Well said! One gets the impression from some folks around here that Bush is to be considered a traitor if he doesn't automatically treat Arabs like traitors. This kind of reflexive group-hate mentality led to the internment camps, in which a lot of loyal Americans spent four years merely because they were of Japanese extraction.
Well said! One gets the impression from some folks around here that Bush is to be considered a traitor if he doesn't automatically treat Arabs like traitors. This kind of reflexive group-hate mentality led to the internment camps, in which a lot of loyal Americans spent four years merely because they were of Japanese extraction.Also, such demonization of entire ethnic/religious groups is a twisted form of collectivism. I've always considered both conservatism and libertarianism to be ideologies that rejected all forms of collective judgement in favor of each individual standing on his or her own merits.
-Eric
What a horrible piece of illogic. Try getting your history straight before posting flat out lies.
The American people weren't SCREAMING at FDR to intern Japanese, he did that totally on his own. And not ALL Japanese Americans were interned. I'm not defending the internments, especially since I wasn't ALIVE and can't even judge the context for which it occurred (and you can't either), but your statements are way off base compared to reality.