[BenLurkin]

activist for gay rights and social justice = Both a pervert and a pinko

[FreedomPoster]

Regarding Democrat FDR’s internment of Americans of Japanese descent, the truth of that issue is much more complex than most understand. This book tells a lot of history that has been suppressed. Highly recommended:

Magic: The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast During Ww II
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Intelligence-Evacuation-Japanese-Residents/dp/0960273611

It doesn’t overwhelmingly justify what happened. It does make the whole issue much more debatable given the situation of the time. Which is that we had a large population of people of very questionable loyalty, and knew it and had proof of their activities.

[Dilbert San Diego]

There are many historical omissions and revisionist history told about various subjects.

For example, it was a REPUBLICAN president, Eisenhower, who sent federal troops to Arkansas to enforce a court order for school desegregation. An “evil Republican”, a member of the allegedly racist Republican party, took that action .

And to check the vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, proportionally more Republicans than Democrats voted for that legislation. Yet Democrats today call Republicans racist and worse, yet the history shows us that Republicans were key people in the coalition to pass civil rights legislation.

Also lost to history, is the key role played by REPUBLICAN Senator Everett Dirksen, in breaking the filibuster on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and helping get that bill passed into law.

It’s painful to hear these imbecile liberals, both politicians and allegedly knowledgeable “talking heads” on cable news channels, who mindless parrot back talking points that the Republicans are a racist bigoted group, etc. when the history shows that this is not the case.

[billyboy15]

I have no problem with what Roosevelt did. They started the war and got exactly what was coming to them.

Carter rounded up 1000’s of Iranians in the 70’s when the “students” in Iran took over our Embassy and held it for over 400 days while that f’n peanut farmer sat around with his thumb up his ass. The only good thing he did was ship the Iranians back home. I thought we should have locked all of them up until our Embassy was released.

If we were attacked by a foreign power I would do what Roosevelt did in a heartbeat.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

This is all designed to insure that we don’t round up Muzzies when Islamic countries attack us, even though we know that very few of them won’t Jihad.

[Bullish]

Without looking at the link, I’m going to guess they conveniently forgot to mention the fact that the interment was ordered by a democrat president.

[MarvinStinson]

What makes the Post story so amazing is that the left-wing paper publishes a lengthy story that conveniently leaves out two central facts — the who and why — of Takei’s story.

[MarvinStinson]

Mysteriously a very central fact is omitted entirely. Who, exactly, was running the U.S. government? Who was responsible for this “legalized racism” This central truth of history —what might be called, to borrow from the Post headline, a “shameful legacy” — was omitted by the Post, not by George Takei. That is clear when one goes to Amazon and checks the description of his book as provided by his publisher. That description reads this way, bold print supplied:

“In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.

[olezip]

The book tells the story of Takei’s childhood when he, along with his parents and two siblings, were rounded up and - literally at the point of bayonets - sent to one of the ten now-infamous internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II.

I worked with a person of Japanese descent who was among those who were rounded up and interred. He had no regrets and no complaints about his treatment.

There were spies among those who were interred. The Japanese spies were neutralized as a result. But no one talks about that, or even mentions it. They want you to foolishly believe our leaders were nothing but bigots and racists.

Perhaps the critics of the policy are the real racists.

[Albion Wilde]

"It is the shameful legacy of Democrat Franklin Roosevelt who signed the infamous Executive Order 9066 that sent George Takei and 120,000 Americans to internment camps - all based on the color of their skin. As I have detailed long ago FDR’s party — the Democrats — have a decidedly 'shameful legacy' of supporting 'legalized racism.'... out of that culture of blatant racism came the Japanese-American internment camps, with Americans judged as dangerous because of their skin color."

Hello? It WASN'T because of the color of their skin. I hate it when so-called conservative writers use the rancid racist tropes of the left. It was ostensibly because of their possible ties to their fatherland, which had attacked us at Pearl Harbor.

[xrmusn]

‘Forgotten’ are the Italians & Germans sent to US internment camps in WWII....

Also, how many Japanese lives were saved by them not being subjected to every day Americans who were losing friends and families?
sad-but true- the typical Japanese in America couldn’t just blend in like the millions of Italians and Germans.

Ask the ‘actor’ how many Americans were allowed to wander the streets of Tokyo etc in the WWII era.

Remember a few years back ‘they’ implied that the only reason Japan received the ABomb is that they were ‘different’.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Change of pace....have been watching a few old ‘newspaper’ type movies on TCM recently and one would be surprised how often the word ‘accountability, libel and get it right’ were raised back when they had ‘editors’.