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Manzanar

After Pearl Harbor, Japanese born Americans from San Diego to Seattle, were taken from their homes and put into "internment camps".

This was based on suspicison.

Manzanar was the biggest and most infamous of all.


Is this hypocrisy on part of America?

https://www.nps.gov/manz/

The National Park Website(Manzanar is now a National Historic Site).

Manzanar

Of course this is hypocrisy, but its much worse than that. It shows that the US has a history of mistreating people and violating rights when they allow fear to dictate their judgement. In fact, that relates to today because it happens allot today with people that look arabic or muslim. The government tried to say no harm no foul, but the survivors from that time period say other wise. They say it was more like a concentration camp, not allowed to leave, poor living conditions, poor food, and lose of property and jobs. For them, its was mistreatment and discrimination, they were American citizens for goodness sake! When will America learn to stop treating people differently based on how they look or their nationality?

Manzanar History & Civil Business Politics

History is repeating.

First Andersonville, Then Manzanar now Guantanamo.

I think this relates to the politically correct topic.

The argument was :

Enemies are not human.

Which is so stupid, we are all human.

But politics get in the way.

Why did they elect Lincoln, we need to punish them.

Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, let's punish them

9/11 happened, let's punish them.

Punishment is important, impunity is indeed wrong, however, just to herd people based on a assumption which is based on a generalization is horrible and inaccurate.

But welcome to bureaucracy, everyone has to fit a mold.

You see it in school, which I call a "education mill".

Anyway who does not fit the "mold of normalcy", is suspicious.

It's power by generalization, which several tyrannical governments used, best example would be South Africa's apartheid regime.