Robrob
Philosopher
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You're right. So let me try to explain it to you. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the people and government of the United States decided anybody with Japanese ancestry, both citizen and non-citizen, was a danger to the country. All Japanese Americans on the West Coast were eventually rounded up, forced to abandon all their possessions that they couldn't carry on their backs, packed into cattle cars, and concentrated in very small camps in the interior of the country. Short wave radios and cameras had been confiscated from the Japanese and the government didn't allow photographs to be taken of the round ups. What did the government have to hide?
Not that I am supporting what they did in any way but radios and cameras are things you don't normally allow in prisons. Why does that seem to surprise you?
Wild rumors about bizarre methods of execution involving bats and atomic fission sometimes were heard but the government never confirmed anything. There aren't any official US documents discussing the extermination policy. The camps in the east where the exterminations took place don't yield any evidence that the exterminations took place. Very few people have even looked for physical evidence of extermination and those who have haven't found any.
Fantasy.
At the end of the war, very few Japanese Americans could be found where they had been prior to the war. Hundreds of thousands never returned.
BS. Every single one of them could be located in whatever new place they lived. Their families knew what happened to them, they continued on with their lives. None of them were missing and none of them ever claimed any were missing. 100% accountability.
The conclusion: the United States official policy was the extermination of the Japanese and only a bigot would ask for evidence of that.
If you want to prove otherwise, you need to find all the missing Japanese Americans.
The "missing" that no Japanese Americans have ever said were missing in the first place?
I don't know where you found that ridiculous example but it makes no sense.
