[decimon]

The headline is not the article.

This is well written. The Relocation program was not alien detention but was for, primarily, Japanese citizens. The purpose was to move them inland. If they had some place to go on their own then they could avoid the camps.

[a fool in paradise]

The German born painter Max Ernst was interned several times in France at the start of WWII. First by the French and then by the Gestapo after France had been conquered.

The revised historical record would make you think that this was only done in America. How did US citizens in Japan fare?

I know how America, Dutch, and Russian prisoners fared at camp 731.

[kenavi]

In Orange County California, there is a building owned by a Japanese-American family, named for the Mexican to whom they gifted their nursery business prior to their deportation. He returned it to them after the War.

[Vigilanteman]

There are a fair number of them who ended up not going back to the coasts after the war because the people in flyover country treated them so well. There is a small, but vibrant Japanese-American community here in the Pittsburgh area, most of them associated with the universities or hospitals for which we are famous.

There is even a larger community of them in Salt Lake City who were helped to settle their by sympathetic Mormons whose ancestors had been kicked out of their own homes about a century earlier.

I'm not sure how many other places in the nation have similar Japanese American communities, but I do know that, with few exceptions, they've been an asset to their communities.

People in flyover country tend to judge people by what they can do rather than by the artificial platitudes of diversity. It was no coincidence that Booker T. Washington picked some little hick town in Alabama to found his great university rather than some glorious melting pot of diversity like New York City where more African Americans were lynched during three days of draft rioting than in any of the three worst years in the entire South.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks decimon. The upshot is, the Japanese who were interned weren't impressed as slave labor, tortured, or mass-murdered. They were also not subjected to abuse by various racists in the street (an obvious potential hazard had they not been interned). And, as a libtard college chum once pointed out, the Japanese had zero success in building any kind of reliable or nontrivial network of spies, and never broke our codes, and that ain't a coincidence. What's the big deal anyway? FDR could do no wrong. Sure, he knew about Pearl Harbor in advance and moved the aircraft carriers out of harm's way, knowing that carriers would be crucial in the Pacific war, but really, who thinks more lives would have been saved (particularly in the U.S.) had we not been dragged into a declaration of war? No ping, just adding to the catalog. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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