Pointless Revisionism

Because there was much discussion of the politician who screwed up on his history WRT internment camps, bloggers are spending an inordinate amount of time talking about things that happened more than sixty years ago. In the end this is foolhardy and counterproductive.

Yes, the internment camps were bad, and yes they were racist because the government singled out an ethnic group that was easy to identify instead of those of Italian or German descent. But in the end, so what?

The times were much different. After all, the Japanese then were a whole lot different than the Japanese of today, the latter being the way they are largely because of U.S. help in rebuilding that nation after the end of the war. But during WWII, when Japan was an ally of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, it was a whole lot different. It was Japan, after all, that bombed Pearl Harbor and got us into a war we were trying to avoid. But to the revisionists, that has nothing to do with the seeming hysteria of the American people towards the Japanese. We were bad, that's all there is to it, just like we were bad at bombing Japan at the end of the war.

Internment was bad, but so was slavery. And all of the revisionism in the world won't change a thing.

Revisionism makes me sick and is fundamentally dishonest because it ignores the context of the times. I thank God every day we had somebody like FDR and Truman at the helm, and God knows what the hell would have happened to this country if we hadn't.