of “screw you, you didn’t want me then. Why the hell should I want you now?” Can’t say that I blame her, under the circumstances.
Obviously should be WWII.
Why would you want to argue something you are completely ignorant about?
Same here.
Calm yourself, you’re going to bust somethin’.
Oh, I forgot. You are the one who goes on and on about Japanese eating POWs. Now I remember. You had neglected to include it in your laundry list of Japanese war crimes.
If I recall correctly you aren’t interested in a civil dialog on this so I’ll bow out.
It does seem to anger you.
carnivorousplant
Your post suggest that your comment was made to simply anger another poster- that is trolling.
I’m not going to warn you here- but do not do this or you will be warned for it.