| Final-Fan said: Worse =/= more racist. The degree of racism, it seems to me, depends on the degree to which racial hatred motivates the action in question, not just the amount of harm that is done. Even if you disagree, why did you ignore my obvious use of a different definition? You should have argued with my definition, not talked about the fact that greater harm to the individuals was done by internment, since I AGREED WITH THAT. It also seems to me that by your definition Hitler is countless times more racist than the KKK just because his murder campaign was that much more successful. |
Wrongful inprisonment that you couldn't get out of unless you joined the army against your will. I'd call that practically slavery. I'd say thinking the Japanese shouldn't be citizens is less racist then rounding them up and holding them in camps. Just how thinking Jews shouldn't be citizens and shouldn't hold jobs is less racist then outright killing them. Most Germans held the first view. Hitler held the second. As for the Holocaust. I'll put it this way. Hoover gave FDR plenty of reasons and evidence that there was no just cause that the japanese should be interred... even when his generals told him not to. Are you telling me that Hoover didn't go to FDR about the Holocaust? A much bigger and more serious thing that wasn't getting talked about? Though how is FDR not a bush that got lucky. How was Japanese Internment rapidly different from Guantanamo? Edit: For some reason my replies aren't spacing after i post them. Sorry about that.
