Okay, I'm going to weigh in on this one. In reading the previous posts I see myself and bulldogg being pretty close on perspective (which is kinda scary
)
I think we can all agree that hindsight is 20/20, and in hindsight we all know it turned out to be a bad thing. Many times Japanese-Americans lost everything just so that white Americans could profit from it. That's pretty much the worst of it. A far cry, as bulldogg pointed out, to what the Japanese did to whites - whether they were military or not. Another truism we all know is that two wrongs don't make a right, but in comparison, there really
is no comparison. Rape, torture, slave labor, violent and brutal death just can't compare to losing your belongings and money.
Too often we judge people in history by what we know years later and not in the context of their times. I think this is one such case. For example, Hawaii was mentioned. I wonder how far the internments would've gone if it weren't a fact that there
was sabotage done by Japanese-Americans during the Pearl Harbor attack. Racism has been mentioned, and yes, that certainly played a part, but much more so was the fact of a devastating and unprovocted attack with no declaration of war. We are so knowledgable now of that period we'd like to forget that we
have forgotten that in WWI something very similar happened to German-Americans due to
their sabotage (while we were still neutral) and sinkings of ships carrying Americans.
So, my answer is this, if you don't want something bad to happen to your people, don't do something bad to another people first.
