The "for your own protection" justification for internment is possibly the worst thing about it
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"For some mysterious reason your neighbors fear and hate you and are committing hate crimes against you"
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"So to protect you from random, spontaneous violence we're going to commit an act of organized, institutional violence"
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I'd like to reiterate the vilest thing about this FDR getting a report that the camps had no national security impact, and tabling it
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Straight up saying they would not discuss ending internment until after the 1944 election had passed bc it was very popular in California
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(FDR was extremely paranoid about losing that election and thus losing the war)
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It kind of flips the script to portray FDR as a vicious scumbag coward and California as a wannabe apartheid state but there's the facts
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That's the part that burns, your Progressive Hero FDR didn't even really believe the camps were "necessary", just popular
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That's the whole thing, national security was less of an issue than white Californians' "economic anxiety" about Japanese immigrants
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Some people at the time accused whites of supporting internment for selfish reasons. In response, they gleefully admitted itpic.twitter.com/zGWsvFFR0d
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I did not start making fun of "economic anxiety" bc of this election. It has always been "economic anxiety" with these motherfuckers
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