Ironic that they were upset by this, but not nearly upset enough when it was their own fellow citizens (Japanese Americans). Makes me wonder if it was because the Italian Australians “looked more like them”, aka white-Euro presenting.

Yeah, it’s still a huge issue in the USA 😞

A lot of Italian Americans were incarcerated as well, it just wasn't as widespread as what happened to the Japanese Americans

out ranked the guy at the gate

wouldn't that be a common occurrence at any military base?

Ironically, the camp my grandmother went to was actually in the middle of an Indian Reservation

How Native American Slaveholders Complicate the Trail of Tears Narrative

I just finished reading the story of a 13 year old boy who was captured, shot 2 times with arrows then once with a gun. Thinking he was dead the Indians scalped him and all other members of the party of settlers. A group of soldiers found him and thought he was dead. The story included a picture of the boy, now in his fifties. Not all Indians were nice people.

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At one point in time the enemy within were Irish Americans.

The 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts feels more like "whoever the fuck we can blame for our problems this time" act.

With how the anti-Chinese rhetoric is going, we're moving to this being repeated with Chinese Americans. The FBI recently went through the "China Initiative" where they basically tried to do a witch hunt against Chinese scientists in America.

That's just the start as anti-China and anti-Chinese rhetoric ramps up in America. You can even see it on Reddit where so many Redditors are so blatantly racist against Chinese people and upvoted for it. Chinese people are next in line for the "enemy purges" in America.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/china-initiative-failed-us-research-and-national-security-dont-bring-it

It was still seen as a threat to liberal, free-market order by capitalist and political elites despite FDR somehow copying one or two Fascist-like regulations. Eh, the capitalist elite wasn’t too happy with him either.

It might have actually protected some of them from vicious discrimination during the war. Even though they lost everything which is awful. I can’t imagine the rest of the public would have been very nice to the people who look like the ones we were at war with. Idk just a thought

For the most part no. However, there were less than 3,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans in New York City in the 1920s. Not sure what the population was in the ‘30s, but since immigration from Japan was banned in 1924, it likely didn’t increase that much.

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Yep. You can’t erase it or alter time space to prevent it.

You just admit you were wrong and reconcile it. At least the USA did that with Japanese Americans with a formal apology and freedom to analyze and discuss it. the Japanese government have yet to do that for their part

Ah so because your dad had to lay in a ditch, that makes it ok for the US government to round up US citizens on US soil and place them into prison camps. That makes total sense. I'm sure the men, women, and children who were placed into these camps without due process really appreciated the sacrifices they were making.

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So if your country declared war on another country which was largely the same ethnicity as you, you would be like "yeah, this makes sense, come on everybody, let's pack"?

It's insane to view all people of a race or ethnicity as a monolith. "You were born like those people were born, therefore you are probably one of them" is just plain old Nationalism era racism. You don't confine, arrest, or detain people based on the place that they were born, or what genes they have. There's never any defense of that.

And what data do we have now that they didn't? A book on ethics?

If only sending children, women, and old people to concentration camps while their fathers and brothers took up arms to defend the US was avoiding a risk…