Executive Order 9066: authorization of the War Department to move 120,000 Japanese Americans from the west coast to inland internment camps. These Americans lost their constitutional rights, businesses, and homes. Despite this policy, Japanese Americans remained loyal to the U.S.
Would you have supported the internment policy for Japanese Americans during the war? Explain and support your opinion by using specific examples (facts) to explain your position. (Please do not use the term Jap in your writing)
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I wouldn't have supported the internment policy for Japanese Americans during the war. Being an American we are all granted certain rights and i don't think it is fair for anyone to have these rights taken away due to there ancestral background. Although, i don't agree with the camps, i think that they were one of the only ways America can ensure that there were no Japanese spies. Also, the camps were not as bad as the Concentration Camps during the Holocaust. They were only established to ensure the safety of the country.
ReplyDeleteSo, I guess this blog sounds a little bit ridiculous because it is asking if we support putting harmless Americans into internment camps. I believe the answer to the question is of course i do not support the internment policy for the Japanese Americans. Not only is it a cruel act, but it resembles what happened during the Holocaust. Overall, there are no facts that I could think of for justifying the fact that they should have been detained. So, the reasons why they shouldn't have is because: they did not do anything wrong, and the opinions on them were completely racist. For example, California Attorney General Earl Warren put it, "When we are dealing with the Caucasian race we have methods that will test the loyalty of them. But when we deal with the Japanese, we are on an entirely different field." He based this off of his completely made up opinion that the Japanese Americans were somehow inferior to Caucasian Americans. So, overall, I 100% believe that no one should support the internment policy for Japanese americans during WWII.
ReplyDeletei do not support the internment act at all. its like olivia said, its almost like the holocaust. i understand what some Americans felt, but u dont think they should have done what they did. it would be lik the U.S>putting all middle easter people that live in the U.S. in internment camps just because their country bombed us. Did we do that? no.....or maybe we did and the U.S. is keeping it a secret.... like in the presidents secret book or something......... although the army does and did torture them.....maybe to much.. and some people in the army eve got in trouble for doing it.......Anyways, my point is we know better now, so we didn't do that. We were just trying to look out for our, the U.S., best interest though. we just didnt differently though. maybe took it a little too far. I think they shuld have done sort of what they do now. like impose, some times unnecessary, extra "random" security checks at air ports and other places that check all middle eastern people for bombs and what not. thay were just trying to look out for their best interest, like they are now. and im pretty sure that thats a natural right..... or a civil riight..... or in the magna carta or something.... and if it isnt, whatever its still a decent point.
ReplyDeleteOf course not. Like the whites, blacks, latinos, and etc inhabiting the US, they are US citizens as well. They deserve to be treated like citizens, not stripped of their rights just because theyre Japanese. That's like saying: Oh, well terrorists caused 9/11, so we should send all of their race in America to detention camps. A race doesn't make a person. Just because they're Japanese, it's not like they have some fiendish plot out to corrupt America. It's ridiculous, offensive, and cruel. Down right ignorant racism. There was no factor of protection here, these Japanese-Americans were neighbors, friends, townspeople, just like everyone else and should have been treated as so.
ReplyDeleteI am also Asian and a minority; I know how it feels to some extent. I would have definitely opposed to this order. No matter what the relationship between the US and Japan was at the time, those Japanese American people were innocent. The fact that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor did not make this act justifiable. This was an unreasonable act of prejudice, discrimination, and racism based on stereotypes growing out of the assumptions that the Japanese were disloyal. These people were stripped of their constitutional rights, businesses, and homes… and for what? They had not done anything wrong; the only reason they were being punished was for being themselves, being Japanese. At the internment camps, they were treated horribly in ridiculous conditions despite the fact that they were citizens just like everyone else. The Japanese Americans remained loyal to the US despite this order and served in the army... If such a brutal act had been casted upon the people of my ethnicity, personally I think I would have been very unhappy about it. This order was a direct order from the president, and it did not have to be passed by Congress. Even political leaders were portraying racism in their words and actions. California governor Olson publicly made a racist statement about the Orientals… “You know, when I look out at a group of Americans of German or Italian descent, I can tell whether they’re loyal or not. I can tell how they think and even perhaps what they are thinking. But it is impossible for me to do this with inscrutable Orientals, and particularly the Japanese.” That is shameful. Furthermore, this event occurred before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; what more could the Japanese bear? It is clearly wrong to judge an individual by his race. Also, one, or even a few hundred, does not represent the whole race. Unfortunately, this form of racism still exists today. One example is, as Alexa suggested, that hate crimes against the Middle Eastern people increased after the 9/11 terrorist attack. We never seem to learn; history… repeats itself.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have supported this because they are taking away there rights based on their ethnicity. If a Mexican man from America steals something from a shop, we don't take away his rights to being an American. Maybe at the time of the war it would be different, but at this time it would not be excepted.
ReplyDeleteI think that putting the Japanese Americans in internment camps was wrong because there were other options that could have been used instead. The American government could have just put them through psychological tests to find out if they were spies or not. Brandon is an idiot. Also, they could have let them stay where they were but put them under surveillance or something and take them in for questioning if they acted suspicious. By doing what they did, the Americans were essentially copying Hitler's treatment of the Jews. All in all, the American government's treatment of Japanese Americans was cruel and unfair.
ReplyDeleteputting Japanese Americans in internment camps was so wrong. Its like a religion/culture and punishing them for being who they are. Thats bullshit. Its almost like the halocaust but without the killing. It should of never happened and its just not right.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately do to prejudice times and the recent bombing of Pearl Harbor, i probably would be all for it. Although now i view it racist and completely unjust its the different times and beliefs that would make me think different. Like back in the 1800s in America i might have been prejudice against African Americans, its just depends in what time i am in...
ReplyDeletei would not have supported it at all. racism towards minorties is something that America is supposed to be fighting against, not performing. The United States Constitution states that all men are created equal, and Japanese Americans should not be treated any differently that all other Americans. Not only did this completely violate American ideals, but it somewhat resembled acts of the Holocaust. A minority was rounded up and discriminated against for virtually no reason. The government may have claimed that these Japanese restrictions were for national security, but i believe it was just pure racism. What we as Americans did to the Japanese people was unjustified and wrong.
ReplyDeleteI think it was a very bad decision. Racism towards minorities and just racism in general is wrong. During, I would not have supported the interment policy for the Japanese-Americans for a sense of security. But if you think about it the people at the camps were not being murdered or tortured and were provided with food water and shelter. But after learning about the Holocaust, it took away freedom and citizens right to live. Innocent people were being taken away from their homes and family, and it was not by choice. Obviously it was 100% unfair but sometimes people can't control was it going to happen.
ReplyDeleteno i do not think thihs is just or ok and i think it was a racist think to do. All of the japaneese americans that lost all of there privleges did nothing personly to america yet still got a harsh punishment like that. I do not think it was just and dont think america will do that again seing that its taking freedom from the people
ReplyDeleteThe policy pretty much promoted the idea that Japanese people are inferior to Americans, whether it was meant to do that or not. It was inhumane to take away their constitutional rights, especially when it is known that these people had nothing to do with the war in the pacific. Divisions and anti-Japanese groups formed during the War with Japan. The government should have promoted the idea that all Japanese-Americans were citizens that deserved to be treated like anyone else.
ReplyDeleteI don't think what they did was right. If I worked with the government, I wouldn't do it or agree to it. but i guess the people who work in the government can be paranoid during those kinds of situations and at the time, it would seem like a good idea. since there could be a "spy" here watching us from the inside and telling information to the outsiders. But i still don't think they should have done that at all.
ReplyDeletei think that the japanese have a right to live here and us putting them in camps was very disrespectful to all the store owners who got their stuff taken away and all the families that got thrown out of their own homes. i would not have supported our government doing that
ReplyDeletei don't not agree with this policy what so ever. its extremely degrading and completely ridiculous for our American government to do. they had lived in America for all or a good portion of their live and were American citizens. just because they were Japanese doesn't mean they're going to attack the us. im just glad the us has learned not to do this now.
ReplyDeleteI would not send any of the japanese americans to those camps for no excuse. Those people did nothing wrong and didnt deserve the harshness and also how only the japenese that lived on the west coast were taking away but not the japenese americans that live on the east shows a example of all the fear and prejudce back then.
ReplyDeleteNo I do not agree with this. Basically, it is asking if we support putting harmless Americans into internment camps and I definitely do not support the internment policy for Japanese Americans. It resembles what had happened in the holocaust and is cruel. I am surprised that our government even compromised on doing so.
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