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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
Wed Aug 28, 2013, 09:18 AM Aug 2013

How to approve of interning Japanese-Americans in One Easy Step.

Just think like a child...

FDR has done good things, thus things FDR does are good.

Easy!

Saves a lot of wear and tear on the 'ole noggin.

And always make ideas about people because even the least intellectual of us still form judgments of people readily.

Someone says the Earth goes around the sun? You say, "Oh, so I am supposed to believe that you are smarter than Aristotle?"

Whoever you are talking to is most likely not smarter than Aristotle... so the sun goes around the Earth.


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How to approve of interning Japanese-Americans in One Easy Step. (Original Post) cthulu2016 Aug 2013 OP
So true. Puzzledtraveller Aug 2013 #1
Also the ole reliable "We're at war" justification. no_hypocrisy Aug 2013 #2

no_hypocrisy

(46,083 posts)
2. Also the ole reliable "We're at war" justification.
Wed Aug 28, 2013, 09:22 AM
Aug 2013

However, don't recall internment camps for German-Americans and Italian-Americans . . . . .

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