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In reply to the discussion: Remember how FDR executed American Nazi sympathizers? [View all]HiPointDem
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remain.
not sure what your point is. i'm not supporting the internment.
simply the facts, as you say: morbidity and mortality rates *weren't* high. *few* (five, actually) people were shot by guards.
tule lake wasn't auschwitz & topaz wasn't dachau.
and the majority of japanese/americans living in US territory *weren't* interned.
(which actually demonstrates that there was no real justification for the internment policy. 1/3 of the population of hawaii was at least part japanese, and few of were interned. hawaii was a us territory; the japanese had attacked it; it was a way-station to the mainland -- yet the majority of persons of japanese ancestry there went about their business. i suspect because interning them would have disrupted hawaii's plantation labor supply.)
but after 911, it was easy to understand the hysteria after pearl harbor, as well as the overreach of executive power.