Japanese Internment Camps Persuasive Speech

Most humans do not possess the strength to separate fears from logic and compassion. Fear, in itself, is something that can take over the human mind in ways that other emotions cannot. If we look back anytime during history, we can see populations committing atrocities that violate the very core values of humanity which makes us wonder “How can someone ever think or do something like this?” What many men and women fail to realize is they too may also do the same exact action if put into the shoes of citizens living in that moment. The common man could say easily that Hitler was a horrible human being but the common folk themselves elected him into the positon of a leader, allowing him to carry out his mass genocide. Even today in American society the loudest voices advocate for a ban on Muslims from entering the United States, which horrifyingly echoes a past where we stopped Asian immigration. Worse of all, the very enemy in which we were fighting used tactics we employed because of fear to those that were seen as enemies. In Germany, Europe and north Africa, people who were of Jewish decent were gathered in concentration camps and killed. In America, we avoided the mass killing happening across the …show more content…
(Adler 44) Dewitt’s reasoning and evidence for a Japanese uprising were looked into by both the FBI and by military investigators, who ultimately concluded that there was no basis for his claim. (Adler 44) Despite this however, Dewitt still promoted his fear mongering baseless claims, eventually even flat out saying that the Japanese race was “an enemy race”. (Adler 46) With the amounting pressure before him, Roosevelt had no choice but to use his powers as President to address the fears arising in the population. The one place where civil liberties were upheld, the Supreme Court, was the last saving grace for many Japanese