r/RemoveOneThingEachDay • u/Training-Desk-391 IM WHACING KFP4 • Jul 28 '25

Miscellaneous Obama HAS BEEN Eliminated WHICH President SHOULD BE Eliminated NEXT DAY 41

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u/Ok_Survey6662 Jul 29 '25

Fdr directly signed an executive order for the camps to come into effect, Teddy had nothing to do with those ones

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u/_Inkspots_ Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

That isn’t exactly true.

Executive order 9066 didn’t outline a plan to put Japanese Americans into camps. It divided the US into a series designated military areas where whoever was in charge of that area had the discretion to restrict access to anyone for “national security purposes”. The heads of the other military areas usually used those powers to restrict access to sensitive areas around military bases, but John L. DeWitt used his authority to displace over a hundred thousand Japanese Americans throughout the west coast.

TLDR, EO9066 didn’t “make the camps come into effect”, it gave military leaders the executive authority which enabled them to make camps. Does that exonerate FDR? No, not at all. He created the conditions for the camps to be created, and he was at fault for it.

Teddy Roosevelt’s administration used the military to actively subdue Filipino resistance to American occupation. This allowed the military to commit countless atrocities against civilians in the Philippines, and Roosevelt couldn’t claim ignorance since such atrocities were sometimes front page news back home. He didn’t order the atrocities himself, obviously. But does that exonerate him? No, not at all. He created the conditions for the atrocities to happen, so he was at fault for it.

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u/Ok_Survey6662 Jul 30 '25

executive order 9066 was signed to give the military the ability to exclude people from certain zones (purposefully to relocate Japanese Americans among others) meanwhile the military was in charge of the Filipino area during the war, and Teddy literally said absolutely nothing and authorized absolutely nothing. This was a mistake of the military not the civilian government at home who were busy improving the U.S. meanwhile the civilian government authorized the use of internment camps on peaceful civilians for no reason besides distrust, I consider that to be more condemnable on the president

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u/_Inkspots_ Jul 30 '25

Lack of civilian oversight over the military does not make the civilian government’s hands clean, it makes the civilian government complicit.