Those Who Do Not Learn From History are Doomed to Repeat It “The management of opinions and attitudes by the direct manipulation of social suggestion.” Lynette Finch perfectly describes the word propaganda in her article Physical Propaganda: The War of Ideas During the First Half of the Twentieth Century. In simpler terms propaganda is used by the media or government to manipulate the thoughts of individuals to coincide include with their (usually) political agenda.Throughout the times humans have lived on the Earth some form of propaganda and war hysteria has always existed. Humans have had the primitive drive to seclude those who don't look similar to themselves. This has caused the human race to act on fear and misunderstandings rather
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In the 1988 apology, President Reagan formally apologies for the crimes committed by the government back in the Pacific War. In this apology, it was confirmed that the internment camps were nothing more than a result of war hysteria and racial prejudice. However Daniel Pipes, the author of the article “Japanese Internment: Why It was a Good Idea-- And the Lesson it Offers Today”, doesn’t seem to agree. The article cites a study conducted by Cornell University in which 44% of the Americans surveyed were in favor of the United States government registering muslim whereabouts, profiling muslims, monitoring mosques, and infiltrating Muslim organizations. This is eerily close to what happened to the Japanese back in the 1940s. Today, many non-Muslim Americans are starting to question the loyalty of Muslim Americans due to the growing power and influence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; more commonly known as ISIS. According to Daniel Pipes, the Japanese internment camps offer a simple solution to the problem of ISIS recruiting others from different countries. That would be to place Muslim americans into internment camps. Pipes further defends his statement of placing Muslims into camps by saying, “...in compensation for the supposed horrors of internment, to condemn in advance and use of ethnicity, nationality, race, or religion in formulating domestic security policy” (Pipes). This is saying that the natural rights of Muslims living in America are less important than National Security. This is most word for word what the Supreme Court in the 40s said about Japanese internment. Pipes then goes on to cite the Apology of 1988 saying, “ denying that the treatment of ethnic Japanese resulted from legitimate National Security concerns, this Lobby has established that it resulted solely from... wartime hysteria and racial prejudice” (Pipes).
In the 1988 apology, President Reagan formally apologies for the crimes committed by the government back in the Pacific War. In this apology, it was confirmed that the internment camps were nothing more than a result of war hysteria and racial prejudice. However Daniel Pipes, the author of the article “Japanese Internment: Why It was a Good Idea-- And the Lesson it Offers Today”, doesn’t seem to agree. The article cites a study conducted by Cornell University in which 44% of the Americans surveyed were in favor of the United States government registering muslim whereabouts, profiling muslims, monitoring mosques, and infiltrating Muslim organizations. This is eerily close to what happened to the Japanese back in the 1940s. Today, many non-Muslim Americans are starting to question the loyalty of Muslim Americans due to the growing power and influence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; more commonly known as ISIS. According to Daniel Pipes, the Japanese internment camps offer a simple solution to the problem of ISIS recruiting others from different countries. That would be to place Muslim americans into internment camps. Pipes further defends his statement of placing Muslims into camps by saying, “...in compensation for the supposed horrors of internment, to condemn in advance and use of ethnicity, nationality, race, or religion in formulating domestic security policy” (Pipes). This is saying that the natural rights of Muslims living in America are less important than National Security. This is most word for word what the Supreme Court in the 40s said about Japanese internment. Pipes then goes on to cite the Apology of 1988 saying, “ denying that the treatment of ethnic Japanese resulted from legitimate National Security concerns, this Lobby has established that it resulted solely from... wartime hysteria and racial prejudice” (Pipes).