Talk:In Defense of Internment

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[edit] Vote for Deletion

This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 02:50, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

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"Prior to 9/11, Malkin held a different opinion of the Japanese internment. In May, 2000, she wrote: "There is no denying that what happened to Japanese-American internees was abhorrent and wrong."" manner.

Yet the article nowhere says that the book called the internment right. If the book doesn't claim it was right, then claiming it was wrong isn't a different opinion.

If Malkin actually claimed the internment was right, then that seems like a rather large omission in the article. If Malkin didn't claim the internment was right, then the paragraph should be removed, since it's not a different opinion. And if you think Malkin claimed the internment was right, but can't directly say that in the article because you can't prove it to the satisfaction of Wikipedia, then you shouldn't be saying it in a roundabout If nobody produces a quote from the book stating that Malkin thinks the internment was right, I'm going to remove the paragraph. (Note that "some aspects of the internment that are commonly believed wrong were right" doesn't equate to "the internment was right".) Ken Arromdee 07:21, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I may add that the quote (only available at the Internet Archive now) is taken out of context. Malkin, in fact, was denying the connection between the internment and discrimination against Asian-American soldiers. She said the internment was wrong to emphasize that she was only disagreeing with one particular belief about it, not the whole thing. It's misleading to use this quote to imply that Malkin had no disagreement about the internment before September 11. Ken Arromdee 07:38, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

It's gone now. Ken Arromdee 16:05, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Ken, the book is actually quite confusing. Malkin seems to have many opinions, very few of which she sticks too. She defends the internment as founded on the MAGIC transmissions and fair. As John Herzig so deftly wrote in his article the MAGIC transmissions were shown only to about a dozen people. None of the people who fought in favor of internment had access to these transmissions, in fact the opposite is true. Stimson and McCloy had access and they were initially against the idea. On top of this Malkin presents an idea that the internment was fair because the other Axis races were treated with equal enmity. This is not true by a long shot. General DeWitt when questioned about Italian and German Americans stated “You needen't worry about the Italians at all except in certain cases. Also the same for the Germans except in individual cases. But we must worry about the Japanese all the time until he is wiped off the map.”(Personal Justice Denied,66) This shows the double standard that Malkin claims didn't really exist. --Monkeyman08854 19:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)