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It is not "counter to the narrative." It isn't like people only think that internment was unacceptable because there were literally zero cases of ethnically jap
by UncleMeat 3y ago
It is not "counter to the narrative." It isn't like people only think that internment was unacceptable because there were literally zero cases of ethnically japanese people doing something to aid anybody who was a japanese resident. It also isn't like people think that internment was done just for the sake of fucking over japanese people. The narrative is that the perceived threat of ethnically japanese americans was massively inflated in the minds of decision makers because of racial prejudice and that the legal system failed to protect the rights of the people who were harmed by this awful decision making.
Japanese Americans (including citizens) were first ordered not to leave the protected areas and then while that order was still active were told that if they stayed in the protected areas (which included huge portions of the west coast) that they'd be interred. They had their property stolen and were forced into terrible conditions (often sleeping in literally barns in the beginning) by virtue of racial prejudice.
Italian and German Americans faced no such situations, despite the ridiculous "oh we have no data so maybe they are threats" argument applying equally well to them.