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To: nickcarraway
It's like clockwork. Every year on December 7 the MSM focuses on the Japanese detention centers instead of the vets and the attack.

The article makes a big deal that some called them "concentration camps." At the beginning of the war the term did not have the evil connotation it had at the end. They were simply camps where people were, well, concentrated. Once we discovered the Nazis were turning concentration camps into death camps the term acquired a very different connotation.

Not to defend what happened. The Supreme Court adopted the strict scrutiny test for discrimination based on color or national origin, but then botched the application of that test in finding the internments legal.

Incidentally, the Hawaii Japanese were not interned for the practical reason that Hawaii could not function without the Japanese labor force. Japanese volunteered for the American armed forces in much higher numbers in Hawaii than in the continental U.S.

11 posted on 12/07/2016 3:34:17 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

“Incidentally, the Hawaii Japanese were not interned for the practical reason that Hawaii could not function without the Japanese labor force.”


Some were,but very few.

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33 posted on 12/07/2016 5:05:05 PM PST by Mears
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