ACTUALLY, GEORGE, IT WAS DEMOCRATS WHO INTERNED YOUR FAMILY. SO GIVEN YOUR POLITICAL LOYALTIES, SHOULDN’T THAT BE “WE,” NOT “THEY?” George Takei: They interned my family. Don’t let them do it to Muslims.Democrats are currently discriminating against Asians wanting entry to universities. Wake up George. Then take a look at Muslim countries around the world, and see how liberal they are.
Narrative: Never a substitute for actual thought.
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If Republican lawmakers didn't offer more than token objections to the Japanese internment, aren't they responsible for it too? Also Mr. Takei mentions in the article that Roosevelt was a Democrat and it happened under a Democratic administration, he's not omitted that in order to play partisan politics, so Glenn Reynolds didn't set the record straight at all, he simply repeated what Takei already acknowledged. It appears by "they" Takei was referring more generally to "unscrupulous politicians". Perhaps a correction is in order?
If the Trump administration is considering ignoring the various protections offered by the Constitution and Bill of Rights by creating registries or internment camps for Muslim citizens then he should be prepared for criticism, it's nothing less than an assault on the very liberties America claims it wants to defend.
The interment was done by Democrat Presidential executive order. The exclusion zone was approved by the US Supreme Court. Entirely outside the auspices of Congress, just the way Democrats like to do their deeds. Congress was heavily Democrat, and no legislation could possibly have stopped the Democrat initiated, approved interment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78th_United_States_Congress
Here's a relatively underrepresented fact: Many Japanese voluntarily relocated outside the designated exclusion zone. They were not interred. Those who refused to leave the exclusion zone were ultimately interred.
Fighting two wars in global warfare presents social upheaval. Whether the interment was justified is moot. It occurred in order to relieve the West Coast of the issue of possible internal war on top of the two global wars. Judging that to be racist is absurd, and derives from the modern Leftist paucity of reasoning beyond Marxist three class theory.
The fact is that the USA was Democrat controlled; blacks were isolated by Democrat Jim Crow racism; and a large number of Japanese-Americans served in the European theater, receiving numerous awards for their bravery.
It's not as simple as it looks to the casual, non-historical commenter.
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