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If the U.S. military and the federal government told me that they are going to incarcerate people of Filipino descent   and make them live in horrible conditions and if I was extremely racist I would probably be ok with it.

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So why weren't people disturbed by this?

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So why weren't people disturbed by this?

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The people who were ok with Japanese internment were pretty much the same people who (re)elected this guy

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Notice the price tags

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We have some evidence from the official phototographs done by contemporary photographers Ansel Adams...

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Were people oblivious to the internment or was there something else?

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If the military and the government said that it was necessary to incarcerate people of Filipino descent with no actualy evidence that they did something wrong, would I be ok with that? Still no.

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FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover actually denied spy activity and stated that there was no reduction of complaints about submarine activities after removal of people of Japanese ancestry

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What did they say about this "evacuation"?

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What did they say about this "evacuation"?

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"Evacuation does not imply individual disloyalty," "They are not under suspicion, they are not prisoners, they are not internees"

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or the government body in charge of the relocation:

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What if today I was told that the government decided to incarcerate all members of Filipino community (for example) in California with no explanation at all? I would have a problem with that.

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Would I be ok if people of Filipino descent were incarcerated because the military said that it was necessary? Still not good enough, obviously.

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This is what they said in Final Report of the Japanese Evacuation from The West Coast

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The military, a.k.a Western Defense Command

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In order to try to understand this decision, I decided to do a little experiment to relate to people in 1940s.

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Why did the US decide to incarcerate Japanese and Japanese Americans during WWII in order to address concerns about people of Japanese descent living on the west coast?