“Of course you approve” of the indiscriminate stripping of thousands of American citizens of their most basic rights on the basis of their membership in a disfavored ethnic group? Seriously? And you hope that Thomas would approve?
I prefer Prof. Somin’s position that Thomas would have disagreed with Korematsu.
“indiscriminate”
So you prefer discrimination! Why you racist!
The world had watched Japan’s military war machine for several years and was well aware of its barbaric practices on civilians in the lands it occupied. Now it had launched an undeclared war on American and killed Americans on American soil.
Korematsu’s case was not decided on its fairness but rather on the constitutionality of the CIC's Executive Order.
Korematsu was not excluded from the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race. He was excluded because we are at war with the Japanese Empire, because the properly constituted military authorities feared an invasion of our West Coast and felt constrained to take proper security measures… that the military urgency of the situation demanded that all citizens of Japanese ancestry be segregated from the West Coast temporarily…
An aspect seldom discussed is the danger Japanese-Americans faced, if left to their own devices, to survive on the streets of America. Many Americans yet in their teens, or barely in their 20’s were killed or terribly wounded in combat with Japan. Yes, that ethnic group was "disfavored" to the extreme and was at great risk.