How many of you think putting Japanese-AMERICANS in camps in 1942 was the way to go?

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I read a comment yesterday that received 8 thumbs-up. THe comment was about Truman being a great man, trying to defend his country in the best way possible by putting in camps 110,000 AMERICANS just because their parents were born Japanese. (1942)

Are people that selfish? Can't people put themselves in other's people shoes, realizing that if it happened to them, they would probably see it a different way?

This is the main problem I see with America today ... people believe they are superior. They believe we can justify all methods in the name of freedom ... a fake notion of freedom.

People should just be more educated. It's scary.

How many of you think putting these AMERICANS in camps in 1942 was the way to go?
 
FDR interned over 110,000 Japanese Americans, and smaller numbers of Italian-Americans and German-Americans, in WWII. Although the US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the action, I know of virtually no one who supports this move today.

Knowing what I know (and I was not alive during WWII, much less in government or the military), I strongly disagree with the action.
 
After the Japs attacked Pearl. Americans were so outraged that no Japanese looking person would have been safe walking the streets. It was for security reasons and to protect them.
If anyone needs to be more educated, it's you. And I suggest that you not get it off the far left loon web sites.. They just make you look stupid when you ask a question.
 
Actually those were all Japanese-United Statesians.

To identify a person with a nation and a continent is nonsensical.
 
They did what they thought was right at the time. You can't apply today's values with those of over 50 years ago.

I think it was at that time.
 
Truman had nothing to do with the internment camps for Japanese Americans, it was FDR. Truman wasn't even VP at that time. It was a big mistake and it was wrong.
 
It wasn't Truman who did that, it was Roosevelt who signed off on it. There was scarcely a peep of protest. Funny what happens when people are facing invasion. It's a lot easier to judge the people of that time than it was to be them.
 
it was wrong, but a lot like gitmo in these times....sorta. internment without any reason for a lot of it. i'm sure there were some japs and germans plotting then too. i think we should lock up the illegals or make them WALK BACK. let them deport themselves. give them a jug of water and a box of saltines and send them down the road kicking cans or something
 
Historical experts agree that the internment of American citizens during the Roosevelt administration was a tragic, unfathomable error. Fear has a way of transforming even the most compassionate among us to perform egregious acts of bigotry.
 
it was a terrible way to try and protect them. I dont think it was the way to go, it made them, Americans, born in this country look like criminals because of their race....
 
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